Niall Ferguson

We're here with a three or four time guest, one of my favorite guests.

And also I would, I'm going to go out on a limb here and call you a friend, a historian, public intellectual, and also people who know this about you, you're actually a pretty savvy entrepreneur.

Anyways, Neil Ferguson, always good to see you.

Great to be with you, Scott.

So we're here at Davos at the annual meeting.

By the way, I bet you've been to like 40 Davoses.

Do you come here every year?

Not every year.

I've rather lost count.

Yeah, but a lot.

It feels like 20 years on and off.

I would think you're very much an intellectual support animal for the Davos crowd.

So, I'll just simply put, you obviously just saw President Trump's talk.

Attack that from any angle you want or compliment it from any angle.

What are your observations around what he said here and how you think the mostly European audience is reacting to it?

And kind of set the table for us around this new world order or this new world vision, if you will.

Well, President Trump, as you know, is extremely good at leading the news, setting the agenda, and being the number one topic of conversation.

And he's done that extremely well this year by raising the issue of his claim on Greenland, which is carefully calculated as an issue to cause the heads of European leaders to explode, not to mention Canadian leaders.

So if the object of the exercise was to dominate the conversation

At the World Economic Forum, mission accomplished.