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The world's economic outlook is "much more pessimistic" as a result of the war in Ukraine, warns Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, as the OECD slashes its 2022 growth forecast and projects higher inflation. SOUNDBITE
(CNN)US President Joe Biden will rightly spend his first days in office addressing the myriad domestic crises that he has inherited from his predecessor, Donald Trump. However, the transfer of power in the most powerful elected office in the world usually means a change in foreign policy, too. And if President Biden's inaugural address is anything to go by, the global focus for the next four years will chiefly be to restore the world's trust in America after the chaotic foreign policy of the one-term Trump administration.
On Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. complained about his father's being banned on Twitter. He is inviting his followers to sign up for his email blasts in case Twitter were to ban him, too. "Big tech is able to censor the President?" he wrote. "Free speech is dead & controlled by leftist overlords." Business Insider reports that Twitter allowed Trump to remain on the platform due to the newsworthiness of his posts. On Friday, he was banned after his followers' deadly attack on the US Capitol on Wednesday.
As the Trump administration begins to unravel, the political lives of golden power couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Washington are all but over. Now the question is, what has their time in the political spotlight has meant for their brand, particularly in their old Manhattan stomping grounds? According to CNN, while the couple remains wealthy, their financial obligations could factor into their post-White House decision making. Also, President Donald Trump insulted New York so often that the movers and shakers of the Manhattan scene are unlikely to forgive and forget. Sources say Ivanka Trump is considering her own potential political future. That may explain the more nuanced positions she has taken, in contrast to her brothers' strident remarks on immigration and alleged voter fraud.
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
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