Trump news at a glance: president reveals the snub behind his Greenland ambitions | Trump administration
An extraordinary text message exchange between Donald Trump and the Norwegian prime minister revealed that the US president no longer felt “compelled to think only about peace” because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and that he again refused to rule out taking Greenland by force.
The disclosure of the exchange with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre comes amid a concerted campaign by Trump to seize the territory, a largely autonomous part of Denmark. In recent weeks, he said the United States would take control of the Arctic island “one way or another” and, over the weekend: “Now is the time, and it will be done!!!” »
On Monday, he told NBC News that he would “100 percent” continue with his plan to impose tariffs on the country’s allies, and blamed Norway for denying him the Nobel Prize. “Norway totally controls it despite what they say. They like to say they had nothing to do with it, but they had everything to do with it,” he said.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a private body made up of five members – mostly retired politicians – appointed by the Norwegian parliament but whose decisions are independent of the government.
US needs ‘complete and total control’ of Greenland, says Trump
In his text message to Støre, Trump said Denmark “can’t protect” Greenland from Russia or China, adding: “Why do they have ‘property rights’ anyway? There are no written records, just that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago.”
The US president said he had “done more for NATO than anyone since its founding, and now NATO should do something for the United States.” The world “is not safe until we have complete and total control of Greenland,” he said.
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European industry denounces Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ Greenland demands
European industry has hit back at the US president’s “ridiculous demands” to cede Greenland or face a trade war.
Bertram Kawlath, president of the German engineering association VDMA, urged the EU to confront Trump. “If the EU gives in, it will only encourage the US president to make another ridiculous demand and threaten new tariffs. »
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“Make America Go Away”: Maga parody caps gain popularity
The red baseball caps parodying Donald Trump’s Maga hats have become a symbol of Danish and Greenlandic defiance against his threat to seize the territory.
Caps reading “Make America Go Away” – satirizing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – have gained popularity, along with several variations on social media and at public protests, including a weekend protest held in freezing weather in Copenhagen.
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Noem discusses refusal of ICE pepper spray in Minneapolis
Kristi Noem first denied that federal agents were using chemical agents against protesters, then, after viewing video footage, she blamed the protesters themselves, as tensions continued to run high amid the Trump administration’s influx of federal agents into Minneapolis.
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Second man dies in Texas ICE detention center in two weeks
A second man detained at a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas has died within two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday.
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, from Nicaragua, was found “unconscious and unresponsive in his room” on Jan. 14 at the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, ICE said in a news release.
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Almost all Epstein files still unpublished one month after deadline
The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Justice Department was required to release all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by December 19, 2025, with rare exceptions.
However, a month after that deadline imposed by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, the department has failed to comply with that law, raising questions about when — and if — authorities will ever release investigative materials on the deceased sex offender.
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Putin invited to join Trump’s Gaza ‘peace council’, Kremlin says
The Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin had been invited to join Trump’s “Peace Council,” created last week to oversee a ceasefire in Gaza. The Kremlin spokesperson told reporters on Monday that Russia was seeking to “clarify all the nuances” of the offer with Washington before giving its response.
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