Foreign skepticism about U.S. reliability under Trump could undermine the success of the State Department’s inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial meeting this week.

On the Monday, January 26, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Trump says he’s secured a win on Greenland, even as key questions remain unanswered. USA TODAY White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers breaks down the stakes and the gaps.

Tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to control Greenland have caused a rift between MAGA and Europe's far-right

President Donald Trump’s Greenland gambit alarmed Europe’s mainstream and has even led some nationalist leaders – once proud of their ties to Trump – to distance themselves from him.

Presidents have found second terms worse than their first. Even the oft-unprecedented Trump may not be immune.

The real estate deal of the century is looking less like a whim and more like a calculated move for national survival.

After President Donald Trump said suddenly Wednesday that he had secured the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland, nearly everyone involved was conspicuously tight-lipped about what it entailed.

Reports from President Donald Trump’s latest visit to the annual dinner of the Alfalfa Club on Saturday night claim that the President joked about “buying Greenland” during his speech there. With the country in a state of political turmoil like never before,