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Trump Says U.S. Will Have ‘Total Access’ to Greenland
President Trump told Fox News that the deal being negotiated with NATO over Greenland would give the U.S. “total access” to the island nation, including the ability to place a “piece” of his Golden Dome defense project there.
Trump also didn’t expressly deny the U.S. would “acquire” it.
Business Leaders Call on EU to Retaliate Against U.S.
“Tariff tensions have cooled after Donald Trump went back on threats to impose levies on European countries, but the threat of them had business groups saying that the EU should consider retaliatory measures against his ‘blackmail,’” CNBC reports.
Greenland Negotiations Resemble an Earlier Deal
“The negotiations over Greenland’s future center around building up a larger NATO presence, thwarting adversaries and giving the United States sovereign claim to bits of the island — a deal remarkably similar to an agreement that already exists,” Politico reports.
“The U.S. and Denmark already have a framework for Greenland: a 1951 treaty that permits some of what the new deal would likely include. That defense agreement allows the Pentagon to establish bases and send as many troops as it needs to the island after Copenhagen approves — which it has almost always done.”
Bloomberg: Trump’s NATO deal would mean U.S. mining and missiles in Greenland.
Voters Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE
“Roughly half of voters support President Trump’s deportations and his handling of the border with Mexico, but a sizable majority believes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone too far,” according to a New York Times/Siena poll.
“Fifty percent of voters said that they approved of the Trump administration’s deportations of people living in the country illegally, while 47 percent opposed them. The president’s handling of the southern border was viewed favorably by 50 percent of voters.”
“Just 36 percent of voters said they approved of the way ICE was handling its job, according to the poll, while 63 percent disapproved — including 70 percent of independent voters. And 61 percent of voters said that ICE had “gone too far” in their tactics, including nearly one in five Republicans.”
Elon Musk Is Diving Back Into U.S. Politics
“Elon Musk is opening his wallet and reigniting his political apparatus for the 2026 midterm elections, signaling a return to the political arena months after suggesting he would retreat to oversee his business empire,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The world’s richest man has already donated $10 million to a Republican Senate candidate this year, and his icy relationship with President Trump has thawed.”
The Newsom-Trump Showdown Heats Up Davos
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent his days at the World Economic Forum trying to portray himself as the antidote to President Trump. It didn’t always go smoothly,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“One of Newsom’s speaking events was scrapped without warning from the schedule at USA House, the official U.S. pavilion at Davos. He blamed the decision on the Trump administration, which didn’t deny the claim. A viral photo of Newsom posing at Davos with wealthy Democratic donor Alex Soros—who now leads his father George Soros’s philanthropic empire—served as a reminder of the governor’s ties to the moneyed Democratic establishment and drew ire from both the right and left.”
“His week highlighted the central challenge facing Newsom as he considers a run for president in 2028. He must present a sharp contrast with Trump while also distancing himself from a Democratic establishment that has fallen out of favor with voters.”
Trump Rescinds Canada’s Invitation to Join ‘Board of Peace’
“President Trump rescinded on Thursday his invitation for Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada to join his ‘Board of Peace,’ an organization that he had founded to oversee a peace deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza but that he has now tried to broaden into an institution to rival the United Nations,” the New York Times reports.
Trump 0, Europe 1
Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump and his team clearly went to Davos determined to demean and insult their hosts. It was, one might say, a novel approach to diplomacy: ‘You’re pathetic, your societies and economies are falling apart, now give us Greenland.’”
“And it worked about as well as you’d expect. Trump may have imagined that the Europeans would cower in the face of his wrath. Instead, they humiliated him. He dropped his latest tariff threats in return for a ‘framework’ that gave the United States essentially nothing it didn’t already have — and left behind a Europe that is finally united in resistance to his bullying.”
Corey Lewandowski Is Back for Another Year
“The most powerful man in the Department of Homeland Security, Corey Lewandowski, was supposed to work just 130 days last year because he was classified as a temporary government employee,” Axios reports.
“But thanks to creative timekeeping, he was there throughout the year. Now he’s poised for a repeat in 2026.”
Republicans Move Ahead with Midterm Convention
The RNC took its next procedural step toward holding a GOP midterms convention, Fox News reports.
Janet Mills Likens ICE to ‘Secret Police’
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) denounced on Thursday the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in Maine, likening federal officers to “secret police,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
Said Mills: “In America, we don’t believe in secret arrests or secret police. God, that goes back to the Magna Carta, doesn’t it? And it’s one of the foundations of our country and our Constitution.”
Washington Post: Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them.
Man Acquitted of Soliciting Murder of Border Official
“A federal jury on Thursday found a Chicago construction worker not guilty of charges he solicited the murder of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, delivering a swift repudiation in a case the Trump administration had held up as evidence of violence toward immigration officials,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Mark Kelly’s Money Bomb
Playbook: “As he increasingly flirts with a 2028 presidential run, Mark Kelly is winning friends up and down the ballot — if not influencing his Trump administration enemies.”
“In an effort to help flip the House and Senate in 2026, Kelly has strategically used his star turn as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Public Enemy No. 1 to ramp up his giving and fundraising to competitive candidates, party committees and state parties to the tune of nearly $5 million last year…”
“Kelly also made direct contributions to approximately 30 state parties, including in potential early nominating 2028 states like Iowa, Michigan, South Carolina and New Hampshire. He also made two trips to South Carolina and one trip to Michigan, along with travel to Nevada.”
Quote of the Day
“I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up, some of these things he’s saying. I think he may be in over his hairdo…. To say strange things like President Trump is a tyrannosaurus rex, what the hell does that mean? I can say Gavin Newsom is a brontosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut.”
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in an interview with Politico.
Trump Officials Plan to Deport 40 Iranians
“The Trump administration plans to deport at least 40 Iranian nationals back to Iran as early as Sunday, according to three sources with knowledge of the flight, the first known deportations to the country since President Donald Trump threatened its leaders over their treatment of protesters,” MS NOW reports.
Trump Demands Investigation Into Ilhan Omar
President Trump demanded on Thursday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (R-MN) be investigated for “political crimes,” Mediaite reports
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