Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Donald Trump and Jensen Huang both took the stage at Davos today, giving attendees a myriad of reasons to feel assured or panic stricken about humanity’s future, depending on your point of view.

In a delayed and wide-ranging speech, the American president tilted at windmills, expressed his love for Europe while lamenting its demise, impersonated Emmanuel Macron's voice, and suggested he wouldn’t use military force to take Greenland, which he described as a “big, beautiful piece of ice”.

“We won’t get anything unless I use excessive strength and force, when we would be unstoppable. I won’t use force,” he said. But he added, the US would remember if it didn’t get what it wanted.

“[It’s] very important we use it for national and international security,” he said in a Q&A session afterwards, adding: “We’ll see what happens.”

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