THE CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENT: Asked at a nearly two-hour press conference yesterday how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland for the US, President Trump replied tersely, “You’ll find out.”

  He also said he has not closed out the possibility of taking back the Panama Canal. “That’s sort of on the table,” he said.

  After the first year of his second term in office, “I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done,” he said.

  Trump arrived in Davos, Switzerland today for the World Economic Forum where he can be expected to carry on his campaigns for Greenland and such thinks as unplugging wind power. He was supposed to deliver the keynote speech, but arrived late after having to switch planes because of an electrical issue on Air Force One.

  Back in Washington during a rambling self-congratulatory speech at the White House, Trump arrived with a 31-page printout of what he claimed to be his accomplishments. He claimed to have ended eight wars saving millions of lives and blamed the Norwegian government, which does not control the Nobel Peace Prize, for denying him the Nobel. “Don’t let anyone tell you that Norway doesn’t control the shots,” he declared, “OK? It’s in Norway!” 

  He repeated his claim that he cut drug prices by 600 percent which, if true, would have drug companies paying the patients.

  Nonetheless, everything Trump has touched is better than it’s ever been, like nobody’s ever seen before. “We took a country that was dead and it’s the hottest country in the world right now.”

  It would be hard to keep up with his lies and fantasies about grocery prices, foreign investment, and California withholding water during the wildfires to save an endangered fish. 

  In one concession to humility, Trump said he felt bad about the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis but … always Trump … he said he hopes Good’s father is still one of his supporters.

OH CANADA: In an indirect reference to Trumpism while speaking at Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.” He got a standing ovation.

STOCK DROP: Stocks dropped two percent yesterday as investors came back to their screens with news of Trump threatening tariffs on allies and trading partners who do not support his drive for the US takeover of Greenland.

  In a sign that investors are losing confidence in the US itself under Trump, both the value of the dollar and US government debt went down.

THE REGIME: 

— The Justice Department subpoenaed at least five Minnesota officials  including  Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in an investigation into whether state and local leaders obstructed federal immigration enforcement efforts, CNN reports.

— Lindsey Halligan, the lawyer appointed by Trump to be US Attorney and prosecute his enemies in the Eastern District of Virginia, left office yesterday after getting a shove from a federal judge who said she was not legally appointed or serving. 

  Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee, wrote in his order that, “In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States attorney for this district in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”  Novak also wrote that the Justice Department’s motion defending Halligan’s position “contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this court, particularly the Department of Justice.”

— The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments today over the legality of President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the independent Federal Reserve Board who was appointed by Joe Biden. Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who Trump also wishes he could fire, has said he will attend.

— It’s been just over a month since the Department of Justice was required to release all of the files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and they have released about 1 percent.

— Incidents in which immigration agents have hauled people out of their cars, roughed up detainees, pepper sprayed onlookers, and grabbed American citizens  are too numerous to mention.

  On Sunday, agents in St. Paul, Minnesota busted into a home and hauled out a shirtless man wearing boxer shorts and Crocs with a blanket over his shoulders  in freezing weather.  The man was ChongLy Scott Thao, 57, a Hmong immigrant and naturalized citizen with no criminal record. He was released after an hour of being driven around and questioned.

  The Department of Homeland Security later said they had been looking for two sex offenders but did not explain why they took the wrong man.

THE OBIT PAGE:  David Rosen, a Brooklyn-born entrepreneur who transformed his photo booth business in Japan into Sega Enterprises, the company that introduced what would now be considered crudely pixilated video games like Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog, and NHL ’94, died on Christmas Day at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95.

  Rosen began in the 1950s with coin-operated game machines and pioneered home gaming systems, becoming a leader in what is now a $200 billion industry and time suck for millions of people around the world.

THE SPIN RACK:  California Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to Block the state’s new congressional redistricting map that favors Democrats, approved by voters in November. A wave of mid-decade redistricting efforts was started by Republicans in Texas. — Actress Melissa Gilbert broke into tears yesterday as a New Mexico judge released her husband, actor Timothy Busfield, from custody while he faces child sexual abuse charges. — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child. 

BELOW THE FOLD: Billy McFarland, creator of the disastrous Fyre Festival, says he will jet ski from Honduras to Venezuela.

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