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A Year Ago, Davos Thought Trump Would Be a Normal President
- “What somebody’s saying is not necessarily what they’re going to do"
- Predictions from 2017 were mostly wrong on dollar, stocks
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If there was one message that echoed through the mountains ringing Davos a year ago, it was that the business world could ignore Donald Trump’s tweets.
Once in office, Trump would act more like a conventional American president and his torrent of Twitter taunts would surely slow, according to many of the executives who gathered in the Swiss town for the World Economic Forum just as he was inaugurated in 2017.
The thousands of 140-character rants Trump has sent since then -- including one calling himself a "very stable genius" to defend his mental health -- show how wrong they were. The mostly male corporate and political personalities who descend on the Alpine resort each year don't have a great track record at foretelling the future.