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  1. Verstappen slams new cars as ‘Formula E on steroids’

    Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen ran his Red Bull for 136 laps on Wednesday, clocking the second…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #E.ON #'FormulaEonsteroids' #auto #E.ONSE #NewCars #Prix #slams #testing #verstappen
    europesays.com/germany/22267/

  2. Egypt slams illegal Somaliland ‘embassy’ inauguration in occupied Jerusalem

    Friday May 22, 2026 Photo courtesy of Egypt’s ministry of foreign affairs. Egypt strongly condemned on Thursday the…
    #Israel #News #egypt #embassy #illegal #in #inauguration #jerusalem #occupied #slams #somaliland
    europesays.com/3010458/

  3. Iran Slams EU over Hormuz, Rejects ‘international Law’ Claims

    Islam Times – Iran criticizes the EU over Hormuz navigation claims, accusing Europe of hypocrisy and asserting its…
    #Europe #EU #access #accusing #Amid #and #asserting #Claims #control #criticizes #EuropeanUnion #Hormuz #hypocrisy #International #Iran #Islam #Israeli #its #Law #Maritime #navigation #of #over #Rejects #right #Slams #tensions #the #Times #to #US
    europesays.com/europe/17076/

  4. Trump slams British PM over possible aircraft carrier deployment to Middle East

    misryoum.com/us/politics/trump

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! President Donald Trump on Saturday slammed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying he was joining the war in Iran after the U.S. has "already won.""The United Kingdom, our once Great...

    #Trump #slams #British #over #possible #aircraft #carrier #deployment #Middle #East #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  5. Marcus Coleman slams Congress over immigration rhetoric

    misryoum.com/us/politics/marcu

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! The father of a California girl who sustained a traumatic brain injury when an illegal immigrant commercial truck driver slammed into a vehicle she was riding in urged congressional lawmakers...

    #Marcus #Coleman #slams #Congress #over #immigration #rhetoric #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  6. Nikki Haley slams Democrats who say Iran regime was not a threat to America

    misryoum.com/us/politics/nikki

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed Democrats who claim that the Iranian regime was not a threat to the U.S., calling the notion "absurd.""It’s absurd for Democrats to say...

    #Nikki #Haley #slams #Democrats #who #say #Iran #regime #was #not #threat #America #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  7. Obama slams California homelessness as losing political strategy and he's right

    misryoum.com/us/opinion/obama-

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub MISRYOUM News articles! In one of the wealthiest places on Earth, thousands are living in tent cities on the streets of Los Angeles, an "atrocity" that even former Democrat President Barack...

    #Obama #slams #California #homelessness #losing #political #strategy #and #hes #right #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  8. DHS slams New Jersey bill targeting federal immigration enforcement agents

    misryoum.com/us/politics/dhs-s

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security slammed a new vulgar New Jersey bill aimed at punishing federal immigration enforcement in the Garden State, highlighting several victims of crimes committed by...

    #DHS #slams #New #Jersey #bill #targeting #federal #immigration #enforcement #agents #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  9. Following the killings, the youths of the town of Tamoun launched a demonstration and a general strike. Reports said the PA sent reinforcements to ...

    IQNA – A 16-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister were killed late Sunday when Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on the family vehicle carrying their father in the town of Tamoun, the West Bank.#Hamas #Slams #PA #for #‘Serious #Crime #After #Children #Killed #in #West #Bank #Operation
    Hamas Slams PA for ‘Serious Crime’ After Children Killed in West Bank Operation

  10. Following the killings, the youths of the town of Tamoun launched a demonstration and a general strike. Reports said the PA sent reinforcements to ...

    IQNA – A 16-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister were killed late Sunday when Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on the family vehicle carrying their father in the town of Tamoun, the West Bank.#Hamas #Slams #PA #for #‘Serious #Crime #After #Children #Killed #in #West #Bank #Operation
    Hamas Slams PA for ‘Serious Crime’ After Children Killed in West Bank Operation

  11. Following the killings, the youths of the town of Tamoun launched a demonstration and a general strike. Reports said the PA sent reinforcements to ...

    IQNA – A 16-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister were killed late Sunday when Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on the family vehicle carrying their father in the town of Tamoun, the West Bank.#Hamas #Slams #PA #for #‘Serious #Crime #After #Children #Killed #in #West #Bank #Operation
    Hamas Slams PA for ‘Serious Crime’ After Children Killed in West Bank Operation

  12. Following the killings, the youths of the town of Tamoun launched a demonstration and a general strike. Reports said the PA sent reinforcements to ...

    IQNA – A 16-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister were killed late Sunday when Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on the family vehicle carrying their father in the town of Tamoun, the West Bank.#Hamas #Slams #PA #for #‘Serious #Crime #After #Children #Killed #in #West #Bank #Operation
    Hamas Slams PA for ‘Serious Crime’ After Children Killed in West Bank Operation

  13. Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos

    As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.

    Listen to this article · 4:59 min Learn more

    Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek

    Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET

    President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.

    “I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”

    It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

    But rarely has the mocking been so overt.

    European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

    Early on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.

    Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb

    “Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.

    Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.

    When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”

    “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.

    He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.

    “I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.

    “Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

    Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.

    In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

    “Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”

    He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

    Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.

    As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    Tags: Bessent, Criticizes, Davos, Europe, European Nations, Greenland, Jeanna Smialek, Michael D. Shear, Slams, Switzerland, The New York Times, Trump, Trump 1.2, Trump Administration, Ukraine
    #Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine
  14. Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos

    As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.

    Listen to this article · 4:59 min Learn more

    Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek

    Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET

    President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.

    “I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”

    It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

    But rarely has the mocking been so overt.

    European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

    Early on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.

    Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb

    “Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.

    Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.

    When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”

    “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.

    He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.

    “I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.

    “Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

    Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.

    In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

    “Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”

    He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

    Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.

    As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    Tags: Bessent, Criticizes, Davos, Europe, European Nations, Greenland, Jeanna Smialek, Michael D. Shear, Slams, Switzerland, The New York Times, Trump, Trump 1.2, Trump Administration, Ukraine
    #Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine
  15. Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos

    As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.

    Listen to this article · 4:59 min Learn more

    Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek

    Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET

    President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.

    “I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”

    It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

    But rarely has the mocking been so overt.

    European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

    Early on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.

    Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb

    “Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.

    Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.

    When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”

    “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.

    He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.

    “I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.

    “Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

    Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.

    In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

    “Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”

    He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

    Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.

    As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    Tags: Bessent, Criticizes, Davos, Europe, European Nations, Greenland, Jeanna Smialek, Michael D. Shear, Slams, Switzerland, The New York Times, Trump, Trump 1.2, Trump Administration, Ukraine
    #Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine
  16. Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos

    As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.

    Listen to this article · 4:59 min Learn more

    Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek

    Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET

    President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.

    “I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”

    It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

    But rarely has the mocking been so overt.

    European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

    Early on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.

    Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb

    “Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.

    Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.

    When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”

    “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.

    He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.

    “I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.

    “Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

    Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.

    In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

    “Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”

    He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

    Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.

    As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    #Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine
  17. Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos

    As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.

    Listen to this article · 4:59 min Learn more

    Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.

    By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek

    Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET

    President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.

    “I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”

    It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

    But rarely has the mocking been so overt.

    European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

    Early on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.

    Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb

    “Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.

    Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.

    When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”

    “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.

    He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.

    “I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.

    “Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

    Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.

    In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

    “Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”

    He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

    Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.

    As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times

    #Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine
  18. Quentin Tarantino slams Paul Dano as ‘weakest male actor’ in Screen Actors Guild over There Will Be Blood

    Tarantino went on to describe Dano as “a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” complaining that Day-Lewis was let down…
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