The scenario of a new candidacy of Donald Trump for the White House gained weight this week with his first success in the Republican primaries. The future elections in November are logically on the agenda of the debates of the main leaders of the planet and the business world who will meet in Davos this week.
Precisely on this occasion the French president of the European Central Bank (ECB) was questioned on the American economic news channel. Bloomberg this Wednesday.
Between two questions about interest rates and the economic situation, the journalist asked the former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) her opinion on the American elections.
However, after a few seconds of reflection, she put on her central banker’s hat (little versed in political commentary in general) to formulate a more appropriate response. Like Emmanuel Macron during the press conference this Tuesday, Christine Lagarde recognized that it was a choice of the American people “but that we were all concerned because the United States has the largest economy, the largest army and has been a beacon of democracy, with all its advantages and disadvantages.”
Lagarde-Trump at odds
As head of the IMF, her relationship with the former US president was, to say the least, hostile. On several occasions she had publicly criticized the protectionist measures adopted by Donald Trump, without naming him. When she left the United States to take the helm of the ECB, she believed that the former president’s policies and the trade war with his partners had harmed global growth.
We create scenarios: “what if…”, “what if…”, “what if…” and we try to think about what to do. “We must be strong as Europeans and not wonder who our friends are in the world because that changes all the time.”
At the beginning of the primaries, the polls on the final victory are undecided, although the majority gives the businessman a slight advantage over Joe Biden.
Source: BFM TV
