At the glitzy gathering of global power players in Davos, one voice cut through the fog of corporate-speak and climate platitudes like a thunderclap. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the architects of globalization, didn’t mince words.
“The Trump Administration and myself, we are here to make a very clear point — globalization has failed the West and the United States of America,” Lutnick declared from the World Economic Forum stage on Tuesday. “It’s a failed policy.”
That sound you heard was the WEF champagne going flat.
Lutnick didn’t tiptoe around the room’s fragile egos. He delivered a full-throated defense of the America First agenda — a sharp rebuke to decades of policies that prioritized cheap foreign labor, offshoring, and borderless trade over the livelihoods of American workers. While the Davos elite nodded along in past years to ideas about shipping jobs overseas and building wind farms with Chinese minerals, Lutnick brought the reality check.
“The fact is, it has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind,” he continued. “And what we are here to say is ‘America First’ is a different model, one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first.”
The Commerce Department didn’t shy away from the moment either, posting the full video to X with the statement that they are “done” exporting American jobs. No hedging. No apologies. Just a line in the sand.
And Lutnick wasn’t finished.
Globalization has FAILED.
Secretary Lutnick at the World Economic Forum:
“The Trump Administration and I are here to make a very clear point—globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy… and it has left America behind.”
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Should the US prioritize an America First approach over globalization policies?— U.S. Commerce Dept. (@CommerceGov) January 20, 2026
With green energy zealots seated nearby, he turned his attention to the WEF’s climate agenda, openly mocking Europe’s blind commitment to net-zero targets by 2030. His mic-drop moment?
“Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery,” he said, drawing laughs and stunned silence.
His message was clear: chasing fantasy energy goals while becoming dependent on China isn’t just naive — it’s suicidal.
The body language from the other panelists said it all. Rattled, uncomfortable, and caught off guard by someone who wasn’t there to join the club — but to challenge it.
Lutnick’s performance wasn’t just a speech — it was a shot across the bow. And now all eyes are on President Trump’s upcoming appearance at Davos, where expectations are sky-high after his cabinet members’ unapologetic dismantling of the WEF’s sacred cows.
Global elites might want to buckle up.
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