Trump denounces 'predictions of apocalypse' at Davos

U.S. President Donald Trump urged a packed forum at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday to "reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse."

At a conference in which the main theme is the environment, and in which climate activist Greta Thunberg is a star guest, Trump spoke about the economic importance of oil and gas.

Trump also said the U.S. would join the one trillion tree initiative being launched at the WEF annual meeting, but called activists "the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers."