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Transcript: President Trump White House Briefing on Greenland, Iran & Venezuela 

Brief Notes: U.S. President Donald Trump joins White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for a high-stakes briefing on surging global tensions over Greenland, Iran, and Venezuela, just one year into his second term. From Arctic sovereignty and NATO friction to Iran diplomacy and Venezuela’s oil leverage, Trump outlines his administration’s next moves on some of the world’s most volatile flashpoints. He also touts his economic record, border security crackdown, and “accomplishments book” while fielding combative questions from the press on immigration, crime, and trade. Watch this extended session for unfiltered answers, sharp exchanges, and real-time signals of where U.S. foreign and domestic policy is headed ahead of Davos 2026. 

Opening Remarks: One Year Anniversary

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Wow, that’s a big crowd. That’s a lot of people. I think it’s like a record. So, these are accomplishments. We have a lot of accomplishments. And as you know, this is the anniversary, first anniversary, January 20th. And it’s been an amazing period of time. We have a book that I’m not going to read to you, but these are the accomplishments of what we’ve produced, all page after page after page. Individual things. I could stand here and read it for a week and we wouldn’t be finished. But we’ve done more than any other administration has done by far in terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars. Nobody’s really seen very much like it.

Minnesota Immigration Enforcement

I think it’s appropriate that because Minnesota is so much in the fray, and I say to my people all the time, and they’re so busy doing other things, they don’t say it like they should. They’re apprehending murderers and drug dealers and a lot of bad people. And these are just some of the more recent ones that we have. And I can show you some of the people. Vicious. Many of them murderers. These are all out of Minnesota, just Minnesota. I say, why don’t you talk about that more? Because people don’t know. Do you want to live with these people? International murder. These are people that are living, were, if they’re apprehended, and either put in jails in their country from where they came, and the countries respect us, and so they actually put them there. In the old days, they didn’t respect our country. Biden wouldn’t do this because he let them all in. You know, if you didn’t have open border policies of Biden, none of this, all of the things that we all of the time that we spent talking about Minnesota and everything else, most of them are coming from out of the country. And it’s been caused by a previous administration.

Look at this, one after one. Boy, these are rough characters. These are all criminal, illegal aliens that, in many cases, they’re murderers. They’re drug lords, drug dealers. They’re the mentally insane. Some of them who are brutal killers, they’re mentally insane. They’re killers, but they’re insane. These are just in Minnesota and California. It’s worse. In other states, it’s worse. Now, Minnesota, the crime is incredible. The financial crimes are incredible. And the problem is because of the agitators and insurrectionists, whatever you want, troublemakers, but they’re paid agitators and insurrectionists.

Financial Fraud in Minnesota

Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion, at a minimum, is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They’ve taken it. Somalians, can you imagine? And they don’t do it. A lot of very low-IQ people, they don’t do it. Other people work it out, and they get them money, and they go out and buy Mercedes-Benzes. And they come from here. They have no money. They never had money. They never had a life. They never had a government. They never had a country, because there’s basically no country. Somalia is not even a country. They don’t have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it’s considered just about the worst in the world. They come here, and they become rich, and they don’t have a job. I was told that Ilhan Omar is worth $30 million. She never had a job. She’s a crooked congressman.

ICE Operations and Dangerous Criminals

So, here’s another one. And I have — oh, by the way, we just took out — these are all what ICE is doing. And it’s a dangerous job. These are rough. These are rough people. Weapons. This one here is very bad. I’m going through this because I think we have plenty of time. I’m going to a place — beautiful place in Switzerland, where we’ll be. I’m sure I’m very happily awaited for. In Switzerland, they don’t know about this. They don’t have this problem. They have other problems, but they don’t have this problem. Look. Killed somebody. And these are rough people. These are not — this was all allowed into our country through open borders.

These dumbest policies — you know, men and women, sports is dumb. But, to me, having an open border for the world to come in — drug dealers and prisoners. Venezuela, as an example, opened their prisons into the United States. That’s why — one of the reasons I felt so strongly against Venezuela now. I’m loving Venezuela. They’ve been working with us so well. It’s been so nice. And an unbelievably nice woman also did a very incredible thing. As you know, a few days ago, she’s — we’re talking to her. And maybe we can get her involved in some way. I’d love to be able to do that. Maria is — maybe we can do that. But we’re dealing with the people — invented the President — and all of the people in Venezuela. And we’ve been doing great. The oil companies are getting ready to make massive investments there. They have more oil than even Saudi Arabia.

Criminal Records from Minnesota

There you go. These are real. These are rough ones. This is all Minnesota. Every one of them.