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While President Donald Trump made news at the World Economic Conference in Davos this week with his demand to be handed Greenland, followed by a rambling speech and the launch of his much derided “Council of Peace,“ Canada’s prime minister was lavished with the kind of praise and positive international attention the American president can only dream of.According to Washington Post analyst Ishaan Tharoor, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s star has risen to dizzying heights after his speech at which he made the point, “Every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great-power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”He later added, “The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”According to the Post, Carney made a huge impression that led longtime German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger to hail the speech and report, “There are some people who are now saying, ‘why can’t we invite Canada to be a member of the E.U.?’"Adam Tooze, who was the moderator when Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick answered questions, agreed and admitted, “It was the only one of the leader speeches that I saw that, with weight and moral earnestness, expressed the shock which many of us are feeling here.”Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, joined the praise, explaining, “We know that it reflects a change in the global order that we’ve almost all seen coming increasingly over the past years, but no major government leader was prepared to actually say it,” and then predicting, “people are going to be thinking back on [the speech] for quite a long time.”The Post’s Tharoor reported that Trump appears to realize that he was shown up by Carney and lashed out by rescinding Canada’s invitation to the Board of Peace, which Canada had already rejected. - YouTube youtu.be

Any day now a swarm of armed state police dressed for war could descend on a metropolitan area in south-west Ohio.The small town of Springfield in Clark County is awaiting an invasion of unaccountable thugs who conceal their faces and identities, drive in unmarked vehicles with blackened windows, stomp on the Bill of Rights, and viciously brutalize human beings based on race and accent.The clock is ticking for 20 to 25 percent of the city’s population from Haiti. In two weeks, barring last-minute legal or congressional intervention, immigrants from the violently imploding Caribbean country will lose their legal protection from rampaging ICE warriors eager to fill deportation quotas.The militarized sweep of terror unleashed by unrestrained federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that has traumatized Minneapolis and the nation writ large could be coming to Springfield soon.An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitian residents in the metro area — many of whom have been living, working, and raising families in the area for close to a decade under a legal immigration lifeline — will be stripped of their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on Feb. 3.That means on Feb. 4, a paramilitary ICE force of masked tough guys can grab and deport as many Creole-speaking Black people in Springfield as possible.Those who protest the savagery deployed against their neighbors could face the same harassment and dispersement tactics demonstrators in the Twin Cities did with flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets or, like Renee Good, worse.The Ohio city is bracing for barbaric.Haitian residents cut off from their legally protected status could meet the same fate as other immigrants besieged by cosplaying federal Rambos with weapons and short fuses.The Haitians who flocked to Springfield to escape a violent homeland trusted Ohio to have their backs. They worked their tails off and endured much to revive a dying Rust Belt region. But the lives they painstakingly built in Ohio as co-workers, business owners, community activists and church-going family people are nearing an expiration date.The huddled masses who yearned to be free in Springfield are terrified of being returned to Haiti which is even more turbulent and deadly than when they left.It is considered too dangerous by the U.S. for its own citizens.The State Department gave Haiti its highest Level Four: Do Not Travel advisory due to extreme risks of being caught in gunfire or ongoing gang violence, kidnappings, armed robbery, sexual assault, and severe shortages of basic necessities including fuel, water, and food.Yet while acknowledging (in a gross understatement) that “certain conditions in Haiti remain concerning,” the Trump regime insists the bloody hellscape is safe enough to ship 350,000 Haitian immigrants legally employed in the U.S, including Springfield, back home.The Department of Homeland Security even dangled a $1,000 incentive to Haitians who self-deport.One Springfield immigrant who is haunted by the bodies he saw regularly on the streets of Haiti, gunned down by roving gangs, flinched at an exit bonus to armed conflict.“You could be self-deporting to your death,” he said. The Haitians who turned to Ohio for security, employment, and hope rescued Springfield said local pastor Carl Ruby.The town had been in decline for 70 years before the 2017 arrival of Haitians, he explained.“We had shrunk all the way back to the population we had in 1910,” and the influx of immigrants, granted temporary refuge in Springfield, was “one of the best things that has happened in terms of economic growth and tax revenues” despite initial growing pains.“There were legitimate issues when such a large group arrived all at once, but we’ve made a lot of progress in dealing with those issues and it’s going to be both an economic and humanitarian disaster if TPS ends.” At the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, executive director Viles Dorsainvil said many of his compatriots who survived political upheaval, insecurity and abductions in Haiti believed they had come to Ohio to work hard, raise their families, go to school and contribute to their community.Now they shudder with fear and uncertainty as their final hours of safety and stability ebb away.“But we keep going because we are a resilient people,” sighed Dorsainvil.Yet if the Trump regime revokes the Haitians’ temporary protected status a couple of weeks from now ICE agents could quickly invade Springfield, like other targeted cities, and drag documented immigrants from their children their homes, their dreams.Anxious town leaders are appealing for calm. Meanwhile, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine warned of a looming economic crisis in Springfield if area factories and business cannot find replacements for the thousands of terminated Haitian employees slated for indefensible deportation to what DeWine called “one of the most dangerous places in the world.”These immigrants were a godsend to American employers who struggled with hard-to-fill jobs.In a sane world, Republican leadership in Ohio would be fighting tooth and nail to protect the TPS holders from Haiti building a robust economic comeback in Clark County because it is clearly in the best interest of the state to do so.Ohio’s U.S. senators would be racing to obtain a TPS extension or redesignation for Haiti to give Springfield’s immigrant community work permit protections against removal to an extraordinarily unsafe country.But they acquiesce without a fight while the madness of a militarized sweep of terror comes to south-west Ohio.And it will. Any day now. Marilou Johanek is a veteran Ohio print and broadcast journalist who has covered state and national politics as a longtime newspaper editorial writer and columnist.

President Donald Trump on Thursday made a big announcement about an upcoming global event and who he picked to help lead it.He posted the following on his Truth Social platform: "Today, I am announcing the United States’ intention to bid for the World Expo 2035. The Great State of Florida has expressed strong interest in hosting the Expo in Miami, which I fully support. Miami Expo 2035 can be the next big milestone in our new Golden Age of America."Trump shared the news just a day after meeting with world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and having major pushback to his demands to seize Greenland and invoke tariffs on European allies in retaliation to their objections — then announcing he had sought a new deal over the Arctic nation. He also revealed who in his circle will help lead the effort."I am appointing Miami native Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Chair the efforts of coordinating and advancing this exciting opportunity to convene the World. We will create thousands of jobs, and add Billions of Dollars in GROWTH, to our Economy. In my First Term as President, I fought hard to bring the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 LA Summer Olympics to the U.S.A. I now have the Honor of hosting as the 47th President, plus America250, G20 Doral, and the G7. I look forward to winning and participating in the Miami Expo 2035!"

Donald Trump made some improvisations in his Davos speech as a way of setting himself apart from other world leaders, a therapist has suggested. Shelly Dar, a registered mental health therapist speaking to The Mirror US, claimed the president's intonation and erratic comments are all part of the act. The contrast he brought to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, could be seen in the latter parts of his appearance. Dar said that, while Trump is initially tense for the presentation, it is a ploy to create dissonance with what the meeting is all about. She said, "What stands out from Trump is how rigidly controlled his presentation is. "For the first 95 minutes we only see him from the elbows up. Both hands are anchored to the podium, his posture is rigid, and when you can’t see two-thirds of the body that limits our information." Dar suggested Trump behind the podium manages to "conceal" the signals of anxiety which can be found in the lower body. But the contrast the president wished to show was more than obvious to the mental health therapist. "He visibly exhales, his pace loosens and his pitch varies," Dar explained. "He defaults to his usual behaviors — boastfulness, anecdotes, scaling things up. That tells us something important. His confidence isn’t dependent on structure."He appears more confident when improvising than when delivering prepared remarks. I think it's well known that he doesn't like reading off an autocue."Overall his communication strategy prioritizes dominance over dialogue. He provides certainty over nuance, and his narrative control is built on assertion rather than persuasion."This improvised commentary from Trump stands firmly against what Davos is all about. Dar added, "Davos is built on multilateralism, shared norms and collaborative language. So this contrast is deliberate."What stands out about Trump is the type of confidence that he shows. Behaviorally, he assumes authority that is already his. He doesn’t adapt to the room, but he expects the room to adapt to him. "This is a dominant personality style, it's not a collaborative one. He's there to set the tone of the room."

President Donald Trump made a major shift in direction in his first remarks on Wednesday after demanding a deal to own Greenland.Trump appeared to change his mind about military action to acquire the Arctic Island and Danish territory, and his comments were a notable change in development over the situation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump said that a deal was in the works and expected "to be put out pretty soon," he told reporters. When CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked if the deal would potentially include U.S. ownership of Greenland, Trump wavered."It's a long-term deal. It's the ultimate long-term deal," Trump said. "Infinite. There is no time limit. It's a deal that's forever" he said, when asked the length of the deal.Collins asked why he would invite Russia to join his Board of Peace — which he has suggested might replace the United Nations — if he was concerned about security regarding Greenland after his mention of concerns over Russia and China interfering with the country. "Because we want all nations. These are people that get the job done," Trump said. Trump has reportedly backed off a tariff deal that would have targeted European nations.

An MS NOW reporter was stunned following President Donald Trump's shift away from suggesting he would use military force to seize Greenland and his comments to world leaders on Wednesday. Ravi Agrawal described a full room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where people were anticipating hearing Trump's comments on the Arctic island, NATO and the future of the United States' relationship with European nations. "Gosh, I mean, a lot of people here calling it performance art, or maybe performance imperialism. This was a stunning speech, I've been to many Davoses over the last 15 years, I've never seen one speech that was this anticipated with this many hundreds of people trying to get in because they wanted to see in person Trump repeat the threats he has made on social media and add some balas to it."During the 90 minutes, the first 30 minutes were scripted, Agrawal said. And that he didn't bring up Greenland until the end. "Ever the showman, he knew that that is the only reason why people had come in to listen to him in the numbers that they did, and of course, he didn't disappoint," Agrawal said. "The points he made were rambling, he said that NATO has never done anything for the United States, which is absolutely untrue. The only time Article 5 of NATO has been invoked is to defend the United States after 9/11. And Greenland, Denmark, more than any other country, has lost more troops helping Americans more than any other country as a percentage of their population." People were curious if Trump would repeat his claims on social media in front of the world leaders. "These are facts that everyone in the audience knew about, but they were there to see whether Trump would repeat all of these lies in person and whether he would add some more weight to his threats," Agrawal said."The question now is whether European leaders will add some action to their words. I have to say I am seeing for the first time in a long time, European leaders really resolve in a strong way to do more than just words because they realize how serious this now is," he added.

President Donald Trump lamented that he couldn't "screw" people whom he didn't like during a rant at the World Economic Forum.While speaking to CEOs in Davos on Wednesday, Trump bragged that companies were building plants in the U.S."It's amazing what's going on. Look, it's amazing. We've never had anything like it or close. Nobody else has it," he remarked. "I don't even ask anybody how you're doing now. It's like everybody is making so much money.""And we have so many people in this room that have done a job," he continued. "I said, you've doubled your net worth since I've been president, right? He said, yeah, even more than that. They would say even more. We're doing even better than that."But Trump's remarks took a turn as he spotted a few perceived enemies in the room."In a way, I'm jealous. In a way, I'm upset. There are a couple of people in the room," he said. "I can't stand them, and they've become very rich. There's nothing I can do about it.""I would screw them if I could, but I can't do it, right?" he added. "I can't do it. I would have had a chance, or I could just take them and say, you can't do what Apple's doing, but you're not allowed to do that, Newt Gingrich, right? We can't do it.""But I would love to do it, really, you know? It's one of those things, but everybody's making a lot of money."

President Donald Trump's effort to acquire Greenland backfired as the European Parliament stopped work on a trade deal with the U.S.While Trump was speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, confirmed that "the EU-US deal is on hold until further notice.”“Our negotiating team just decided to suspend work," Lange added in a social media post, "on the legal implementation of Turnberry deal. Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake. Business as usual impossible.”During his WEF speech, Trump ruled out using military force to take Greenland.