Key Highlights
- President Donald Trump credits Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the one for training him to become a diplomat, comments that come as Rubio has increasingly secured more responsibility and influence over the president during the second Trump administration.
- Trump described Rubio’s guidance as he described his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and shared an anecdote about how Xi requested that Trump stop referring to COVID-19 virus as the "China virus." According to Trump, Xi requested that the president use a different name – an ask that Trump said he chose to respect."I decided to do that because why should we have a problem over that?" Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday.
- "You were a true diplomat, huh?" said Børge Brende, the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum.
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- President Donald Trump addresses a gathering of global business executives on Jan.
