He's Not A Genius
Niall Ferguson’s glorious misreading of Trump’s Davos disaster is a lesson in the limits of intellectualism.
by Ben Cohen
If you listen to conservative historian Niall Ferguson, Donald Trump “won Davos hands down.”
The silly Europeans underestimated Trump’s genius and were too stupid to realize what the 9-dimensional chess player was really up to at the annual World Economic Forum last week.
Behind the incoherent rambling, the confusion over which North Atlantic island he was supposed to be annexing, and the bizarre attacks on Joe Biden, Trump was actually putting on a masterful display of American Alpha energy.
“I have never before seen a single individual so completely dominate this vast bazaar of the powerful, the wealthy, the famous, and the self-important,” Ferguson gushed on X.
According to Ferguson, the Greenland spectacle wasn’t an attempt to annex the Danish controlled island — it was a deliberate strategic misdirection.
The master tactician
Trump was never really interested in Greenland, he just wanted to turn it into a global …