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Wall Street has a term for President Donald Trump’s habit of making loud threats and then backing down: TACO, short for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” And on Wednesday, he did just that. After delivering a wildly incoherent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump abruptly caved on his Greenland nonsense—along with the tariffs he threatened to impose on Europe for refusing to…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump repeatedly confuses Greenland for Iceland "The president of the United States is extremely mentally ill, and it’s putting all of our lives at risk.” Media lauds Trump’s Davos speech as ‘very strong’ as world cringes We’re not sure what’s more embarrassing: Trump’s speeches or the me…

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | How the US could take over Greenland and the potential challenges

States are bracing for what’s projected to be “one of the most extreme” winter storms across nearly half of the United States this weekend. But the potential devastation could be amplified by the lack of federal disaster relief. In North Carolina, the impacts of 2024’s Hurricane Helene can still be felt across the state. Now, freezing rain threatens dayslong power outages and arctic temperatures …

In yet another sign that we are living in an Orwellian hellscape, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday told Americans not to believe their own ears when they heard President Donald Trump confuse Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his rambling speech in Davos, Switzerland. Leavitt made the ridiculous claim in a post on X, in which she angrily responded to NewsNation r…

Back on Jan. 9, Mad King Donald Trump promised credit card interest rates would be slashed by Tuesday, Jan. 20. “Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration,” the addled president wrote on Truth Social. “AF…

House Republicans want to pretend that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the only worthwhile focus of the Epstein files scandal , but unfortunately for them, Democrats are ready to dismantle their desperate attempt to run interference for President Donald Trump. During a Wednesday hearing for the House Oversight Committee, Democrats tore into Attorney General Pam Bondi’s failure to release the governm…

President Donald Trump will travel to Iowa next week to kick off his series of weekly speeches on the economy—the most important issue to voters in the 2026 midterm elections. The fact that Trump is starting in Iowa is a major sign of just how much trouble Republicans are poised to find themselves in during the upcoming midterms . President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit to a fam…

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Denmark tells Trump to cut the sh-t about taking over Greenland

During his trip to Davos, Switzerland, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the plain truth about President Donald Trump’s long-winded and barely coherent speech. After Newsom dismissed the speech as “remarkably boring” and “insignificant,” CNN's Kaitlyn Collins noted that it also displayed Trump’s familiar ignorance of foreign affairs , such as when the president repeatedly confused Iceland for…

Mainstream media outlets on Wednesday once again reported on a strange, rambling speech by President Donald Trump as if it were a normal presentation, continuing the tradition of “sanewashing” his rhetoric and misinforming their audiences. Trump’s presentation before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had him referring to Greenland mistakenly as Iceland as part of his near-constant f…

During a bizarre speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump revisited his own appallingly racist claims —both insisting that the country of Somalia “ stinks ” and is populated by "low-IQ people," and peddling his administration's assertion that Somali immigrants in Minnesota have masterminded a welfare fraud scheme. “Somalia—they turned out to be higher IQ th…