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President Trump Highlights American Economic Strength at the World Economic Forum

January 23, 2026 · The White House · 0:01:10

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What happened

President Trump said he came to the year’s World Economic Forum with what he called truly phenomenal news from America, noting the previous day marked the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. After 12 months back in the White House, he said, the economy is booming, growth is exploding, productivity is surging, investment is soaring, incomes are rising, inflation has been defeated, and the previously open and dangerous border is closed and virtually impenetrable, according to his remarks.

Trump described the United States as in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in the country’s history. Under the Biden administration, he said, America was plagued by stagflation — low growth and high inflation, a recipe for misery, failure, and decline — but now, after just one year of his policies, the country was witnessing the exact opposite: virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The Davos highlights clip is the White House’s one-year economic verdict in the president’s own words — the turnaround claim against which subsequent jobs, inflation, and growth data are measured on this site.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Trump’s January 23, 2026 claim of virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth after one year, as stated at Davos, is a checkable claim flagged for the scoreboard editor.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Highlights American Economic Strength at the World Economic Forum”, 2026-01-23 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-01-23). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.