When President Donald Trump took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20th, he delivered a speech that was characteristically bombastic, tangential, and yet—beneath the noise—revealing of fundamental truths about the transatlantic relationship and the future of European power. To understand what Trump said requires the discipline to separate his inflammatory rhetoric from the substantive policy signals buried within it. First and foremost, Trump made clear that he wants a confident and strong Europe, not one that is becoming, in his words, more and more unrecognisable due to mass immigration from the non-Western parts of the world.
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