Donald Trump agreed to attend Davos in January after organisers gave assurances that overtly “woke” topics would not feature prominently at the annual Alpine gathering, according to people familiar with the talks.
At a meeting in the autumn, Trump administration officials asked World Economic Forum officials to scrub or pare back unwanted agenda themes as a condition of the US president’s participation, multiple people familiar with the negotiations told the Financial Times.
Washington announced last week Trump would return to the Swiss event in person for the first time in six years. His last appearance was a virtual address days after his inauguration in January, when he called on the gathered business elite to make their products in the US or face tariffs.