This is the online version of From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. The conference is usually a forum for discussion and (mostly) polite debate, but conference leaders say this year they had to confront “the elephant in the room head-on,” what they are calling “the period of wrecking ball politics” in a 120-page report ahead of this week’s event. To the contrary, this week, he posted a photo of European leaders in the Oval Office last summer — but added a doctored map making it look as though Greenland, Canada and Venezuela were all part of the U.S. And now he is threatening to block a bridge Canada built to create a link with Michigan, even though it didn’t cost the U.S. government a cent.
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Published at: 2026-02-11 23:26:01
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