by Glenn Reib at X
Listening to Donald Trump speak at the World Economic Forum wasn’t just another political speech. It was a correction. For decades, people everywhere have been fed the same lie: that government is the engine of wealth, prosperity, innovation, and stability. That if power is centralized enough, regulated enough, taxed enough, and managed by the “right” global experts, life will somehow improve for everyone. It hasn’t. And it won’t.
Government doesn’t create wealth. It redistributes it, often inefficiently, often corruptly, looking at you Timmy, and almost always upward. The bigger government grows, the more control it demands. The more control it demands, the fewer people benefit. That’s not capitalism failing; that’s bureaucracy doing exactly what it always does: consolidating power while pretending to protect the people it burdens.
The private sector is what builds. It risks. It innovates. It competes. It fails, learns, and succeeds again. Every meaningful advance in living standards came from individuals and businesses free enough to create, not from committees, councils, or global panels insulated from consequences. That’s why so much wealth ends up in the hands of the few under expanding government control, not because markets failed, but because markets were smothered. Power didn’t disperse. It concentrated. And as national governments weaken under regulation and debt, unelected global institutions quietly move in to “help,” nudging the world toward centralized governance no one voted for.
What made this moment different, what made it uncomfortable for the room, was that Trump didn’t ask permission. He didn’t flatter the audience. He didn’t speak in the polite language of managed decline. He told them, plainly, that nations must put their own people first, that sovereignty matters, and that prosperity comes from empowering citizens, not governing them into submission.
And then he talked about Greenland, not as a punchline, not as a stunt, but as a strategic reality. Security. Trade routes. Resources. Geography. Adults-only conversation. While the media mocks it, Trump framed it exactly as leaders should: nations think in decades, not headlines. The Arctic is opening. Power vacuums don’t stay empty. Pretending otherwise doesn’t make it noble; it makes it stupid.
Ronald Reagan used to speak this way. He believed it. He articulated it beautifully. Trump has something Reagan never had: leverage, and the willingness to use it. He doesn’t just describe free-market principles. He enforces them. Through trade, tariffs, negotiations, and unapologetic pressure, he forces theory into practice. He compels results. And that’s why no one alive has witnessed a presidency like this, not in America, and not on the world stage.
This isn’t about personality. It’s about power being returned to where it belongs. People don’t struggle because freedom failed. They struggle because it was taken from them, slowly, bureaucratically, and “for their own good.”
And for the first time in a very long time, someone stood in front of the world’s most powerful unelected voices and said: No. We’re not doing this anymore. History will remember that moment. Whether the world learns from it is the real question.
And now, predictably, the left is screaming “25th Amendment” because Trump is doing too much, moving too fast, breaking too many comfortable illusions. Spare us the outrage. This isn’t instability; it’s leadership. Imagine Joe Biden trying to do half of this. He couldn’t finish a sentence, let alone reshape the global conversation. And imagine cackling Kamala, word salad, buzzwords, and that annoying smirk, trying to stand in that room and command anything resembling authority. She wouldn’t be reshaping the global conversation; she’d be confusing it. That contrast should tell you everything you need to know.
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