"President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, and CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale conducted a live evisceration of what he dubbed a barrage of false claims from the president. Last year, Trump appeared by videoconference at the annual gathering, delivering a rambling speech that ping-ponged between topics, insulted his political opponents, as well as included a number of bold claims, exaggerations, and utter falsehoods."
"Dale followed along with Trump's speech to fact-check it in real time, posting the commentary on his X account. President Trump did not "come up with" the idea of AI-related companies producing their own electricity, as he claimed again today at Davos. (He said in November that it "was my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of.) Just pure fiction."
President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, 2026, delivering a rambling address that mixed topics and repeated false or exaggerated claims. The remarks touched on the war in Ukraine, hostility toward wind turbines, insults toward Canada and Europe, recycled assertions that the 2020 election was rigged, and renewed demands for Greenland plus several confusing references to Iceland. A real-time fact-checker posted corrections on X, calling multiple claims pure fiction and noting historical and factual errors, including about Greenland's sovereignty, an alleged AI electricity idea, and a flawed list of 'settled' wars.
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