President Donald Trump is taking a Swiss victory lap, claiming that he has single-handedly revitalized the World Economic Forum with his tax-slashing and regulation-cutting policies.
‘The cutting of the regulations was every bit as important as what we did with the tax cuts. But you put them both together, and we have a dynamic country again,’ the president said in a CNBC interview that aired Friday morning.
‘I mean, everybody’s talking. I just came out and some really wonderful people said, “Davos has never been like this.” This is like walking into the Academy Awards, except we have more photographers.’
”This is like walking into the Academy Awards, except we have more photographers,’ Donald Trump told CNBC of this year’s World Economic Forum
Trump got a rock star reception in the Swiss Alps, and credited his economic policies that slash business regulations and cut taxes
Like a red carpet: A crush of journalists and gawkers showed up to see the Trump show as the president arrived to deliver a speech in Davos on Friday
The president told reporters at the event’s main conference hall that the ‘tremendous crowd’ had largely come to the Swiss Alps to witness the Trump phenomenon up close.
‘It’s a crowd like they’ve never had before at Davos,’ he said.
Trump boasted that his supply-side economic package has drawn CEOs back to the United States following years of job losses and economic stagnation.
‘Toyota’s coming in. We talked already about Apple. Apple’s coming in with a very big presence. We have many companies – Chrysler is coming in, leaving Mexico and coming back to Michigan,’ he beamed on CNBC.
‘I mean, how good is that? When was the last time you heard that?’
Journalists and curious onlookers have trailed Trump everywhere, including at Zurich’s airport
None of it would have happened, he said, ‘without me being here, and without what we’ve been doing, including regulation [cutting].’
‘Businesses couldn’t even, they couldn’t do anything!’ he said, explaining why his administration has peeled back 22 regulations for every new one since Inauguration Day.
‘They were totally bound. You’d have to get 16 different approvals from 15 different agencies. … It was impossible to do business.’
Trump has attracted huge crowds wherever he goes in Switzerland, including a crush of news photographers and groups of Swiss onlookers at the Zurich airport.