Adam Tooze

I think it's these differences within the Trump coalition.

We're seeing it here at Davos.

They did an event for the cheering shroud under the headline, the world's first selfie was Jesus.

This is good.

In America's Pavilion, which is celebrating 250 years of the United States, they got Gillian Tett, the anthropologist, ex-editor of the FT, to preside over an American-hosted event on the Turing Shroud.

There's that element.

And then there's Donald Trump really wanting to, because I also feel Donald Trump loves, he kind of likes, he likes Scotland.

He loves the glitz of Paris.

He can tell.

He appreciates good guilt work and he knows you can't get it in the US and they have it in spades in Paris.

And his mate Macron, who's a bit of a player, actually kind of digs him, which is why he's saying like, Donald, what's wrong?

What are you doing in Greenland?

I don't understand.

But I think there is a faction in the Trump, which is really down the East European, Hungarian side.

It was so interesting hearing the Chinese vice premier today who gave the Chinese calm and they have these extraordinarily technocratic senior politicians.

I literally sat and took a note, Yvonne, which was they have this idea of the flow and the tide of history.

And the Chinese have this intact, coherent, modernist kind of vision.

And if you do Trumpy things, the real problem with them is not that they're bad or wrong.

It's just they're out of keeping with the time and history will punish you.

And this obviously is just completely disintegrated in the Trump camps.