Lutnick’s Davos Speech Was ‘Just Too Much,’ Lagarde Tells WSJ

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said she walked out of a speech by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the World Economic Forum because she found his anti-European rhetoric inappropriate given the setting.

“To have as a last speaker, without any rebuttal of any arguments, someone who just bashed Europe, right, left, and center. I thought it was just too much and just unnecessarily offensive,” Lagarde said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.