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By David Wright, CNN

(CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, long one of President Donald Trump’s chief trolls, took the routine this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – and got a globally televised rise out of the president.

Newsom was in the crowd Wednesday when Trump called him out during a speech in which he again demanded Denmark cede control of Greenland to the US but also moved through a range of domestic and international issues.

“We’re going to help the people in California,” Trump said. “We want to have no crime. I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin is a good guy.”

A camera found Newsom in the room, smiling and appearing to chuckle.

Trump added, “I would say this, if I were a Democrat governor, or whatever, I would call up Trump, I’d say, ‘Come on in. Make us look good.’”

The moment was quickly clipped online, becoming more fodder for Trump and Newsom’s social media teams and further highlighting Newsom’s presidential ambitions.

Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins afterward, Newsom said Trump’s address was “remarkably boring” and “remarkably insignificant.”

“There wasn’t anything new about that speech for the American audience,” the governor added. He also dismissed the president’s demands for the US to acquire Greenland, including threats of military action before Trump backed off the aggressive stance in his speech Wednesday.

Trump “was never going to invade Greenland,” he said.

“I don’t think the military force was ever real in the first place, but I think the tone reflected deep anxiety” among business leaders present at the forum, Newsom said.

The California governor’s insults in Davos weren’t reserved for the president. Talking to reporters on Tuesday before Trump’s arrival, he accused attendees of “rolling over” for Trump, remarking that “I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders.”

“I mean, handing out crowns, handing out – this is pathetic. Nobel Prizes that are being given away. I mean, it’s just pathetic. And I hope that people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean at least from an American perspective, it’s embarrassing,” he said.

Newsom’s social media team has mimicked Trump’s tone on social media, complete with all-caps sentences and “Thank you for your attention to this matter” signoffs, along with memes and AI-generated images that sometimes include personal attacks on critics.

In an interview on “The Late Show” on CBS last year, the California governor explained his approach to Trump.

“Everything we were trying to do to break through wasn’t working, so we decided to try something novel, called humor,” Newsom said. “We put a mirror up to Trump, and the absurdity of what’s going on in this country, the absurdity of Donald Trump.”

Newsom wasn’t the only potential 2028 candidate at Davos. Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and Kentucky’s Andy Beshear, participated in a forum on Wednesday.

Beshear spoke to CNN’s Collins after Newsom.

“The speech was dangerous, it was disrespectful, and it was unhinged,” Beshear said. “You saw him make fun of world leaders in the room, who we call friends. You saw him ramble on, in stories, and even try to do voices. This is really concerning and for the United States, frankly

By Chris Isidore, CNN

(CNN) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon limited his criticism of President Donald Trump in a question-and-answer session at Davos on Wednesday – with one notable exception.

Trump’s plan for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates, Dimon said, “would be an economic disaster.”

Speaking at the at the World Economic Summit in Switzerland, Dimon avoided taking a stance on many of Trump’s policies, including immigration, trade and soured relations with Europe and NATO over his demands for the United States to annex Greenland. He even dodged a question about whether US CEOs are scared to criticize Trump.

But the head of the largest US bank wasn’t restrained on a possible one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates. Trump earlier this month called for such a policy, saying in a social media post that the American public was being “ripped off.”

Trump told the Davos gathering later in the day that he planned to ask Congress to pass a one-year cap.

Dimon predicted widespread pain throughout the US economy should the proposal go into effect.

“We (JPMorgan Chase) would survive it, by the way,” he said. “(But) it would remove credit from 80% of Americans. And that is their backup credit.”

Dimon also suggested testing the 10% cap in a few states before rolling it out nationally. He identified two represented by more outspoken liberal senators – Vermont, represented by Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Massachusetts, represented by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He said those on the political left “would learn a real lesson” from such an experiment.

“The people crying the most won’t be the credit card companies,” Dimon predicted. “It’ll be the restaurants, the retailers, the travel companies, the schools, the municipalities because people will miss their water payments and this payment and that payment. It would be something else to watch.”

Dimon added, however, that he didn’t think a nationwide cap on rates would ever get passed by Congress.

But Dimon said other questions didn’t have yes-or-no answers, including if the Trump administration’s foreign policy was making the world safer and stronger.

“You guys always want a binary answer to everything,” Dimon said. “Is this a good foreign policy? I don’t know yet.”

Dimon added that while he had questions about immigration enforcement actions, he noted he had equal criticism for the Biden administration’s immigration record.

“I think it’s time for people to take a little bit of a deep breath,” he said. “That does not mean I like it all.”

Need to limit impact of AI job losses

Dimon also advocated for government action to cushion the blow of job losses due to AI.

“As a business person, my view is, don’t put your head in the sand,” he said. “We are going to deploy it. Will it eliminate jobs? Yes. Will it change jobs? Yes. We’ll add some jobs probably.”

Dimon, however, said governments should take steps to both offer support for those who lose their jobs as a result of AI and incentives to businesses so they don’t make massive job cuts leading to “social unrest.”

“I do think (the rollout of AI) may go too fast for society,” he said. “And if it goes too fast for society, that’s where government and business can collaborate together.”

Asked if he wanted governments to tell him couldn’t lay off people at JPMorgan Chase, he responded, “We would agree,” before adding “if we have to do that to save society.”

“I think it should be done at more of a local level where someone says to a JPMorgan, ‘Can

Por Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español

El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, defendió las políticas libertarias en el Foro de Davos, donde lanzó críticas al Gobierno de Venezuela y aseguró que el mundo está girando hacia ideas de libertad.

“El mundo ha comenzado a despertar. La mejor prueba de ello es lo que está pasando en América, con el renacer de las ideas de libertad. Por lo tanto, América será el faro de luz que vuelva a encender a todo Occidente”, expresó Milei. “Con ello, (América) pagará su deuda civilizatoria, como muestra de gratitud hacia sus bases en la filosofía griega, el derecho romano y los valores judeo-cristianos”, agregó.

El mandatario también criticó las políticas sociales, que según dijo causaron “daños aberrantes” en Venezuela, con una fuerte caída económica. Además, tildó al gobierno chavista como una “narcodictadura sangrienta”.

En cuanto a su visión de política económica, dijo que “no existen” los fallos de mercado, por lo que ve innecesaria cualquier intervención estatal. “La intervención del Estado es una violación a la libertad y a la propiedad privada; la desregulación en cambio, promueve rendimientos mayores, crecimiento y bienestar (…) El capitalismo de libre empresa es justo, es eficiente y además es el que genera mayor crecimiento para una sociedad”, expuso Milei, quien celebró la mejora de indicadores económicos de su gestión.

El presidente también dijo que “resulta inadmisible sacrificar a la justicia en nombre de la eficiencia” y afirmó que son caras de la misma moneda. Al hablar de la desregulación estatal, parafraseó en inglés su versión del lema del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump: “Make Argentina great again (hacer grande a Argentina otra vez)”.

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Por Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español

El presidente de Perú, José Jerí, declarará este miércoles ante la Comisión de Fiscalización y Contraloría del Congreso del país por hechos relacionados con dos empresarios chinos.

Jerí, quien termina su mandato de transición en poco más de cinco meses (el 28 de julio de 2026), se presentará ante esa comisión para “brindar sus declaraciones y formular las aclaraciones vinculadas” a las visitas de dichos empresarios, indicó el Congreso en su agenda oficial.

El mandatario tuvo una “reunión no registrada oficialmente” el pasado 26 de diciembre con uno de los empresarios chinos, mientras que, días después, Jerí visitó el negocio de ese empresario, según el informe del Congreso.

Estos hechos ya dieron pie a que la Fiscalía de Perú inicie una investigación sobre el presidente Jerí, quien recientemente se disculpó.

Jerí también hará aclaraciones ante informes de que recibió visitas de un segundo empresario chino en la sede del Palacio de Gobierno, indicó el Congreso.

El presidente de Perú aseguró que no va a renunciar y dijo que se pretende “afectar el proceso electoral”.

“Uno renunciaría si tuviera algo que ocultar. Yo no le he mentido al país, no he hecho nada ilícito”, declaró Jerí en una entrevista ofrecida el martes al Canal N de televisión. “Más bien, se está aprovechando la situación para atacar a la investidura presidencial y afectar el proceso electoral”.

El país celebrará elecciones generales el próximo 12 de abril, cuando los peruanos elegirán al próximo presidente de Perú.

Con estas elecciones cercanas, la figura presidencial en Perú nuevamente se ve envuelta en la tensión.

Jerí es el séptimo presidente en los últimos siete años. Tras la destitución de la entonces presidenta Dina Boluarte en octubre del año pasado, Jerí llegó al poder gracias a su cargo de presidente del Congreso peruano, y lo hizo a pesar de denuncias y cuestionamientos en su contra, acusaciones que ha negado.

Apenas unos días después de asumir el cargo de presidente, peruanos salieron a las calles para protestar contra Jerí. Estas manifestaciones se tornaron violentas tras el choque con la policía e incluso se registró la muerte de un manifestante por disparo de arma de fuego.

Desde entonces, Jerí adoptó una imagen de liderazgo, control y mano dura en temas de seguridad al estilo Bukele.

Ahora, en el Congreso que una vez presidió, Jerí se prepara para dar declaraciones que buscan distender la situación.

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By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland was filled with inaccurate claims – notably including false and misleading statements about NATO and Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory he is pushing for the US to acquire.

Trump also repeated numerous long-debunked false claims about foreign affairs, the economy and other issues. Here is a fact check of some of his remarks.

NATO

US benefits from NATO: Trump claimed: “So what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing, except to protect Europe from the Soviet Union and now Russia. I mean, we’ve helped them for so many years. We’ve never gotten anything.”

This is simply not true – even leaving aside arguments that the US has reaped important military, economic and political benefits from the existence of the alliance. NATO came to the defense of the US after the al Qaeda terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The alliance invoked Article 5, its collective defense provision, for the only time in its history, and member countries formed a coalition to fight a war in Afghanistan alongside US forces. Member countries fought there for years, and many of them suffered casualties. Denmark, for example, lost more than 40 soldiers, one of the alliance’s highest per-capita death rates.

NATO members’ defense spending: Trump also claimed that, “until I came along,” the US “was paying for virtually 100% of NATO,” adding, “We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO.” Trump’s “opinion” is factually inaccurate. NATO figures show that, in 2024, US defense spending made up about 63% of total NATO defense spending; in 2016, the year before Trump took office the first time, it was about 72%. Both figures are big, of course, but nowhere near the 100% figure he has used for years.

And the US contributes a smaller percentage to NATO’s own organizational budget. Under an agreed formula, the US provided about 16% of that budget at the time Trump returned to office in 2025. When he took office in 2017, the US was contributing about 22% of the budget.

Trump also said that, despite a NATO target of each member spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense, “most of the countries weren’t paying anything” until he came along. In fact, every NATO member was spending something on its own defense when Trump wasn’t president; total defense spending by non-US members was $292 billion in 2016 and an estimated $482 billion in 2024, NATO figures show. While it’s true that many members were slow to hit the 2% target, a majority of them were meeting it in 2024, NATO figures show, with 18 of the 31 members subject to the target at or above 2%.

In 2016, four NATO members were hitting the target; in 2020, the last year of Trump’s first term, it was eight members.

How NATO spending works: Trump repeated a claim he made on numerous occasions d