Good morning, everyone. Today marks one year since Donald Trump returned to office—and the impact of this past year is unmistakable.
Last night alone, the president unleashed a disturbing barrage of Truth Social posts: sharing private messages with world leaders, posting an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States, and threatening France with two hundred percent tariffs. The fallout was immediate—a sitting member of Congress is now publicly calling for the invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
At the same time, we are standing on the edge of another major shift. In just two days, TikTok will be under new ownership aligned with this White House, and the consequences are already visible. My content is being throttled. My reach has dropped sharply. This is not subtle—and it is not accidental.
The goal is clear: control the narrative by silencing independent voices. But I will not stop.
We are expanding—here and across other platforms. We will adapt. We will push through. And we will reach millions with the truth, whether those in power want it heard or not.
Here’s what you missed:
- Donald Trump spent the overnight hours posting several times on Truth Social while on his way to Davos for the World Economic Forum. Significant concern grew in the United States as several of these messages included personal messages sent by world leaders to Trump that were meant to remain private. Here is one from France’s President Emmanuel Macron:
- Here is a second from NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte:
- Donald Trump threatened French President Emmanuel Macron with 200% U.S. tariffs on French wine and champagne unless France joins his proposed global “Board of Peace,” a $1 billion-per-country initiative framed as mediating Gaza but criticized as coercive and potentially undermining the UN.
- Trump further posted an AI generated image of himself sitting in the Oval Office with European leaders with a map of North America. The map had the United States flag over Greenland and Canada:
- Trump’s latest posts have led to one Congresswoman, Yassamin Ansari, to call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked:
- Trump further attacked the United Kingdom and reiterated his need to purchase Greenland from Denmark, or seize the island by force:
- Finland's Leader this morning spoke to the Washington Post and is trying hard to get Donald Trump into a sauna to figure out diplomatic issues: “It’s better to pause — go to a sauna, take a proper steam bath — and only then look for a solution. If we managed to convince President Trump to go to a sauna, I think we would achieve something,” he said.
- Trump again threatened Don Lemon and others in Minneapolis, demanding that criminal charges be brought against them:
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged Europe at the World Economic Forum to “take a deep breath” and not retaliate on trade, reaffirming Donald Trump’s view that Greenland is essential to U.S. security while warning tariffs remain possible if Denmark refuses to cede it, even as he insisted NATO is more secure than ever and trade talks with the European Union will proceed.
- Senate Democrats cut a deal on ICE funding. Senator Patty Murray says the full-year DHS funding bill adds new constraints on ICE, including mandating twenty million dollars for body-worn cameras, while warning that without such legislation ICE can still operate freely using a large Republican-created slush fund even during a CR or shutdown. In exchange, ICE will get $10 billion in new funding and CBP will get $18.3 billion. Here are some new “accountability” measures Democrats have obtained from DHS:
- A naturalized U.S. citizen in Minnesota said ICE officers forcibly detained him nearly naked during a raid, causing fear and humiliation, before releasing him without explanation, as DHS claimed he matched the description of suspects—an account his family disputes amid broader criticism of aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
- According to NBC News, after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, a New Hampshire Episcopal bishop warned that Christians may be entering a “new era of martyrdom” marked by peaceful, nonviolent resistance, prompting White House backlash amid ongoing disputes over the shooting and aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
- ICE reported a third detainee death in forty-four days at Camp East Montana, a large tent-style detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, where a thirty-six-year-old Nicaraguan man was found unresponsive and pronounced dead amid growing congressional concerns over safety as detentions surge under the Trump administration.
- Russia launched a massive overnight assault on Ukraine’s power grid with hundreds of drones and missiles, cutting heat to thousands of buildings in Kyiv during extreme cold even as Ukrainian officials push U.S.-led peace talks and warn that the continued attacks are undermining diplomacy.
- A powerful snowstorm triggered a massive chain-reaction crash involving more than one hundred vehicles, including dozens of semitrailer trucks, on Interstate 196 in western Michigan, causing multiple injuries but no reported deaths and forcing prolonged road closures amid dangerous winter conditions.
See you soon.
— Aaron