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The Daily T

Trump blows up Davos and demands Greenland

The Daily T

The Telegraph

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4.1705 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump finally made it to Davos, three hours late.


After a flashing-light emergency on Air Force One, Mr Trump used the World Economic Forum platform to unload on Europe, the UK and pretty much anyone else in range. 


Marking a year since his inauguration, the US president mocked green energy, accused Britain of crippling itself by refusing to drill the North Sea, and claimed Europe has “destroyed itself”. Back home, Sir Keir Starmer showed unexpected steel at PMQs, saying he will not yield to Mr Trump’s pressure on Greenland.


Camilla and Tim unpack Mr Trump’s freewheeling Davos speech, from his fresh push to “acquire” Greenland (while confusing it with Iceland), to digs at Emmanuel Macron’s sunglasses, Canada’s “freebies”, and a promise to build a “golden dome” to protect North America. We ask what all of this tells us about the new world order.


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0:00.0

The Telegraph.

0:10.0

It's the speech we've all been waiting for.

0:12.0

Donald Trump has eviscerated cheese-eating surrender monkey Davos man.

0:17.0

Greenland is just a block of ice, but he wants it, he deserves it, and he's going to humiliate any Western leader who stands in his way.

0:24.9

Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley.

0:27.0

And me, Camilla Tominy.

0:43.2

Tim, forgive me, but weren't you clean shaven this morning and then after a day in the car with me?

0:53.5

I look like Colombo. It's a terror. It's a terror beard. No, you drove really well. We have just come back from Dorset where we were recording a special episode about Labor's War on pubs, which will come out on Friday.

0:56.1

And then we had to get back very, very quickly to the office.

1:00.1

And you drove through the rain, and you never broke the law once.

1:01.9

Thank you for saying that.

1:05.7

I'm very proud that I was once awarded an advanced motoring certificate.

1:09.9

And like Partridge, I do metaphorically wear driving gloves. We've been in Dorset, and now we need to go from Dorset to Davos. And you and I sat next to each other in the car listening to this extraordinary speech. Yes. Now, I know those with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome are going to say it was rambling. It actually wasn't. I mean, it was repetitive, as they always are.

1:28.2

But I mean, I got the message loud and clear, didn't you?

1:30.3

He talks about the weave, and he started actually saying, I'm doing the weave.

1:35.0

And the weave is where he starts an idea, then goes around the houses and covers several other points.

1:39.6

But then somehow returns to the idea.

1:41.8

So there is this intellectual threat.

1:43.8

And we were listening on the

1:45.0

BBC to this. And I noticed they spent 30 seconds to a minute afterwards talking about how

1:51.7

discombobulated they were and how some viewers, some listeners might think the speech was strange.

1:57.1

We've had him for 10 years now. Yes. He can no longer take you by surprise.

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