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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. He did, however, keep last year’s promise to attend the 2026 meeting in person, after some travel snafus.
Trump’s speech Wednesday covered the war in Ukraine, his ongoing animosity towards windmills, insults for Canada and Europe, recycled claims about the 2020 election being “rigged,” and his ongoing demands for Greenland — including several awkward mix-ups between Greenland and Iceland.
Dale followed along with Trump’s speech to fact-check it in real time, posting the commentary on his X account.
Additional tweets by Dale are quoted below:
Among other issues, President Trump’s list of “eight wars” “settled” includes an Ethiopia-Egypt diplomatic dispute that wasn’t a war, a mystery Serbia-Kosovo situation that wasn’t a war, the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that isn’t over, and the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict that flared back up again last month.
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