One CNN fact checker was kept busy calling out President Trump’s “barrage of false claims” during his speech in Davos, Switzerland.
During the president’s speech at the World Economic Forum, Daniel Dale went into overdrive call out Trump’s rambling. Topics ranged from attacks on windmills to attacks on California Governor Gavin Newsom, to his renewed fascination with acquiring Greenland – despite mixing it up with Iceland a handful of times.
“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.”),” Dale tweeted at one point. “Just pure fiction.”
Another callout: “Trump claims ‘after (World War II) we gave Greenland back to Denmark – how stupid were we to do that?’ The 1941 agreement giving the US military the right to operate in Greenland repeatedly said Denmark retained full sovereignty over Greenland.”
Trump’s other topics he touched on were some of his greatest hits: the “rigged” 2020 presidential election, the war in Ukraine, and more insults flung at Canada and Europe. He also turned his ire on NATO as questions about the alliance were raised during his push for Greenland’s acquisition.
“A barrage of false claims from Trump about NATO:
President Trump has made a series of claims about Greenland in recent weeks, insisting the United States needs to take control of the island to protect Americans — a view Greenland officials and NA...