Adam Tooze

Well, just Trump in general.

If it hadn't been Greenland, it would have been the Fed.

If it hadn't been the Fed, it would have been Venezuela.

But because the forum, though it is a global organization, has its heart beating in Europe, this really comes home here.

And we're just waiting as a series of buildups for Trump's promised arrival tomorrow afternoon.

God knows when.

The whole place will be in chaos all day long.

But we've had Besson.

I had Lutnick.

We've had Macron, the Chinese vice premier.

Right.

We've had von der Leyen.

The gossip is that he was high as a kite, to be absolutely honest, and he came across that way.

I mean, he was jolly.

It was a disinhibited speech.

It was crazy.

He made a reference to dick size as whether or not this was going to be like this was driving it.

He told him to fuck off.

It's wild.

So then I had the pleasure, it turned out, of hosting Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, and his embarrassed analogs, Rachel Reeves, who's the UK Treasury Secretary, and Minister Champagne of Canada.