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African delegates lead a growing but indeterminate number of Davos delegates planning to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech Friday at the World Economic Forum.

The protest comes after Trump’s deriding African countries as “shitholes” in a closed meeting about immigration earlier this month in Washington.

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“Many of us will be boycotting your address to delegates at Davos in protest against your divisive comments and continued failure to unequivocally apologise,” wrote Davos attendee Boning Mohale, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa.

Some Davos delegates advocate standing and silently walking out Trump’s speech as a more powerful protest, Quartz reported Thursday. They are inspired by the dozens of students at the University of Notre Dame graduation who stood and exited during vice-president Mike Pence’s commencement address.

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Trump arrived in Zurich ahead of schedule Thursday and immediately boarded a U.S. helicopter for the flight to Davos, where the economic forum is being held. The approximately 40-minute trip took Trump over a snowy countryside dotted with houses, frosted mountains and a glistening lake. As Trump got off the helicopter, he gestured to aides who held him by the arms as he walked across the snowy landing zone to his waiting car.

While the president is expected to declare that the United States is open for business, the protectionist-leaning president’s attendance at the annual gathering for free-trade-loving political and business elites has raised eyebrows. His decision to sign new tariffs boosting American manufacturers this week has prompted fresh concerns about his nationalist tendencies.

“I’m going to Davos right now to get people to invest in the United States,” Trump said Wednesday before the overnight flight to Europe. “I’m going to say: ‘Come into the United States. You have plenty of money.’ But I don’t think I have to go, because they’re coming, they’re coming at a very fast clip.”