The Man Who Shrinks the World
How Trump forces global institutions to erase climate and equality to protect his fragile worldview.
The World Economic Forum in Davos bills itself as the place where global leaders confront humanity’s biggest challenges, climate collapse, geopolitical instability, runaway inequality, runaway technology, and the need for planetary boundaries. But this year, the headlines aren’t about the big themes. They’re about one man: Donald Trump. And not because he’s bringing ideas. But because he’s once again bringing conditions.
According to Financial Times reporting, Trump agreed to attend Davos only after the organizers gave private assurances that the program would downplay or scrub altogether the topics he finds most offensive: climate change, diversity, women’s empowerment, international development, and anything else that might suggest the world is made up of more than one person and it is not, in fact, him.
Davos had to promise not to be Davos.
