Come out fighting

Speaking at a panel with other U.S. government officials during the World Economic Forum in Davos, [Transportation Secretary and Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao] praised the president for engaging with global leaders on economic policy by becoming the first sitting president in nearly two decades to attend the annual gathering of the world's wealthy elite.

“Davos should feel very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum,” Chao said during a session moderated by The Wall Street Journal. “Those who don’t want to listen to him can leave.”

  Politico

Like it or lump it, peasants.  Nothing like going to a forum for global elite economic unification with your back up before it even gets started.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump railed against free-trade agreements supported by many global economic leaders, a message he has reiterated as president.

Chao, speaking alongside House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, also brushed aside claims that Trump entering the White House has diminished the U.S. standing as a global leader.

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The transportation secretary also addressed the importance of the United States' diplomatic relationship with China. Borrowing the term “frenemy” to characterize the dynamic, Chao said while there were ample opportunities for the two countries to cooperate, they remain competitors in many other regards.

“There are issues that we can work with them on. There are issues that we need their help on. And we all know what those issues are,” she said. “And there will be other issues that we will be in competition.

Chao added: “With this major player transforming itself, it is creating tensions, and we have to readjust as to how we interact with one another.”

There are those who think Elaine Chao is a Chinese plant, and I have to say, I could easily be convinced of it. After all, who else would marry Mitch McConnell?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

It appears that indeed some attendees - members of the Business Leadership of  South Africa -have already stated they would boycott Trump's address on Friday to protest his remarks about "shithole countries."  Why do I think Elaine Chao would particularly be happy to have Africans "leave"?

It would actually be pretty awesome if the entire forum met elsewhere during that time period without telling the Americans.  Some day.  After we've completely destroyed our standing in the world and reduced ourselves to the equivalent of today's North Korea.