Trump’s Davos speech shows influence of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s white identity politics
US president’s tirade against Somali Americans and insults to European leaders were of a piece with Miller’s worldview Donald Trump turned up in Davos wielding an insult bazooka. He mocked...
By David Smith in Washington · The Guardian World
US president’s tirade against Somali Americans and insults to European leaders were of a piece with Miller’s worldview Donald Trump turned up in Davos wielding an insult bazooka. He mocked Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses , chided Mark Carney (“Canada lives because of the United States”), asserted that the Swiss are “only good because of us” and had a dig at Denmark for losing Greenland “in six hours” during the second world war. But beyond the fractious rhetoric, the US president brought a deeper message on Wednesday that sought to unify the west rather than divide it. It was his most dark, insidious and sinister project of all. Continue reading...