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Robert Tait in Washington

Disaster averted at Davos but world ever vulnerable to capricious Trump’s whims

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The US president in Davos this week. With Donald Trump, any perceived gain may turn out to be a mirage. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

So deeply embedded in the realm of reality television is Donald Trump’s presidency that trying to apply any orthodox diplomatic measures of win or loss to his rumbustious appearance in Davos this week seems superfluous.

With his compulsive addiction to high-octane political drama, Trump had already achieved the improbable even before his arrival on Wednesday; transforming the normally somnolent Swiss Alpine resort into a unlikely setting for a high-noon confrontation with the US’s supposed European allies over Greenland.

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