President Donald Trump said that his so-called Board of Peace "might" replace the United Nations.
During a Tuesday press conference, Trump was asked about the future of his new project.
"One, do you want your Board of Peace to replace the UN?" the reporter wondered.
"Well, it might. I mean, the UN just hasn't been very helpful," Trump replied. "I'm a big fan of the UN's potential, but it has never lived up to its potential. The UN should have settled every one of the wars that I settled."
"I never went to them. I never even thought to go to them," he added. "I believe you gotta let the UN continue because the potential is so great."
President Donald Trump fawned over a violent outlaw motorcycle gang while simultaneously blasting criminal immigrants during an unusual and rambling press conference on Tuesday marking the anniversary of his second inauguration.
Trump spoke for more than 70 minutes, claiming during a bizarre speech and unusual slideshow presentation featuring placards of suspected criminal immigrants, that the immigrants ICE wants to apprehend were more dangerous than the notorious gang Hells Angels — dubbed a criminal enterprise by the Department of Justice.
"People that came in illegally. Many cases, they're criminals in many, many cases," Trump said. "Remember when they used to say that the people that come into our country as immigrants are very nice people? They're wonderful people. They don't commit crime. No. They make our criminals look like babies. They make our Hells Angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The Hells Angels are now considered a nice, high quality person. I like the Hells Angels. They voted for me. They protected me. Actually, believe it or not. But they make our criminals look like babies."
President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming the former Gulf of Mexico after himself.
While recounting the victories of the first year of his second term, Trump recalled renaming the body of water the "Gulf of America."
"Gulf of Mexico and now it's the Gulf of America," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "Because we have 92% of the shoreline. It always bothered me and say, you know, we have most of the shoreline. Mexico has a small percentage, talks about 8%. We have 92%. And I said, why is it the Gulf of Mexico? It should be the Gulf of America."
"I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump," he continued. "But I thought that I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it. I wanted to. My people worked so hard. Sir, don't think it'll look too good."
Trump insisted that the Gulf would be "hotter than ever" if it had been named after him.
"I'm joking, you know, when I say that," he added. "I was not going to call it the Gulf of Trump. Because tomorrow I'll be, Trump wanted to call it the Gulf of Trump, but he was rebuffed by his people. My people don't rebuff me too much."
"The Gulf of Trump, that does have a good ring, though. Maybe we could do that. It's not too late."
The internet was stunned Tuesday as President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech at a press conference marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration.
Trump walked up to the podium at the White House press briefing room with a large stack of bound papers labeled "accomplishments" and started blaming former President Joe Biden, giving an unusual slideshow presentation show placards of alleged suspects wanted by ICE.
After about 40 minutes into the rambling speech, CNN cut away, with anchor Brianna Keilar calling it "pretty winding even by Trumpian standards." She pointed to the unusual demeanor of the president, reacting to the unusual moment.
People were shocked on social media and questioned the president's mental fitness.
"Anyone watching Donald Trump’s press conference? He’s completely deranged. It’s like he’s drunk," user Bafa Renitez wrote on X.
"Watching and listening to this this press briefing and I can’t fathom how anyone still believes Trump is fit for office. The stone cold silence from the 'press' in the room is deafening as Trump aimlessly rambles with exception of some soft, nervous laughter at his weird jokes," user Surfer Dude wrote on X.
"Trump knows he’s in trouble politically, probably doesn’t realize how incoherent he sounds. Starts the press conference on defense trying to justify the violence and brutality we are seeing in MN, attacking Biden and revising the 2020 election lie," CNN political commentator Karen Finney wrote on X.
"Donald Trump has spent the first 15 minutes of his year in review press conference flipping through pictures and mumbling to himself. I really have never seen anything like it," journalist Aaron Parnas wrote on X.
"Donald Trump could not point out a 'normal person' if they punched him in nose! This press conference is bulls---!! More gaslighting, more lies, more rampant blatant dangerous xenophobia! Yes, go take the murderers out and deport them! Sadly, that is not what Trump’s thug ICE agents are doing! Btw 'the Hispanics' don’t love you or support you Donald Trump!!" Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Maria Cardona wrote on X.
"This Trump press conference is a complete disaster. He’s rambling incoherently and flipping through a picture book of 'accomplishments' in front of the press. He’s clearly unwell. It’s getting really bad," Democratic influencer Harry Sisson wrote on X.
"This Trump press conference is excruciating. It’s like listening to an old drunk in a pub tell a tale. He knows he’s on tv right? He’s just talking absolute bollocks," user Gemma Bailey wrote on X.
"If Biden or Reagan had conducted a rambling, incoherent press conference like this, there would have been a rash of pieces about his cognitive decline and mental acuity. With Trump, it’s just another day at the office," author Nick Bryant wrote on X.
President Donald Trump rambled after he held up photo after photo of people whom he claimed were criminal immigrants in Minnesota.
To mark the first anniversary of his second term, Trump took the podium in the White House briefing room on Tuesday.
"We've done more than any other administration has done, by far, in terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars. Nobody's really seeing very much like I think it's appropriate that because Minnesota, so much in the fray," Trump began. "And I said to my people all the time, so busy doing other things like they should. Ending murders, drug dealers, a lot of bad people, and these are just some of the more recent ones. That we have. I can show you some of the people."
With that, the president began a 15-minute presentation, holding up photos of various people. Each photo had the word "Minnesota" printed at the top.
"These are out of Minnesota, just Minnesota," he noted. "These criminal illegal aliens said, in many cases, the matter is that drug lords, drug dealers, and the mentally insane. There's some of them were brutal killers and mentally insane, they're killers. But they're saying. These are just in Minnesota and California. It's worse. In the states. Worse. No, Minnesota. The crime is incredible. The financial crimes are incredible. And the problem is because of the educators, an insurrection is what have you with troublemakers. But they're paid agitators. An insurrection is — nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree."
"But these are people that you have to see," Trump continued. "Strong arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and many other crimes. Gang member, known as one of the toughest people around. These are tough people."
The president paused, sensing he was not captivating his audience.
"You're not getting bored with this, right?" he asked the reporters. "I hope you don't."
President Donald Trump's former chief of staff warned Tuesday that his aggressive push to seize Greenland could cost him support among Americans.
Mick Mulvaney, who served during Trump's first term, suggested in an interview with NewsNation that the president's demand to acquire the Arctic island nation could hurt his messaging for voters around affordability and damage his relationship and reputation among allies — especially Europe, The Independent reported.
Mulvaney suggested that he would caution the president over retaliating against the countries.
“Mr. President, keep in mind, this is our largest creditor,” Mulvaney said. “Europe buys more of our debt than anybody else, and if they stop doing that, interest rates are going to go up. That is not really good for affordability.”
He also questioned what the Trump administration would hope to accomplish — and how they'd plan a potential takeover.
“My follow-up question is, ‘Ok, Scott, are we bombing Canada? I mean, what are we doing here? What are we trying to accomplish?’ If we’re trying to defend the nation, there are ways to do it without alienating our closest allies in the whole world,” Mulvaney said.
He also added that he has respect for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said the U.S. would not plan to "outsource" its national security to other countries.
“The cost here could be much, much larger than I think the administration is considering,” Mulvaney said.
He estimated that the cost could directly impact rising consumer prices and be costly for the U.S. Greenland was valued at an estimated $700 billion, according to NBC News.
Greenland and Denmark have declined Trump's offer to purchase and acquire Greenland. Trump this weekend said he planned to impose a 10 percent tariff on Denmark and other European countries that do not agree on his move to take the country.
Economist Robert Wolf, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, shut down a Fox News host and guest Tuesday after their relentless praise of the economy under President Donald Trump, praise that Wolf argued was unsupported by facts.
Conservative economist Stephen Moore spent several minutes praising the state of the economy under Trump’s leadership before Wolf jumped in to correct the record.
“Manufacturing jobs are down almost 100,000 for the last 12 months,” Wolf said before getting cut off by the Fox News host, who tried to shift blame for the decline in manufacturing jobs on former President Joe Biden.
“Wait, you don't let me finish, you let him finish!” Wolf interjected. “We're talking about this 12-month period, you want to talk about Biden, we can, but we're talking about this 12-month period.”
Wolf continued to be interrupted by the host, who went on to blame Biden for other ongoing economic shortfalls. Wolf then moved to speak to Trump’s tariffs, something that would prove difficult to blame on Biden.
“You know what, let's just blame Biden, okay? Now that we've blamed Biden, let me finish,” Wolf said. “Right now, our biggest trading partners are France, Germany and the European Union, and they're not happy today, and this approach with tariffs over Greenland, I don't think is a smart approach, the market doesn't think is a smart approach.”
This time, Moore interrupted Wolf, arguing that the stock market, year over year, has improved under Trump’s second term.
“I'm not talking about the stock market Steve!” Wolf said. “[Around] 96% of tariffs have been paid by American companies and American consumers – let's quit gaslighting the Americans! Even you say it's a tax on the consumer, you've said it a thousand times!”
MS NOW's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough asked "where are the Republicans?" as he hammered the conservative majority Supreme Court for fearing Trump's backlash instead of facing him head-on. Scarborough argued it was time for the high court to "reaffirm the law of the land," as federal agents have detained American citizens and incited violence in Minnesota and Trump demands that Greenland be seized and potentially destroys NATO.
Scarborough pointed to the Supreme Court's lack of action as the reason many of Trump's actions have unfolded.
"Telling generals and admirals, 'Hey, we can actually practice our military tactics on Americans in American cities,' [Trump] said that at that meeting where they called together all the generals and admirals," Scarborough said. "So again, so much of this is on the Supreme Court, sitting back, saying nothing, doing nothing, not ruling on tariffs, allowing Donald Trump when he gets upset with a foreign country because they won't just hand him land, the threatening of tariffs and everybody stands up for that foreign country, an ally, a close ally.
"He then threatens other allies that are saying they will stand with the ally Donald Trump is threatening."
Scarborough also said that Trump's threat to send troops to American cities is something the Supreme Court could have pushed back on.
"It is so un-American. It is so unconstitutional and it is so right in front of the Roberts court and they sit back and they say nothing and they do nothing and so much of the chaos that you've been seeing over the past six months could have been so easily cleared up by the Roberts court if they had simply told the truth and acted quickly on tariffs, what they know to be the law on tariffs," Scarborough said.
"If they had stepped forward and said what they knew the law was on using American troops for domestic policing. They know that's illegal. They know that's unconstitutional and yet, they continue to do nothing."
He argued that it was up to the high court to protect Americans, however, the conservative court has shown no signs of resisting Trump.
"A temporary order at the end of the year — not enough, not enough — they need to not even close the door on these actions, they need to reaffirm the law of the land and they're too scared to even do that," Scarborough added.
The stock market took a dive on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's return to the White House as investors braced for a global clash over his threats against Greenland.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by more than 600 points, while the S&P 500 fell by 1.5 percent and the Nasdaq Composite dropped by 1.8 percent, and U.S. bond prices staggered and the U.S. Dollar Index dropped nearly 1 percent under Trump's tariff threats against Europe, reported CNBC.
“This is ‘sell America’ again within a much broader global risk off,” said Krishna Guha, head of global policy and central banking strategy at Evercore ISI, in a note to clients.
The bond market shifted Tuesday following Trump's holiday weekend threats to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight European countries that have objected to his push to take control of Greenland, and representatives from all 27 members of the European Union gathered for an emergency meeting about the duties he said would start Feb. 1.
“On the other side of trade, deficits, and trade wars, there are capital and capital wars,” Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “If you take the conflicts, you can’t ignore the possibility of the capital wars. In other words, maybe there’s not the same inclination to buy ... U.S. debt and so on.”
The drop in the U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the dollar against six foreign currencies, was the largest since his so-called Liberation Day rollout of sharply higher tariffs in April, although many of those have been rolled back.
International markets continued to droop Tuesday after U.S. markets reopened following the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
"Investors are facing a rocky return to trading as the risk of a full-on US-EU trade war rattles nerves just as earnings season gets going," reported Yahoo Finance.
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Bruley said he opposed abolishing ICE but disagreed with how federal officers were carrying out immigration enforcement.
"Recently, as the last two weeks, we as law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens," he said. "What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being forced to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally."
"As this went on over the past two weeks, we started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty," he continued. "Every one of these individuals is a person of color who has had this happen to them."
Bruley said ICE "boxed in" one officer on a roadway.
"They demanded her paperwork, of which she's a US citizen and clearly would not have any paperwork," he said. "When she became concerned about the rhetoric and the way she was being treated, she pulled out her phone in an attempt to record the incident, the phone was knocked out of her hands, prevented her from recording it."
"The officer had their gun drawn during this interaction," he added. "And after the officer became so concerned, they were forced to identify themselves as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing the incident and de-escalating the incident down."
"The agents then immediately left after hearing this, making no other comments, no other apologies, just got in their vehicles and left."
Bruley said the anecdote was not an isolated incident.
"In fact, many of the chiefs standing behind me have similar incidents with their off-duty officers," he remarked. "This isn't just important because it happened to off-duty police officers, but what it did do is we know that our officers know what the Constitution is, they know what right and wrong is, and they know when people are being targeted, and that's what they were."
"If it is happening to our officers, it pains me to think of how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day. It has to stop."
After President Donald Trump touched down in Davos to meet with the World Economic Forum, he sent out a message to his followers suggesting treaty organizations like NATO and the United Nations were "cults."
In a Tuesday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump shared the thoughts of one of his supporters.
"So at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within?" the supporter asked. "China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the U.N., NATO and this 'religion.'
"I put 'religion' in quotes because it's not a religion," the message added. "It's cult! Yeh, I went there."
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down after claiming meals in the United States cost $3 each.
According to the secretary, she asked a team of economists to estimate the cost of a meal.
"And I don't want any funny business with numbers," she recalled telling the group in a Tuesday interview. "Like, I really want to know what that looks like because we had run almost 1,000 simulations. And between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food."
"So just about an hour ago, I saw new numbers that were run a full day, meaning three full square meals and a snack is about $15.64," she continued. "That's all three meals and a snack. So we'll be talking more about that in the coming days and weeks."
Rollins said she "cringed" at the criticism she received after claiming meals cost $3.
"I grew up with a single mom in a really small town and certainly never meant to be flippant," she insisted. "But I also think that the left or those that were attacking me perhaps know that this is an issue that 90% of Americans agree on."
Rollins faced the criticism after her initial comments to NewsNation went viral, with one representative calling them "a slap in the face to struggling working families."
"We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, you know, a corn tortilla, and one other thing," she said at the time.
Stephen Miller is pushing Donald Trump to create further complications in Minneapolis, a political analyst has claimed.
Speaking on The Daily Blast, both Greg Sargent and Mother Jones columnist Mark Follman believe the president could be swayed into invoking the Insurrection Act. The law gives the president the power to deploy the US Armed Forces and National Guard in individual states. Whether Trump uses this law in Minneapolis just weeks after the ICE shooting of Renee Good is yet to be seen.
But analysts like Sargent and Follman believe Miller is orchestrating a push for Trump to use the act. Sargent said, "I think the way I would put that is that they think the supercharging of all these violent tensions and malignancies among Americans, among ethnic group against ethnic group, American against American, creates the conditions for their type of politics to take hold.
"I don’t know whether Trump really thinks it through that way, but I’m reasonably certain that Stephen Miller very much does. At bottom though, I think Miller clearly wants Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
"I’m not in his head, as you say, but I’m pretty sure that he is quietly whispering in Donald Trump’s ear that the time has come to invoke it. And so you can hear in Miller’s rhetoric, he uses all sorts of language that really is deeply kind of shaped around the idea of getting Trump to that place.
"And he’s trying to get Trump to invoke it, and Trump hasn’t done it yet, but it is something that Miller wants and he thinks this sort of turmoil creates the conditions for that."
Follman agreed, suggesting the Insurrection Act would do little to curb rising tensions in the area. He added, " I think that it is a very serious possibility and something that Miller and others around Trump perhaps want to see happen, really ultimately, I think, as a furtherance of maximizing his power and his control, this idea of maximizing the unitary executive theory that Trump’s in charge.
"And so using the Insurrection Act would be another expression of that predicated on, I think, this kind of rising tension and violence and chaos that we’re seeing, largely perpetrated by the operations that they’re carrying out with ICE."
