BREAKING: Trump Melts Down at Davos, Confuses Iceland and Greenland

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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JVL, Sam Stein and Andrew Egger react live to Trump’s rambling and combative speech at Davos on January 21, 2026.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullock, and I'm joined by JVL and Andrew
0:04.8	Edgar. We just watched a 72-minute speech from Donald Trump, followed by a roughly, I don't know,
0:11.4	25, 30-minute Q&A session at Davos, a tour to force. I guess the real sort of headline news,
0:18.8	it would be that he took off the possibility of a military invasion of Greenland, I think.
0:26.4	I don't know.
0:26.8	Did he, Sam?
0:29.2	In the context of he would browbeat and economically coerce all the NATO allies into selling it to him.
0:35.7	So I guess no troops, but definitely trade wars, you be the judge.
0:40.0	We'll see.
0:40.8	Nothing's ever done.
0:41.5	Nothing's ever off the table with this.
0:43.2	That's what I mean, he just says everything all the time.
0:46.8	I'm sorry.
0:47.5	This is a, I'm watching all the headlines coming across.
0:50.2	People like, Trump removes threat of force.
0:52.8	And I am sorry, but that is not a thing which happened.
0:59.5	Okay, what's your main headline?
1:02.1	To me, this is like the moment.
1:04.2	I said that you guys on Slack.
1:07.7	I think, remember in September, he went and spoke to all the flag officers in the US military.
1:12.6	He called everybody together in Quantico.
1:14.6	He and he takes us, went and, right?
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