“Davos Man Is Dead” – Trump’s EU Ambassador Slams Out Of Touch Elites
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 4, 2017
As prominent MEPs are slamming US President Donald Trump’s choice for ambassador to Brussels, RT’s Afshin Rattansi sat down with Ted Malloch for his personal views on the matter.
RT: The EU parliament is somehow trying to veto your appointment as the next ambassador to the European Union. What is your reaction?
Ted Malloch: They must not have got the notice that Donald Trump won the American election. Of course, ambassadors are chosen by their home countries to represent those countries and those national interests in foreign capitals, in this case, in Brussels.
RT: Is it symptomatic of the fact that European politicians don’t really understand their power relations with Washington?
TM: I think there is some sense of that. But there is also an inkling, particularly in some leftist political circles in Europe, to wish Trump away or to think that in four years they might have Obama back or basically to call me things like ‘malevolent’ which actually requires a theory of ‘good and evil,’ which they don’t have.
RT: How out of touch are elites continuing to be in European capitals and the MSM when it comes to Trump?
TM: I don’t think it is just Europe. It is certainly the case around the world. The Davos Man is dead. We had the Davos World Economic Forum the other week and of course they had a lot of has-beens there. The keynote speakers were all people who were leaving office, for example, US Secretary of State John Kerry. Xi Jinping was their poster boy for globalization, and in effect, China has been a beneficiary of globalization. The 300 million jobs that were created in China was a significant economic fact, but lots of those jobs were taken out of the hallowed places of Western Europe and Middle America.
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