Former Defense Department official Graham Allison and columnists Walter Mead, Allison Schrager, and Ian Bremmer comment on the return of Donald Trump during a panel at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: GRAHAM ALLISON,

President Donald Trump declared the end of state-sponsored censorship in the U.S. during remarks Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Davos: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again.

During a speech to the World Economic Forum on Thursday, President Donald Trump pressured the Saudi Crown Prince to increase his planned $600 billion investment in the U.S. "to a round $1 trillion" and to lower the global price of oil.

During a Q&A Thursday with the World Economic Forum, one of the panelists asked President Trump about China: "We know that you called President Xi Jinping last Friday..." President Trump corrected: "He called me,

Donald Trump will make an online appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, addressing global elites amid mixed reactions to his second term. His trade policies, climate accord withdrawal, and Panama Canal claims have sparked significant discussion.

DAVOS: Surrounded by snowy mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the world’s rich and powerful rub shoulders at Davos, with only one man dominating their chats: US President Donald Trump. “This year, the elephant is in the room,” quipped Graham Allison, professor of government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

In 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — winning applause as he inveighed against protectionism and declared that a trade war would hurt both sides.

David Blackmon Organizers and attendees at this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, had to have been shocked at the new tone from the United States after four years of subservient obeisance from Joe Biden and his ineffective emissaries.

World leaders and business executives left the Swiss mountain resort of Davos after a week of discussions dominated from a distance by Donald Trump's return as U.S. President.

As the week wrapped up, depressed Europeans got a much-needed boost from BlackRock boss Larry Fink, who told the final WEF panel that there’s too much pessimism around the Continent.

As The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland unfolded over the last week, each day marked an important stride in the global business and political landscape.

We are closing our live coverage of the 2025 Word Economic Forum in Davos. Goodbye. Al Hassaina Mosque on December 3, 2021, and the mosque after its destruction in an Israeli strike during the war, in Gaza City, January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Mahmoud Al-Basos