Trump started the briefing by showing a stack of photos of people who had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, the site of large-scale raids and counter-protests as well as the fatal shooting of an American citizen by an ICE agent. Trump also took questions, many of which addressed foreign policy, including his efforts to acquire Greenland, his establishment of a "Board of Peace" to oversee reconstruction in Gaza, and the state of the government in Venezuela after the U.S. capture of its then-leader, Nicolás Maduro. In addition, experts have cautioned PolitiFact that some of the $9.6 trillion in pledges may not come to fruition and others are unrealistically large compared to the gross domestic product of the countries involved.
Author: Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact, Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact
Published at: 2026-01-20 23:59:25
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