During a White House briefing room presser on January 20, 2026, President Donald Trump addressed reporters in a wide-ranging, sometimes jumbled speech. He touched on immigration, crime, tariffs, and his controversial push for Greenland, often repeating old claims and veering across topics.
Trump began by greeting the press and pointing to a binder of accomplishments on the table in front of him. He said, “These are accomplishments — a lot of accomplishments.” He added, “I could stand here and read it for a week, and we wouldn’t be finished.”
Trump: 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. pic.twitter.com/PBcVc2wLLH
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 20, 2026
On immigration enforcement and crime, Trump returned to familiar tough rhetoric. Speaking about federal actions in Minnesota, he continued broad attacks on policies and communities he called problematic. He said: “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.”
Trump on Somali immigrants: “They never had a life. They never had a government. They never had a country because it’s basically no country. Somalia’s 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… pic.twitter.com/qNEW4ui6NJ
— Crooked Media (@CrookedMedia) January 20, 2026
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At other points, Trump repeated his long-standing claims about the 2020 election. He said, without offering new evidence: “Joe Biden rigged the election.”
The president also addressed domestic statistics, including inflation. Trump said: “We have very little inflation. We have reduced inflation to a normal number now.” On the press corps gathered that day, Trump remarked on the crowd. He told reporters he thought it was “a record” for the number of journalists in the briefing room.
Trump also brought up the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a shift from earlier comments by administration officials. He called it “a horrible thing.” He said of her father, “He was all for Trump. Loved Trump, and it’s terrible… I hope he still feels that way.”
Turning to the economy, Trump praised what he called his signature legislative win. He told reporters his administration had passed “a great big beautiful bill” that delivered what he described as the largest tax cuts in U.S. history. He pointed to policies eliminating taxes on tips, Social Security income, and overtime pay, while allowing deductions on car loan interest only for vehicles built in the United States.
Trump said tariffs had forced automakers from Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Japan to move production to American soil, arguing, “They can’t pay the tariffs, so they build here.” He added that more auto plants were being built than ever before, the military had been rebuilt, the economy was “the best it’s ever been,” and claimed the federal deficit had already been cut by 27% in a single year.
President Trump delivered the largest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on social security as part of the Big, Beautiful Bill signed into law. pic.twitter.com/6TlnXe04oA
— Geoffrey A. Fields (@Gmoney__23) January 20, 2026
The briefing also included Trump’s statements about foreign policy, particularly his continuing push to assert U.S. control over Greenland. While he did not read a verbatim quote of a letter in the room, he reiterated his position that “Greenland is imperative for National and World Security” and that “there can be no going back” on U.S. efforts.
Trump also spoke about his diplomatic outreach, saying, “Nobody’s done more for NATO than I have… I think that we will work something out where NATO’s going to be very happy… but we need Greenland for security purposes.”
When asked if he remained committed to keeping the U.S. in NATO, he replied, “I’ve had such a good relationship… I think NATO’s been good. Sometimes it’s overrated, sometimes it’s not… NATO, whether you like it or not, it’s only as good as we are. If NATO doesn’t have us, NATO isn’t very strong.”
During the briefing Trump also referenced trade actions he has threatened or pursued, including tariffs on European nations that have resisted U.S. proposals related to Greenland. One widely reported earlier comment tied tariff threats to the matter, though the presser itself focused on broader themes.
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