“Over the past year, we have made extraordinary strides in the United States,” Mr. Trump said. The International Monetary Fund this week lifted its forecasts for American growth in large part because of Mr. Trump’s tax cuts. VideoBut Mr. Trump framed the tax cuts as a broad source of what will be better days for all Americans. And he gained the unbridled endorsement from the man who heads the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, whose eagerness to flatter his interlocutors is legendary. But many departed Davos with an enhanced sense that there might be more method to Mr. Trump’s fits of pique than they assumed.

Source: New York Times January 26, 2018 19:17 UTC