Trump hints at US military action in Greenland as Biden reveals details about private meeting: Live updates

Donald Trump gave his first rambling press conference of the new year at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, bafflingly leaping from one topic to another.

Ostensibly arranged to announce new foreign investment in the US, the president-elect took the opportunity to attack Joe Biden over the transition process and refused to rule out using military or economic coercion to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Trump further railed against windmills, electric heaters, water pressure, soap, dishwashers, Canada and the legal cases brought against him in 2023.

At one point, he said he wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and then claimed Hezbollah might have been at the US Capitol on January 6 2021.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg with a full report on Trump’s alarming performance.

The president-elect may not be inaugurated for another 12 days but he has been pretty outspoken on world events throughout the transition period, yesterday shockingly hinting that he could send in the US military to annex Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal.

For all that he has, so far, still not said a single word about the wildfires currently raging through the suburbs of Los Angeles, endangering American lives.

You may recall Trump dismissing a major California wildfire during his last term in the White House as the result of poor “forest management” rather than climate change.

What has he been doing? Posting memes about his fantasy of incorporating Canada into the United States, of course.

If you are interested in the environmental disaster currently tearing through California, you can follow live coverage in our dedicated liveblog below.

A stunning order from District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday arrived hours after the former president and his co-defendants urged the courts to prevent special counsel Jack Smith from publishing a report that is expected to detail his investigations, which he effectively drew to a close following his presidential election victory.

Cannon — who was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2020 — is effectively ordering the Department of Justice to reject guidelines that put decisions about special counsel reports in the hands of the attorney general.

The former president turned president-elect had ostensibly called a small group of reporters from a hand-picked selection of news outlets to his Mar-a-Lago residence to announce a new $20 billion investment in American data centers by an Emirati billionaire, Hussain Sajwani, with whom his eponymous real estate and hospitality firm has partnered on several Trump-branded projects in the Persian Gulf region.

Things then took a turn as Andrew Feinberg reports.

Donald Trump ranted about Joe Biden’s 625 million acre offshore drilling ban in the Atlantic and wrongly claimed it covered almost “the whole ocean.”

“Take an acre, you have a house on a half-acre or a quarter-acre, or an acre, you have a big deal,” the President-elect exclaimed during a wild press conference on Tuesday. “Now you multiply that by 625 million acres. That’s like… it feels like the whole ocean!”

However, Trump’s math was off by some margin, as Mike Bedigan reports.

Musk has become one of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest confidantes and has spent nearly “every single day” (including New Year’s Eve) at Mar-a-Lago, which has become Trump’s transition headquarters.

Michelle Del Rey has the story.

The president-elect has desperately fought to return to the White House with a clear record. But after his latest courtroom failures to overturn his conviction and sentence, Trump is set to enter office as the first criminally convicted president in U.S. history.

It’s a question for the ages. Why is this a thing?

Kelly Rissman has the story.