Donald Trump Greenland LIVE: US president to present main replace at White House
A year to the day since he took office, Donald Trump is tonight expected to speak to the White House Press Corps about his accomplishments. And one thing you can say about Trump is that he does a lot of things in a short space of time.
Since Christmas, he’s: invaded Venezuela and abducted the country’s leader, threatened to invade Greenland, slapped half of Europe with eye-watering tariffs, invaded Minnesota with thousands of ICE heavies who are supposed to be arresting illegal immigrants, but seem to be spending a lot of time harassing (and occasionally shooting) innocent, unarmed US citizens and leaked private messages sent to him by the President of France. He’s put both the transatlantic special relationship and Nato in the deepest peril either have seen for decades. And if you think he’s planning on slowing down, you haven’t been paying attention.
We’ll have all the latest updates from Trump’s press conference as they happen, stay with us.
Trump posts Truth Social spree ahead of press conference
There was a collective sharp intake of breath this afternoon, when notifications started pinging up on phones that Donald Trump had been posting on Truth Social again.
He started by posting a whole bunch of stuff about ICE and wild conspiracy theories.
“The Department of Homeland Security and ICE must start talking about the murderers and other criminals that they are capturing and taking out of the system,” he wrote, as if they’ve not been trying to spin their migrant purge that way since the campaign.
He posted a video of a man in a trucker cap claiming that Somali Americans are too stupid to come up with a plan to defraud the US government on their own, and must be in the thrall of some kind of shadowy force in control of “them”.
And he retweeted a lengthy string of conspiracy theories about election rigging and voting machines, one of which was from an account called “QThestorm”.
At the time of writing, Trump’s most recent post takes him back to the subject of Greenland and the Nato alliance.
“No single person, or President, has done more for NATO than President Donald J. Trump,” he wrote. “If I didn’t come along, there would be no NATO right now!!! It would have been in the ash heap of History. Sad, but TRUE!!! President DJT.”
Trump to take to the podium?
Members of the press in the White House briefing room noticed a change in the furniture that gives a hint of what we have coming from this briefing.
Instead of the podium being blank, or having the White House logo on it as usual, it carries the Presidential seal – which means Trump himself is almost certainly going to address those present.
