• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Sadly misinformation - not only did they roll out a literal red carpet, but this meme was from one second before the video feed pans over to the crowd waiting for him at the motorcade.

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      18 days ago

      Not counting workers and secret service that looks to be about 10 people. Isn’t that mostly going to be his staff or reporters. No “Welcome Mr. President”.

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        17 days ago

        Isn’t the point of Davos that there is almost nobody there to “meet” anybody?

        Reporters and the event organizers are all you’ll get.

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        17 days ago

        Don’t know the makeup of the crowd (the footage I found cuts away a few seconds after this), but he was at shaking hands with at least the person in that screenshot.

        edit: another angle, again unfortunately low quality.

        further edit: he's behind the car in the alternate angle I found, so no better idea of who he's interacting with or for how long - however several people have vaguely greeting-a-dignitary body language. If they're staff or not I'm not sure, it's just too low quality and nobody has published an itinerary (that I can find) and the multiple reporters we can see have yet to release any images (again that I can find)