“The Same Old Talking Points”: Expert Assesses Trump’s Speech in Davos

Political strategist Mykhailo Sheitelman said that Trump’s speeches have turned into Putin-style performances: rambling, not answering questions, and criticizing Europe, Politeka reports.

He wrote about this on his blog.

“It was a rather incoherent speech; the answers to questions weren’t actually answers to the questions. He spoke like a broken record, repeating the same talking points he’s been using for a year now. I realized why I felt so bad, why I couldn’t watch it—because it felt like I was watching Putin’s ‘Direct Line’ or his address to the Federal Assembly. For the first time, Trump’s speech and Putin’s speech lined up for me, separated only by a comma. As if one starts a sentence and the other finishes it: we’ve never had such oil and gas production, gasoline prices dropped again to $1.90. I’ve already heard all of this in Trump’s addresses. And the facts are slapped together haphazardly, impossible to verify,” Mykhailo Sheitelman claims.

The only difference, he explains, is that Putin speaks to an audience where no one will say anything back to him, while Trump was speaking in Davos. As the expert notes, the Davos forum is not a UN meeting but a commercial event—you have to pay to get in, it’s very expensive, and very serious people attend.

The only positive point, he says, is that after his speech Trump received rather weak applause, because he was being listened to not by Americans but by Europeans—to whom he was explaining that Europe is heading in the wrong direction, that everyone survives only thanks to the United States, which supports everyone. He criticized the EU’s official policies on the green energy transition, migration, and the economy.

“Some American comes along and starts telling Europe that you’re all idiots. He wasn’t speaking in a stairwell. By the way, in an alley he’d have gotten his face punched in. If he’d gone to some drunks in a back alley and said, ‘You’re drinking wrong here. You’re still drinking out of an eyeglasses case, when the whole civilized world has invented plastic cups,’ he’d have been beaten up and told, ‘Get lost and preach in your own building. We have our own laws, our own rules, our own folk traditions.’ But this is the World Economic Forum—intelligent people can’t behave like drunks in a back alley,” Mykhailo Sheitelman concludes.

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