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muriel_volestrangler

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10. "A smattering", the Guardian says
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 02:52 PM
Wednesday
The good news headline from Donald Trump’s trip to Davos was that he seemed to rule out force for now in his urgent quest to acquire Greenland. The bad news: he started talking about Iceland as well.
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The president’s cognitive functions have been a source of concern for some time, but although Trump acknowledged he was now one of the older people at the Davos forum, he insisted he didn’t feel old.
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It was a speech sprinkled with the overt racism that has increasingly become part of the president’s shtick. He repeated a slur against Somali Americans as social benefit cheats, based on a largely debunked “investigation” by a far-right YouTuber.
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The speech dwindled to a halt and there was a smattering of applause from a gathering that was glad just to have been schooled for admitting migrants into their country and backing renewable energy, rather than witnessing a full-on declaration of war on the stage in front of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/trumps-rambling-davos-speech-rehashes-warped-ideas-of-us-supremacy

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