-U.S. President Donald Trump will speak remotely at the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, and hold a discussion with business leaders including Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
The remarks, Trump’s first major speech to global business and political leaders, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Eastern time (1600 GMT), according to the meeting schedule.
Other participants in what is billed as a subsequent dialogue include TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne, WEF CEO Borge Brende and WEF founder Klaus Schwab.
Business leaders are eager to hear more about Trump’s concrete plans on tariffs, after he threatened broad import duties and suggested they could start Feb. 1.
Trump’s nationalist instincts have been on full display since he took office on Monday.
The newly inaugurated president has moved quickly to crack down on immigration, expand domestic energy production, and has threatened to impose steep tariffs on the European Union, China, Mexico and Canada.
Trump has also withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement. He says he will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, though other countries may not adopt the new name. He has also threatened to take back the Panama Canal from Panama.
He has pardoned more than 1,500 supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an unsuccessful effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, drawing outrage from lawmakers and police whose lives were at put at risk.
Trump is moving to dismantle diversity programs within the U.S. government and is pressuring the private sector to do so as well. That has left some in Davos searching for new words to describe workplace practices that they say are essential to their businesses.
(Reporting by Andy Sullivan and Lananh Nguyen; Editing by Michael Perry and Heather Timmons and Howard Goller)
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