US President Donald Trump’s Air Force One is returning to base after a technical snag. He will fly to Switzerland’s Davos to attend the World Economic Forum in a back-up aeroplane.
US President Donald Trump’s Air Force One on Wednesday turned around to return to base after developing a technical snag.
Trump was on his way to Switzerland’s Davos to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) when the aeroplane turned around to return to Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC. He is scheduled to address the WEF on Wednesday.
Without going into the specifics, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the crew identified “a minor electrical issue” and is turning around out of an abundance of caution, according to CNN.
After returning to Joint Base Andrews, Trump is expected to go to Davos in a back-up aeroplane, as per the report.
Open-source flight-tracking data showed that the Air Force made a turn over the Atlantic Ocean near Montauk, New York, near the easternmost tip of Long Island, and is expected to return to Joint Base Andrews at around 11 pm local time, the report said.
At Davos, Trump is expected to reiterate his intention to occupy Denmark’s Greenland — forcefully if required. He is also expected to double down on the coercive campaign against Europe that has ranged from tariffs to support of far-right and neo-Nazi parties in various countries to oust moderate elected governments.
In the latest salvo in the campaign, Trump has slapped Denmark and seven other European countries with a per cent tariff for opposing the American occupation of Greenland. He has threatened to raise the tariff to 25 per cent if they would not hand over Greenland to the United States by June.
In last year’s speech at Davos, Trump had set the tone for his second term. He had trashed European countries and Nato and had praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. In the next few months, while he launched an all-round coercive campaign against Europe, he aligned his administration with Russia and entered into a ‘G-2’ deal with China, essentially carving out the world into spheres of influence.
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