Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. All eyes were on the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump flew in for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and two days of – well, who knows? Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of Trump’s return to the White House, and Swiss newspapers agreed that predictability was not one of his many qualities. Swiss newspapers have assessed Donald Trump’s (second) first year as president. They’re not impressed, to put it mildly. “There’s a saying in the US: if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, it’s a duck,” Swiss public broadcaster SRF wrote on Monday. “Following this logic, Donald Trump is an authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler. The evidence for this is overwhelming.” In its analysis entitled “Trump 2.0, the ...
