Gabby Morrongiello reports for the Washington Examiner on President Trump’s message to those attending the Davos summit.
“In all his meetings, the president hopes to increase economic opportunities for the American people and to find new ways to reform international and regional organizations to make them more effective and more accountable,” White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters on Tuesday.
The roundtable will occur just over a month after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law, legislation that is expected to make American companies more competitive globally by lowering the corporate tax rate to 21 percent. Trump is expected to tout passage of the historic tax reform bill, among other accomplishments from his first year in Washington, throughout his time at Davos. Cohn said the president will “remind the world that he has made America very competitive” and share what more he hopes to achieve during the remainder of his first term.
“America first is not America alone. We’re part of a world economy, and the president believes that,” Cohn said, adding that Trump will emphasize the need to eliminate “artificial” barriers and ensure every country is abiding by international law.
But the administration’s accomplishments are just one aspect of what Trump hopes to discuss. Both Cohn and McMaster said the president will renew his call for closer cooperation on his administration’s goal of denuclearizing North Korea and emphasize U.S. efforts to counter and expose Iran’s aggressive agenda in the Middle East.
