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Conservative columnist Ross Douthat said there are two ways to react to President Donald Trump’s “latest spurt of mad-king behavior, as he tries to bully and meme his way to the acquisition of Greenland under the threat of a trade war if not a real one.”“The first reading is straightforward: This is malignant narcissism flavored with insane Nobel Peace Prize-related self-pity, the usual Trumpian unfitness magnified by the excitement of his Venezuelan intervention and the vicissitudes of old age, with the entire NATO alliance imperiled by the

Ahead of President Donald Trump's appearance at this week's annual meeting of world leaders and business executives in Davos, Switzerland, many European leaders are reportedly determined to use the meeting to dissuade the president from his attempts to claim Greenland for the United States.That's according to CNN business editor-at-large Richard Quest, who told host Erin Burnett that European officials have been strategizing about how to confront Trump when he arrives at Davos. Burnett played a clip of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from Davos, in which he call

Georgia state economist Robert Buschman always delivers an economic forecast to legislators before they debate funding bills, but the outlook he delivered this week with fresh numbers from President Donald Trump's economy was not pretty.“Georgia’s top economist projected slow job growth and persistent inflation in the year ahead as many Georgia families struggle to make ends meet,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), adding that Buschman said surveys show consumers and CEOs to be “pessimistic about the economy.”Buschman note

Officials in President Donald Trump's administration have accused both Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of "domestic terrorism." One legal expert says is arguing that phrase is being used for a specific reason.In a Tuesday interview with Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern, Julia Gegenheimer — a former attorney in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division who is now a special litigation counsel at the

Bulwark Congressional reporter Joe Perticone reports that Republican elected officials, GOP operatives and staffers, military officers, and chiefs of staff “seem to never learn” that handing over their loyalty to Trump meaning nothing.“Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is the latest to realize this only after the president’s knife has been embedded firmly in his back,” Perticone wrote.On Saturday, Trump followed his grudge and endorsed MAGA-aligned Louisiana state representative Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy in the Republican primary.“Should she decide to enter this Race, Julia Letlow has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump

President Donald Trump frequently justifies his claim that that the United States is the "hottest country in the world" by pointing to the stock market. But markets and investors disagree – and say Trump is the reason.The New York Times reported Tuesday that the S&P 500 Index (which is made up of the 500 largest companies in the U.S.) dipped by more than two percent by the end of trading, marking the biggest one-day drop for the index since October. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX volatility index —

Even as President Donald Trump labored to sell confidence in the U.S. economy at his pre-Davos speech the hard math at the bottom of news screens appeared to troll him.Trump blamed “fake news” when a reporter asked him why the U.S. voting public wasn’t buying his economic optimism at his Tuesday speech. But numbers indicating a hard drop in the DOW Jones market during the second hour of his press undermined his claim. “A lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit, and I'm not blaming anybody. I think I blame ourselves. I think we've done a much better job than we're able to promote. We're not promoting, we're doing a great job, and we're sort of letting the promotion take care of itself,” Trump rambled as DOW numbers continued to dip. “One of the reasons I'm doing this news conference, I think it'

One month after the deadline set by Congress for the Justice Department to release all files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration has made available less than 1% of the files. This comes as President Trump has dramatically expanded immigration operations in Minnesota while attacking Venezuela, threatening to bomb Iran and maintaining that the United States will annex Greenland.Trump’s campaign promised “that the files would be released, all of the files. Now, that’s not happened,” says legal expert Michele Goodwin, calling it a “travesty.”This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN:

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney drew a standing ovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos after warning that the global order has ruptured.“Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Carney said, as The New York Times reported.“I will talk today about the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a brutal reality where the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to a

A massive art installation calling attention to President Donald Trump's close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is now on display across the street from the U.S. Capitol.The New York Times reported Tuesday that the anonymous artist collective Secret Handshake has now erected a new display of the suggestive birthday card that Trump purportedly sent Epstein for his 50th birthday (Trump denies writing the message). According to the Times, the group has a permit to show the exhibit on the National M