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'None of This Is Normal': Trump Attacks Allies, Demands Control of Greenland in Rambling Davos Speech
"Our friends think we've gone insane and our enemies are celebrating."
Jan 21, 2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday used his closely watched speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to threaten longtime US allies and once again demand control of Greenland, a performance that alarmed observers.
During his Davos address, the president took a shot at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who on Tuesday made a case for creating a new system of international order outside of US hegemony.
"Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way," Trump said. "They should be grateful also but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday, he wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us, Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."
Trump: "The Golden Dome is going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of… pic.twitter.com/pL1F9nppbx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 21, 2026
Trump also once again falsely claimed that Greenland was a US territory, even though it has been recognized as a self-governing territory of Denmark for centuries.
"We need Greenland for strategic national security and international security," he said. "This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western hemisphere. That's our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America."
Trump: "We need Greenland for strategic national security and international security. This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western hemisphere. That's our territory." pic.twitter.com/PdAWZXdLAX
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) January 21, 2026
Although Trump claimed that he would not take Greenland by force during his speech, he still insisted that the US would take control of the territory, a demand the governments of both Denmark and Greenland have flatly rejected.
Journalist Spencer Ackerman warned mainstream news outlets to not emphasize Trump's claims to have ruled out starting a war to seize Greenland.
"If you're only reading headlines and see 'Trump Says He Won't Use Force' it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland," Ackerman wrote on Bluesky.
MSNOW columnist Paul Waldman also chastised the media for not conveying the unhinged nature of the president's speech.
"Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence," Waldman wrote. "He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping. The sanewashing headlines are going to say 'Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech.'"
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is also in Davos attending the World Economic Forum, was asked by CNN's Kaitlan Collins if he noticed that Trump repeatedly misnamed the country he was demanding be given to the US during his address.
"Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland?" asked Collins.
Newsom indicated that it did stand out before noting that Trump also made an absurd claim about power-generating windmills costing $1,000 per rotation.
"A lot of stuff stands out," Newsom emphasized. "None of this is normal... It's really some jaw-dropping and remarkable statements that just, you know, fly in the face of facts and evidence."
COLLINS: Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland?
NEWSOM: And that every time a windmill turns it costs $1,000. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normal. There's a deviancy of consciousness. He's graded off the… pic.twitter.com/eIJmDWiKTn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 21, 2026
Former Rep. Tom Malinkowski (D-NJ) said that Trump's belligerent address showed that Europe's attempts to appease the president for the last year have been a failure.
"I get why foreign leaders have tried to flatter Trump," he wrote. "But the problem is that flattery reinforces his delusions that what he's doing is working, that America is more respected, when in fact our friends think we've gone insane and our enemies are celebrating."
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UN Warns 'Era of Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here—But It's Not Too Late to Act
"We cannot rebuild vanished glaciers or reinflate acutely compacted aquifers," the report's lead author said. "But we can prevent further loss of our remaining natural capital."
Jan 21, 2026
Overuse and pollution is causing "irreversible damage" to Earth's water, prompting a United Nations body to declare this week that the world has entered an "era of global water bankruptcy"—and to underscore that it's not too late to minimize the damage.
The report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (UNU-INWEH) notes that "across regions and levels of development, water systems are under unprecedented pressure," as "rivers, lakes, and wetlands are degrading, groundwater resources are being depleted beyond sustainable limits, and glaciers are retreating at accelerating rates."
"These trends signal not only growing stress, but in many contexts a structural imbalance between water demand and available resources," the publication continues. "This report refers to this condition as 'water bankruptcy' and calls for effective action to protect water-related natural capital before damages become fully irreversible."
UNU-INWEH defines water bankruptcy as “persistent over-withdrawal from surface and groundwater relative to renewable inflows and safe levels of depletion" and "the resulting irreversible or prohibitively costly loss of water-related natural capital."
Water bankruptcy differs from water stress, which "describes conditions where demand and withdrawals are high relative to available renewable supply" and "may be managed through efficiency, recycling and reuse, demand management, and careful allocation so long as the underlying natural capital and hydrological carrying capacity are preserved."
The report explains that "many societies have not only overspent their annual renewable water 'income' from rivers, soils, and snowpack, they have depleted long-term 'savings' in aquifers, glaciers, wetlands, and other natural reservoirs."
The results range from compacted aquifers and subsided land in deltas and coastal cities, to vanished lakes and wetlands and irretrievably lost biodiversity.
The report's release precedes next week's high-level preparatory meeting in Dakar, Senegal ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, which is set to be co-hosted by the United Arab Emirates and Senegal in the UAE this December.
“This report tells an uncomfortable truth: Many regions are living beyond their hydrological means, and many critical water systems are already bankrupt,” lead author and UNU-INWEH director Kaveh Madani said in a statement Tuesday.
The news isn't all bad—the report notes that "the world has an important and still largely untapped strategic opportunity to act."
The authors recommend a "new global water agenda" that:
- Formally recognizes the state of water bankruptcy;
- Recognizes water as both a constraint and an opportunity for meeting climate, biodiversity, and land commitments;
- Elevates water issues in climate, biodiversity, and desertification negotiations; development finance; and peace-building processes;
- Embeds water bankruptcy monitoring in global frameworks, using Earth observation, artificial intelligence, and integrated modeling; and
- Uses water as a catalyst to accelerate cooperation between the UN member states.
The report also recommends practical steps to mitigate water bankruptcy, including:
- Preventing further irreversible damage such as wetland loss, destructive groundwater depletion, and uncontrolled pollution;
- Rebalancing rights, claims, and expectations to match degraded carrying capacity;
- Supporting just transitions for communities whose livelihoods must change;
- Transforming water-intensive sectors—including agriculture and industry—through crop shifts, irrigation reforms, and more efficient urban systems; and
- Building institutions for continuous adaptation, with monitoring systems linked to threshold-based management.
“Bankruptcy management requires honesty, courage, and political will,” said Madani. “We cannot rebuild vanished glaciers or reinflate acutely compacted aquifers. But we can prevent further loss of our remaining natural capital, and redesign institutions to live within new hydrological limits."
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Saint Paul Toy Store Subjected to Surprise 'Audit' Hours After Criticizing ICE in TV Interview
"ICE is doing far more to hurt our community than immigrants ever have," a co-owner of Mischief Toy Store said last week, hours before ICE agents delivered audit papers.
Jan 21, 2026
A toy store in Saint Paul is facing its first audit of its employees in more than 27 years of operating after one of the shop's owners spoke out about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's aggressive arrests in the Twin Cities and detailed how the business is helping to protect immigrant neighbors.
Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall spoke last week with ABC News about how her family-owned store, Mischief Toy Store, has been giving out 3D-printed whistles to help community members—following the lead of people in Chicago last year—to warn their neighbors when ICE and other federal agents are in the area.
The whistles were designed to be "a nonviolent form of protest and alert everyone around that there's ICE activity going on," said Adelsheim-Marshall. “Everyone is looking for anything they can do to help their community right now.”
She added that her community is being "terrorized by ICE" and said demand for the whistles has risen following an ICE agent's killing of Renee Good.
"ICE is doing far more to hurt our community than immigrants ever have," said Adelsheim-Marshall. "Almost every customer who comes in tells us about encounters they've had with ICE."
Hours after the interview, in which an ABC News correspondent noted that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) referenced the use of whistles to warn about ICE operations last week in a social media post, two ICE agents arrived at Mischief Toy Store and delivered an audit notice to co-owner Dan Marshall, Adelsheim-Marshall's father.
Marshall and Adelsheim-Marshall were given three business days to turn over federal I-9 forms to prove their five Minnesota-born part-time employees were hired legally, as well as payroll records, tax returns, and other documents.
"We feel very strongly that we were targeted based on the content of Abby's interview that day," Marshall told the Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday, as the deadline for the audit approached.
Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, agreed and said the DHS audit appeared to be "immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime."
Mark Jacob, an author and Chicago-area journalist added that ICE's targeting of the toy store offered proof that "it's not about making Minnesota 'safe'—it's about making Minnesota subservient."
A bottomless well of vengeance.
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— Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 (@rygraham.bsky.social) January 21, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Last year, the Mischief owners joined a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs and Marshall spoke in a TV interview about how the president's trade was causing anxiety among small business owners.
Following the news of the DHS audit, the Adelsheim-Marshall family and their community have not been deterred from coming to the defense of their neighbors—including the toy store itself.
On Saturday, the day after the ABC News interview and the audit delivery, Marshall told the Star Tribune that the store "sold 250 anti-ICE yard signs in the first three hours that we were open."
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