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Jan 21, 2026 - World

An MS NOW reporter was stunned following President Donald Trump's shift away from suggesting he would use military force to seize Greenland and his comments to world leaders on Wednesday. Ravi Agrawal described a full room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where people were anticipating hearing Trump's comments on the Arctic island, NATO and the future of the United States' relationship with European nations. "Gosh, I mean, a lot of people here calling it performance art, or maybe performance imperialism. This was a stunning speech, I've been to many Davoses over the last 15 years, I've never seen one speech that was this anticipated with this many hundreds of people trying to get in because they wanted to see in person Trump repeat the threats he has made on social media and add some balas to it."During the 90 minutes, the first 30 minutes were scripted, Agrawal said. And that he didn't bring up Greenland until the end. "Ever the showman, he knew that that is the only reason why people had come in to listen to him in the numbers that they did, and of course, he didn't disappoint," Agrawal said. "The points he made were rambling, he said that NATO has never done anything for the United States, which is absolutely untrue. The only time Article 5 of NATO has been invoked is to defend the United States after 9/11. And Greenland, Denmark, more than any other country, has lost more troops helping Americans more than any other country as a percentage of their population." People were curious if Trump would repeat his claims on social media in front of the world leaders. "These are facts that everyone in the audience knew about, but they were there to see whether Trump would repeat all of these lies in person and whether he would add some more weight to his threats," Agrawal said."The question now is whether European leaders will add some action to their words. I have to say I am seeing for the first time in a long time, European leaders really resolve in a strong way to do more than just words because they realize how serious this now is," he added.

Jan 21, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump lamented that he couldn't "screw" people whom he didn't like during a rant at the World Economic Forum.While speaking to CEOs in Davos on Wednesday, Trump bragged that companies were building plants in the U.S."It's amazing what's going on. Look, it's amazing. We've never had anything like it or close. Nobody else has it," he remarked. "I don't even ask anybody how you're doing now. It's like everybody is making so much money.""And we have so many people in this room that have done a job," he continued. "I said, you've doubled your net worth since I've been president, right? He said, yeah, even more than that. They would say even more. We're doing even better than that."But Trump's remarks took a turn as he spotted a few perceived enemies in the room."In a way, I'm jealous. In a way, I'm upset. There are a couple of people in the room," he said. "I can't stand them, and they've become very rich. There's nothing I can do about it.""I would screw them if I could, but I can't do it, right?" he added. "I can't do it. I would have had a chance, or I could just take them and say, you can't do what Apple's doing, but you're not allowed to do that, Newt Gingrich, right? We can't do it.""But I would love to do it, really, you know? It's one of those things, but everybody's making a lot of money."

Jan 21, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's effort to acquire Greenland backfired as the European Parliament stopped work on a trade deal with the U.S.While Trump was speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, confirmed that "the EU-US deal is on hold until further notice.”“Our negotiating team just decided to suspend work," Lange added in a social media post, "on the legal implementation of Turnberry deal. Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake. Business as usual impossible.”During his WEF speech, Trump ruled out using military force to take Greenland.

Jan 21, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump briefly said that he wanted to acquire Iceland instead of Greenland during a confusing moment at the World Economic Forum.While speaking in Davos on Wednesday, Trump insisted that "all the U.S. is asking is for a place called Greenland.""We've never asked for anything," the president said. "It's always a one-way street. Now they want us to help them with Ukraine.""But in doing it, I'm helping Europe, I'm helping NATO," he continued. "And until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right, last time? Very smart man said, he's our daddy. He's running it. I was like running it.""I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located."Trump argued that the land he was asking for was "a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.""But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%," he remarked. "They're not there for us on Iceland. That I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money."

Jan 21, 2026 - World

A former Republican congressman lamented President Donald Trump's "rupture" of the global order established at the end of World War II.The 79-year-old president has threatened NATO allies Denmark and Canada and angered European Union nations and other trade partners with his tariffs, and former GOP lawmaker Charlie Dent told "CNN This Morning" that he agreed with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, who warned that Trump's second presidency signaled the end of a rules-based order."What's at stake is the world order, and what is stunning to me that the United States of America led this world order," Dent said. "We helped create it, we developed it with our friends and partners. We made Europe a better place, peaceful, prosperous and whole after two world wars. This is an insult to the greatest generation that fought so hard to make make this world a better place, preventing great power conflict, and now we are throwing it all away – to what end? It is insane.""As the Canadian prime minister Carney just said, this is a rupture," Dent said. "This is not a transition. There will be consequences to this country economically, geopolitically, they're hedging against us. All these middle powers, and they don't, they they're de-risking from the United States as well as China. I mean, this is where we are."The former congressman said the president's moves made no sense from a strategic standpoint."You know, the president is not using tariffs to deal with unfair trade practices," Dent said. "He's using tariffs to coerce and bully other countries into an imperialistic territorial expansion of the United States. I mean, this is insane." - YouTube youtu.be