Trump’s Davos Speech ‘Barrage Of False Claims’

TOPSHOT – US president Donald Trump delivers a speech on the Congres heart throughout the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual assembly in Davos, on January 21, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP by way of Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump went off script to rant, complain but once more concerning the 2020 presidential election and he even appeared to confuse countries throughout his speech Wednesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, with NCS’s in-house truth checker Daniel Dale describing the speech as a “barrage of false claims.”

The speech, which was the spotlight of the president’s trip–which bought off to a tough begin when Air Force One needed to flip again after a minor electrical issue–and discovered Trump telling world leaders that he did not intend to use force to take Greenland, which he appeared to confuse at instances with Iceland:

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that Trump didn’t “mix up” Greenland and Iceland, however NCS’s Dale responded to Leavitt’s social media publish 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 look after the speech on NCS, Dale famous that Trump was fallacious when he steered that he “came up with” the thought of AI-related corporations producing their very own electrical energy, 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” thus far in his second time period in workplace. He additionally ranted about certainly one of his favourite matters, windmills, with Dale describing the president’s declare that China has no wind farms “an up-is-down reversal of reality”:

In his remarks on Greenland, the president bought his historical past fallacious, Dale advised NCS viewers. “Trump correctly noted that the US built military facilities in Greenland during World War II when Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany and unable to protect Greenland,” Dale mentioned, “but he then complained, ‘After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?’”

Dale famous that Greenland was by no means a US possession that any president may “give back” to Denmark. In all, Dale mentioned Trump “repeated numerous long-debunked false claims about foreign affairs, the economy and other issues.”

On Tuesday, as Trump marked his first full yr again in workplace, Dale reported on what he described because the president’s “top 25 lies of 2025,” which included most of the identical falsehoods Trump repeated in Davos. “To mark his first year back in office, President Trump is at the White House podium repeating many of the false claims on my list of his top 25 lies of 2025 – rigged 2020 election, 600% reduction in prescription drug prices, $18 trillion in investment, Venezuela’s emptied prisons – plus a bunch of others.”

One of the Democrats prone to run to exchange Trump in 2028, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, was in Davos and advised NCS that the speech “was remarkably boring and insignificant.”

Newsom mentioned Trump didn’t have “anything new” for Americans, and dismissed the fixed discuss Greenland as a distraction. “He was never going to invade Greenland,” Newsom advised NCS’s Kaitlan Collins. “It was never real.”