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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Trump Touts First-Year Accomplishments In Rambling News Briefing

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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President Trump sends world leaders scrambling as he speaks on Gaza, Greenland, NATO, Venezuela, and more. Plus, a major winter storm is brewing and is threatening snow and ice from Texas all the way to the Carolinas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:05.0

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news in our world lead.

0:10.0

President Trump today marking one full year in office with a marathon rambling, at times

0:17.0

incoherent, possibly unsettling White House news briefing, clocking in about 15 minutes shy of

0:23.4

two hours. For any supporters of his looking for reassurance that the Trump doing wild

0:29.1

1 a.m. social media post is not the same Trump in the White House. Well, they probably were not

0:35.1

reassured. The first hour and change was an entire monologue.

0:39.1

The president began by complaining about his public relations, a common complaint of politicians

0:43.6

who have horrific poll numbers. Then he started showing off mug shots of people he said were

0:47.9

undocumented migrants who had been apprehended as part of his ramped up ice efforts.

0:52.4

This all comes amid some reports that the President has privately expressed discomfort over

0:57.0

the optics of how some of these ice raids have been carried out.

1:01.0

President then talked about crime in Minnesota.

1:05.0

We brought Minnesota down, way down, even though everything's a fight, you know, because

1:15.3

they want to keep those people that are lying on the floor.

1:18.7

They want to keep those people in Minnesota, but they really don't.

1:22.6

I don't think the real people of Minnesota, it's a very corrupt place, and the elections

1:26.4

are totally corrupt.

1:27.3

I feel I won it all three times.

1:29.3

He feels he feels he won it all three times as Ben Shapiro often says.

1:35.3

Facts don't care about your feelings. President Trump lost Minnesota all three times.

1:40.3

Fair and square every time. Not really surprising. Minnesota has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1972, and in fact, Minnesota

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