Trump touts his views in speech to Davos forum

User interview on Fox News to hammer his perceived foes

By: Philip M. Bailey
Francesca Chambers
Swapns Venugioal Ramaswamy
and Marina Pitofsky
USA today

..... President Donald Trump said on Thursday [01/23/2025] that the "Golden Age" of America had begun and that the country was "back and open for business" while addressing the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
..... Trump, who joined via video, said he declared a national energy emergency "to unlock the liquid gold under our feet and pace the way for rapid approvals of new energy infrastructure."
..... "The United states has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we're going to sue it," he said.
..... He also said he was going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. He connected energy to the ware in Ukraine, which is coming to the end of its third war.
..... "If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine War would end immediately," he said. "Right now, the price is high enough that the ware will continue. You gotta bring down the oil price. you gotta end the war."
..... The speech to Davos followed Trump's first sit-down interview form the Oval Office with fox News Sean Hannity, which was broadcast Wednesday [01/22/2025] evening. The president discussed his political comeback and his deluge of executive orders while continuing to hammer old enemies.
.....Trump prophesied at his inaugural address that :national unity" would return. But much of this week [01/20-24/2025] has seen the returning president continue to pummel out-of-power foes.
..... Trump said it will be "a lot of work" to undo form President Joe Biden's decisions and hat many insight should not have happened during the Biden years.
..... "We wouldn't have inflation, we wouldn't had the Afghanistan disaster, we wouldn't have October 7 [2023] in Israel where so many people were killed and you wouldn't have a Ukraine war going on," Trump said.
..... Trump told Hannity that many of the challenges facing the U.S. are"solvable" but that it will take :time, effort and money, unfortunately." He did not get into specifics.
..... "We can get our country back, but if we didn't win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever," he said.
..... hannity peppered the president with questions on several issues. Among them: the future of TikTok using troops to enforce the law at the U.S.-Mexico border and there reason he pardon supporters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago.
..... Biden exited the White House issuing a series of preemptive pardons due to fear of reprisals by Trump administrator. Among those blessed with a clean slate were several members of Biden's own family, such as his son hunter Biden, who had been accused of influence-peddling.
..... "This guy went around giving everybody pardons," Trump said. He then suggested Biden erred by not giving himself a get-out-of-jail-free card.
..... "The funny thing, maybe the said thing, is he didn't give himself pardon," to do with him."
..... Hammity eventually brought up Trump's own decisions on his first day extending pardons and clemency to roughly 600 people charges in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including top members of two right-leaning militia groups.
..... Trump described those convicted in glowing terms while glossing over violence against law enforcement officers. he repeated again, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen.
..... Alis on his first day in office, Trump took executive action to give TikTok a 75-day reprieve from a U's. ban after it defied bipartisan legislation to cut ties with Chinese parent company ByteDance.
..... To Hannity, Trump pushed back on security concerns about the app.
..... "You're dealing with a lot of young people," asking whether it was important for China to be spying on "young kids watching crazy videos."
..... Off-air, Senate committee approvals rolled in for some of Trump's top personnel picks.
..... The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines to approve Scott Turner as Housing and Urban Development secretary. The former pro football player ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump's first term.
..... Doug Collins, a former GOP lawmaker and Trump's pick to run the department of Veterans Affairs, picked up nearly full support in the Senate Veterans affairs Committee, rejected only by Senator Mazie Hirono D-Hawaii.
..... The Senate Energy committee gave its approval Thursday [01/23/2025] to Trump's Energy department nominee, oil industry CEO Chris Wright. Three Democrats and on independent joined Republicans to back him. The committee also OK'd former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum as interior secretary. Hirono and senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon voted no, Public Work committee approved Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Senator Mark Kelly, D- Arizona, was the only Democrat in favor.
..... All must now clear a final vote in the full Senate.

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