Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says being booed by Al Gore at an elite World Economic Forum dinner in Davos was the greatest honor of my trip to Davos.
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Lutnick, appearing on Fox News with Jesse Watters, described an invite-only gathering of global elites where his blunt critique of globalism and the Davos agenda drew a hostile reaction from the environmental scion, according to Mediaite. The secretary said his remarks were based on an op-ed he authored criticizing the failures of globalism and the World Economic Forums left-leaning orthodoxy.
So at the end of this lefty basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end, said Lutnick. Then I give a three-minute talk, and I just talked about my op-ed. He recalled that his brief speech, challenging the progressive economic dogma so popular in Davos, immediately shifted the mood in the room.
He continued, laughing as he relived the moment when his remarks finally pierced the polite veneer of the globalist crowd. And at the end of my talk, one person out of the two hundred yelled out, Boo! So I look over and Im like, Who booed?' said Lutnick. And its Al Gore! And I look at him, I go really? And he goes, Boo.'
Watters laughed along as Lutnick mocked the former Vice Presidents long record of climate alarmism and doomsday predictions. It was the greatest honor of my trip to Davos, he said. I mean, whats better than Al Gore incapable of discourse, incapable of anything. And you all remember Al Gore told us, by today in 2025, the whole ice cap would be gone, and Greenland would be green.
Lutnicks comments were provocative enough that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde reportedly walked out, and the high-end dinner was cut short before dessert, Reuters reported. In a statement to Mediaite, Gore acknowledged he heckled Lutnick but insisted he was not alone.
I sat and listened to his remarks, Gore said. I didnt interrupt him in any way. Its no secret that I think this administrations energy policy is insane. And at the end of his speech, I reacted with how I felt, and so did several others. The clash underscored the widening divide between a populist, America-first energy agenda under President Donald Trumps legacy and the climate absolutism that dominates gatherings like Davos.
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