Trump on Greenland:
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that.”
“Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh, good.’ That’s probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force,” Trump said. “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.”
“I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark, tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory, and the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. We’re a great power.”
Speaking at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
Canada PM after new tariffs aim for Greenland support
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. … We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at World Economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
Storms coming this week
“I think people are underestimating just how bad it’s going to be.”
— former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue, now a private meteorologist.
ICE raid in St. Paul
“ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing. They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone and everyone in their path. It is unacceptable and un-American.”
— St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, a Hmong American, in a statement about the arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who said he was taken at gunpoint by masked agents who led him into the street in his underwear in subfreezing conditions.
“Usha and the baby are doing well.”
—Social media post announcing Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance, is expecting her fourth child in late July.
Newsom to world leaders
“It’s time to stand tall and firm and have a backbone. I can’t take this complicity of people rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. … Trump is a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you, one or the other. You need to stand up to it.”
—California Gov. Gavin Newsom talking to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The Great Britsh Bake Off
After nine series and judging more than 400 challenges, I have decied to step down as a judge on The Great British Bake Off.”
— Dame Prue Leith announcement on Instagram.
Trump text to Norway PM
Dear Jonas [Gahr Store]: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
— Trump released texts sent between him and several European leaders.
It started with TikTok
TikToker Romeo to the company that owns Dr. Pepper in a caption on her TikTok video of her jingle for Dr. Pepper, which got 42 million views in less than a month:
“Please get back to me with a proposition, we can make thousands
together.”
Company reply:
“hold on. … you might be onto something”
The jingle aired Monday in a new Dr. Pepper commerical.