Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. His hour-plus-long speech at the World Economic Forum was laden with insults about Europe’s military capabilities, its economy and its culture, saying countries in the region are “destroying themselves.” He also slammed Europe’s support for Ukraine, even though since Trump’s election, Europe has picked up most of the burden of supplying Ukraine with weapons. The only time in its 76-year history that NATO invoked its Article 5 guarantee of collective defense was after 9/11, in defense of the U.S. And Denmark lost more troops fighting for the U.S. in Afghanistan than any other ally.
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Published at: 2026-01-21 22:54:48
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