Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 - Trump vs. Greenland; Markets slide; ICE deaths surge; DOJ issues MN subpoenas
Morning Announcements
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:31.2 | Today is Wednesday, January 21st and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Betches Media. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm your host, Sammy Sage, |
| 0:38.3 | and the morning announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the headlines that isn't a megaphone |
| 0:42.8 | for the loudest voices, but a magnifying glass for the most important news. One quick thing before we |
| 0:48.2 | get into the episode, if you are a listener on Spotify and you hear this podcast in your daily drive, |
| 0:53.4 | Spotify is getting rid of that feature, |
| 0:55.2 | so if you want to keep listening to the morning announcements, make sure to follow the show so it ends up in |
| 0:59.6 | your feed. Now on to the news. We have to return to the middle of the night on Tuesday night |
| 1:07.0 | at around 1 a.m. when President Donald Trump started posting a series of crazy shit |
| 1:12.0 | on his little fucking social media app, specifically memes about the U.S. taking over Greenland |
| 1:17.6 | and text screenshots from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Mark Ruta, |
| 1:22.9 | in which both were absolutely just kissing his ass, to the extent that California Governor Gavin Newsom, |
| 1:28.5 | who has decided to show up at Davos with all of these people, said that they should have |
| 1:32.7 | brought knee pads. Also at Davos yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech |
| 1:38.1 | where he called the present situation, quote, a rupture, not a transition. I'm glad someone |
| 1:43.1 | finally gets it. |
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