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A petition accusing Trump of "greed, corruption, and a lack of accountability in leadership," is approaching 100,000 signatures.
Donald Trump is expected to meet global business leaders in Davos on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. President's presence looms large over the annual gathering of the global elite in Switzerland.
The prime minister also tells the US president that security in the Arctic remains a priority "for all Nato allies".
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted on Saturday that under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it. The Trump aide belittled the Danish government, saying its “tiny” military was failing to adequately protect Greenland.
The Trump administration showed no signs of backing down. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that European leaders would eventually understand that American control of Greenland would be “best for Greenland, best for Europe and best for the United States.”
A CBS News poll conducted by YouGov between January 14 and 16 gave Trump a -38 point approval rating, with 31 percent approving and 69 percent disapproving of the president. The poll of 2,523 adults had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points.
The announcement Saturday night signaled an unusually direct effort by the White House to influence college football scheduling and television programming.
It comes after Trump vowed on Saturday to implement a wave of increasing tariffs from February 1 on EU members Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, until the U.S. is allowed to buy Greenland, a step major EU states decried as blackmail.
The troops have not yet been ordered to deploy, but the move signals a potentially more harder-line approach by the White House after President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell growing protests in Minneapolis.
The Nobel Foundation firmly rejected Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado's symbolic transfer of her Peace Prize to Trump, stating prizes cannot be passed on.
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Trump escalates Greenland standoff with allies, linking it to perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub
As his standoff with America's closest allies escalates, President Trump says not getting the Nobel Peace Prize means he's no longer obligated "to think purely of Peace."