The fact that the folks at Davos feel the

[babylonsister]

need to show deference to this MORON has to be particularly galling, though most have more decency in their pinkies than this fucking bully has in his whole body. Let the fact checking begin.

[Bettie]

1. Well, it is a room filled with the very wealthy, extremely wealthy,

and the obscenely wealthy, so...

ETA: I mean, none of us could even so much as talk to most of these individuals, because the common folk don't even get within shouting distance of those types, at least in the US.

[choie]

2. I wasn't watching the proceedings

Are they showing deference?

[babylonsister]

3. They were showing respect to a guy who is

batshit cookoo bananas, so yes.

[choie]

4. Gotcha!

In my view, anything less than saying "fuck you" is showing deference to that orange bastard.

[Johonny]

5. Given the day before he left

He was threatening war to get Greenland, then landed there surrounded by the wealthy with the stock market tanking and completely folded like a house of cards... I'd say the wealthy played him for the chump he is.

Everyone has the book on Trump. He is weak as shit in every negotiation because he is completely readable and easily played. This is example one million of Trump caving when surrounded by actual bullies.