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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

CNN Fact Checker: Trump’s Davos Speech ‘Barrage Of False Claims’ - Forbes

President Donald Trump went off script to rant, complain yet again about the 2020 presidential election and he even appeared to confuse countries during his speech Wednesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, with CNN’s in-house fact checker Daniel Dale describing the speech as a “barrage of false claims.”

The speech, which was the highlight of the president’s trip--which got off to a rough start when Air Force One had to turn back after a minor electrical issue--and found Trump telling world leaders that he did not intend to use force to take Greenland, which he appeared to confuse at times with Iceland:

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that Trump did not “mix up” Greenland and Iceland, but CNN’s Dale responded to Leavitt’s social media post by saying “we…watched the speech. He called Greenland ‘Iceland’ four times. In addition to the other moments in which he belittled Greenland as a ‘piece of ice.’”

In an appearance after the speech on CNN, Dale noted that Trump was wrong when he suggested that he "came up with" the idea of AI-related companies producing their own electricity, with Dale calling that claim--which the president has made before--"just pure fiction."

Trump repeated his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged,” and that he has ended “eight wars” so far in his second term in office. He also ranted about one of his favorite topics, windmills, with Dale describing the president’s claim that China has no wind farms “...



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