"Among the self-plaudits was a zinger about how, thanks to his "landslide" election victory and his energy policies, the US had avoided the "Green New Scam," what he called "perhaps the greatest hoax in history." Mixed in with stuff about credit card debt and making the US the crypto capital of the world, there was a reminder about how the president had personally ridden to the rescue of the American economy, so that it now knows "virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth.""
"Trump apparently sees Greenland, an autonomous Arctic island territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and shivers. It's nothing but a massive ice sheet, apparently with no inhabitants, no desires, and no sovereignty. But it's big-especially on Mercator maps, one of which hung as an AI-altered backdrop recently in the Oval Office, blazoned with an American flag pasted across its territory (Canada got the same treatment)-and it's out there in the Arctic. It's not terra incognita quite, but terra Americana."
President Donald Trump attended Davos and delivered a long, tiresome speech after a delayed flight. The speech focused on boasting about U.S. economic performance, credit card issues, and ambitions to make the United States a crypto capital. He labeled the Green New Deal a "Green New Scam" and described it as a historic hoax. The remarks included predictable attacks on windmills, political rivals, and foreign leaders. He launched into a prolonged, fanciful monologue about Greenland, portraying it as an empty ice sheet and even invoking altered Mercator maps with American flags.
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