{"id":197718,"date":"2026-01-22T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-at-davos-president-rambles-backs-down-and-touts-future-deal-on-greenland-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:23:02","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-at-davos-president-rambles-backs-down-and-touts-future-deal-on-greenland-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-at-davos-president-rambles-backs-down-and-touts-future-deal-on-greenland-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: at Davos, president rambles, backs down and touts \u2018future deal\u2019 on Greenland – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump told Davos attendees the US won\u2019t use military force to take Greenland but demanded \u2018immediate negotiations\u2019 \u2013 key US politics stories from Wednesday 21 January at a glance
It was quite a day in Davos.
Donald Trump began his time at the World Economic Forum Wednesday with a rambling, <\/a>racism-drenched<\/a> speech in which he attacked European leaders and reasserted his demand to acquire Greenland<\/a>. But hours later, the US president backed down and eased off his threats to impose tariffs on several allied nations, claiming he had reached \u201cthe framework of a future deal\u201d concerning the US\u2019s involvement in the Danish territory.
The threat had prompted widespread apprehension; criticism from senior European politicians, who declared they \u201cwill not allow ourselves to be blackmailed\u201d; and warnings from economists.
Trump cited a \u201cvery productive\u201d meeting with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, but did not share many details about the \u201cdeal\u201d he touted as a win for the US and its interests.
In an interview the same day with CNBC, Trump said that a deal would include Nato\u2019s involvement on his sought-after missile defense system known as the \u201cGolden Dome\u201d, and well as \u201cmineral rights\u201d for the US.
Though official details are not being shared yet, the New York Times, citing unnamed senior officials, reported<\/a> that military officers from member states of the transatlantic alliance discussed a compromise through which the US would be granted sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland.
How do Denmark and Greenland feel about this? Some lawmakers pushed back on Trump\u2019s narrative.
In an interview<\/a> with Sky News on Wednesday, a member of Denmark\u2019s parliament, Sascha Faxe, said \u201cthere can\u2019t be a deal without having Greenland as part of the negotiations\u201d.
\u201cSo it\u2019s not real negotiations,\u201d Faxe added. \u201cIt\u2019s two men who have had a conversation.\u201d
The US will not hit Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland with tariffs of 10% from 1 February after all, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump\u2019s recent obsession with Greenland, after the US toppled the regime of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela, has rattled global officials in recent weeks. Trump claims that Denmark owes Greenland to the US because it helped defend the territory during the second world war, which has been debunked<\/a>, and that the US needs the territory for national security purposes.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
After months of denials, the Trump administration<\/a> has acknowledged in a federal court filing that employees working for Elon Musk\u2019s supposed cost-cutting operation accessed and improperly shared Americans\u2019 sensitive social security data.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that he had agreed to join a US-backed \u201cboard of peace\u201d proposed by Donald Trump, despite his office having earlier criticised<\/a> the composition of its executive committee.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in a state of medical distress is being deported from Atlanta<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon, a human rights attorney said, pleading for emergency assistance for his client.
\u201cWe are trying to get her the medical attention she needs immediately,\u201d said Anthony Enriquez, vice-president of US advocacy and litigation at the Kennedy Human Rights Center, whose client, Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, is on the verge of being sent to Colombia.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Theranos<\/a> founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked Donald Trump<\/a> to commute her sentence after she was convicted of defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9bn, a notice on the US Department of Justice website showed.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> has begun another targeted immigration crackdown, sending a surge of federal personnel to Maine, an ocean fishing state, in a plan dubbed by the government Operation Catch of the Day.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
US supreme court justices appeared skeptical of Donald Trump\u2019s case for firing a Federal Reserve governor on Wednesday, in a key test of the president\u2019s power \u2013 and his administration\u2019s battle to exert greater control over the US central bank.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
In a victory for the Trump administration<\/a>, the eighth US circuit court of appeals on Wednesday granted <\/a>the justice department\u2019s request for an administrative stay of a preliminary injunction<\/a> issued last Friday by Judge Katherine Menendez.
That order would have prohibited ICE agents from retaliating against peaceful protesters, arresting or detaining people who are participating in peaceful protests, using pepper-spray or similar non-lethal munitions and crowd-dispersal tools, as well as stopping or detaining drivers without reasonable cause.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A US judge temporarily blocked federal prosecutors on Wednesday from reviewing material seized when the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter\u2019s home<\/a><\/strong>.
A former employee of the Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/strong> who was fired after video circulated of him on a date criticizing the agency\u2019s head, Kristi Noem<\/a>, sued the department, alleging the termination violated his first amendment rights.
The California Republican party has asked the US supreme court to block a redistricting measure voters approved in November<\/a><\/strong> that would flip up to five House seats in Democrats\u2019 favor.
Speaking of redistricting, New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong>, handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat before this fall\u2019s midterm elections.
The office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, said his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos was canceled under pressure from the Trump administration<\/a><\/strong>.
House Republicans <\/a>advanced a resolution on Wednesday to hold former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress<\/a><\/strong> over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the prospect of the House using one of its most powerful punishments against a former president for the first time.
A vast winter storm is set to descend across much of the US starting on Friday<\/a><\/strong>, sweeping snow, ice and brutal cold across nearly 2,000 miles from the south-west to the east coast and affecting more than 200 million people.
Mexico\u2019s president Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a> has defended the latest transfer of 37 Mexican cartel operatives to the US as a \u201csovereign decision\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, as her government strives to alleviate pressure from the Trump administration to do more against drug-trafficking groups.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Tuesday 20 January<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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