Análisis por Christian Edwards, CNN

La Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU. presenta una imagen del tipo de nación que la administración Trump quiere ver en Europa: culturalmente cohesionada, militarmente fuerte, con bajos niveles de delincuencia e inmigración, y de “mayoría europea”, es decir, blanca.

Y si ese país puede enriquecerse fabricando un producto que el resto del mundo quiera comprar, mucho mejor

¿Cómo sería un país así? Dinamarca podría ser un buen comienzo. Tiene una de las leyes de inmigración más estrictas de Europa y una de las tasas de criminalidad más bajas.

El servicio militar obligatorio es abrumadoramente blanco. Incluso fabrica los medicamentos que mantienen delgados a los estadounidenses.

Si su estado de bienestar es demasiado cómodo o sus políticas climáticas demasiado verdes, bueno, nadie es perfecto.

Pero en lugar de presentar a Dinamarca como un país con el que vale la pena trabajar, el presidente Donald Trump dedicó el primer mes del año a antagonizarlo con sus amenazas de confiscar Groenlandia, un territorio danés autónomo.

Aunque Trump finalmente dio marcha atrás, su táctica alarmó a la mayoría europea e incluso ha llevado a algunos líderes nacionalistas, antes orgullosos de sus vínculos con Trump, a distanciarse de él.

Jordan Bardella, presidente de la ultraderechista Agrupación Nacional francesa y protegido de Marine Le Pen, acusó a Trump de “coacción” y criticó duramente sus “ambiciones imperialistas”.

Alice Weidel, colíder del partido ultraderechista Alternativa para Alemania (AfD), quien hace apenas unas semanas elogió la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional como el inicio de un “renacimiento conservador”, afirmó que Trump había “violado una promesa fundamental de campaña: no interferir en otros países”.

El agresivo intento de Trump de anexar Groenlandia fue un error garrafal, según informaron analistas a CNN, lo que podría frustrar las aspiraciones de su administración de construir una alianza civilizatoria entre partidos europeos de extrema derecha.

Al amenazar la soberanía nacional de un país europeo, añadieron, el presidente ha socavado el nacionalismo que su administración pretende cultivar entre sus aliados europeos patriotas.

“Groenlandia fue un gran error de cálculo”, señaló Ivan Krastev, presidente del Centro de Estrategias Liberales en Sofía, Bulgaria.

Aunque Trump puede encontrar fácilmente apoyo en Europa con una agenda antinmigración, anti-woke y anti-verde, Krastev declaró que el presidente, sin darse cuenta, cruzó la línea al amenazar la soberanía nacional.

“Siempre se ha llamado a Trump nacionalista, pero es un nacionalista que no entiende el nacionalismo, particularmente el nacionalismo de otros”, comentó Krastev a CNN, describiendo a Trump como un nacionalista “sin historia”.

“En lo que se refiere a terrenos, su visión es la de un agente inmobiliario. Cree que su objetivo es gentrificar el mundo”, agregó.

En cambio, los principios de territorio y fronteras son casi sagrados para los nacionalistas europeos, quienes guardan un recuerdo visceral de lo que sucede cuando las fronteras se redibujan por la fuerza.

“El nacionalismo europeo es muy, muy sensible a la integridad territorial, porque esto fue en gran medida lo que destrozó a Europa antes”, añadió Krastev. “Por eso, para ellos, lo que hacía Trump es indefendible”.

Mientras los aspirantes a líderes de Francia y Alemania criticaron duram

By Betsy Klein, Riane Lumer, CNN

(CNN) — First lady Melania Trump wants you to know that her new documentary is not a documentary.

“Some have called this a documentary. It is not,” she told a crowd of Cabinet members, conservative influencers and minor celebrities gathered in the opera house of the newly rebranded Trump Kennedy Center for the film’s premiere Thursday evening.

“It is a creative experience that offers perspectives, insights and moments,” she said.

After more than a year of production, “Melania” is getting its debut, and the country is getting an education in what has become the lucrative business of being first lady.

Trump inked a $40 million deal with Amazon MGM Studios, plus a whopping $35 million marketing budget, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Asked how she would define success for the film, the first lady didn’t point to box office numbers or streaming statistics — because the deal has already been a win, in her view.

“I’m very proud of the film so people may like it, may don’t like it, and that’s their choice,” she told CNN as she walked the red carpet, which was actually black, in keeping with her creative vision.

She later added: “We achieved what we want to achieve. For myself, it’s already successful. I’m very proud of what we did.”

The film, which documents the 20 days around Trump’s return to the White House, marks an unprecedented move by a sitting first lady to profit off inside access to her private life — which is traditionally reserved for the post-presidency with less lucrative book deals and speaking engagements.

“She put this deal together as a private individual and she’s not an elected official, so I don’t see why we would restrict her in any way,” Marc Beckman, her agent and senior adviser, said on the red carpet.

Trump was still a private citizen during the presidential transition when the ink dried. But director Brett Ratner and his team were given access to the first lady well after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, flying aboard Air Force One as they documented the first couple’s trip to storm-ravaged North Carolina and, later, Pacific Palisades, still reeling from the California wildfires.

Reporters were not invited into Thursday’s screening. But the film is carefully curated, according to one source who attended, underscoring that Trump, as an executive producer on the project, had full editorial control. But there are a couple of new details from Inauguration Day preparations, the source said.

Among the notable scenes is one moment where Donald Trump questioned why the college football championship game was scheduled on the same day as his inauguration – and whether that was intentional. In another scene, Trump was told he would be riding to the US Capitol in the car with his predecessor, President Joe Biden, quipping, “That’ll be interesting.”

The first lady speaks personally in the film about losing her mom, Amalija Knavs, who died in January 2024. She also takes the audience behind the scenes of picking out her outfits and planning the day’s events, narrating it all.

The president offered an early review of the not-documentary-documentary Thursday night.

“I got to see it for the first time the other night. It’s really good. Glamorous – very glamorous. We need some glamour,” he told reporters.

He had uncharacteristically skipped two opportunities to take questions from the press earlier in the day, while running characteristically late. But but he arrived at the premiere on time and ready to chat.

It was his wife’s bi

By Phil Mattingly, CNN

Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce Friday his intent to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chair, according to two people involved in the process.

Trump, who has been weighing the decision for several months and had narrowed down the list of candidates to four in recent weeks, told reporters on Thursday night he had finalized his pick and would formally make the announcement on Friday.

“I’m going to be announcing, I think, a really great choice tomorrow,” Trump said while arriving at the premiere of first lady Melania Trump’s documentary. Trump did not name his selection.

Warsh met with Trump at the White House on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter, and administration officials have been preparing since for the former Fed governor to be Trump’s nominee.

The White House and Warsh didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump declined to publicly name his choice, and administration officials cautioned that nothing was final until announced by Trump directly. Several officials noted that Trump has shifted his view on the best candidate several times over the course of the process.

But Trump appeared set in his decision on Thursday night, and the preparations for a White House announcement were underway, the people said.

“It’s going to be somebody that is very respected, somebody that’s known to everybody in the financial world,” Trump said. “And I think it’s going to be a very good choice.”

Warsh, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, BlackRock executive Rick Rieder and Fed Governor Christopher Waller were the final four candidates under consideration. Trump held in-person interviews with each of the final four candidates as the final stage of a process that concluded earlier this month.

Warsh has long been mentioned by Trump as one of his top candidates for the role and met with Trump in December for his formal interview. The sit-down was viewed positively by Trump’s advisors, and Trump told associates that he thought Warsh did well. He also made clear that Warsh, according to one person who spoke to him about the meeting, “looked the part.”

Warsh served as a Fed governor for five years after being nominated by President George W. Bush. He’s been considered for top economic roles in the first and second Trump administrations and was viewed as a possible Treasury secretary pick before Trump tapped Scott Bessent.

Warsh was also considered by Trump in 2017 for the Fed chair role, which ultimately went to Jerome Powell.

“A lot of people think that this is somebody that could have been there a few years ago,” Trump told reporters Thursday night.

Trump quickly soured on Powell in his first term and has attacked and criticized the chair and the Fed relentlessly throughout the first year of his second term.

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By Michal Ruprecht, CNN

(CNN) — The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which was named after the village in Malaysia where the first known patient lived, is part of the same family of viruses as measles. Despite that, it’s not as infectious as measles, but it is significantly more deadly.

How is it transmitted?

Nipah is a zoonotic virus, meaning it can be transmitted from animals to humans. Most commonly, that happens through direct contact with an infected pig or bat, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eating fruits or fruit products — such as raw date palm juice — contaminated with urine or saliva from infected fruit bats also contributes to spread.

It can also spread directly from person to person. Transmission, however, occurs through very close contact with the infected individual.

What are the signs of illness?

It can take four to 14 days for symptoms to appear after a person is infected, according to WHO, and asymptomatic cases are rare.

The first signs of infection are non-specific and include flu-like symptoms like fever, headaches, muscle pain, vomiting and sore throat. In about two-thirds of patients, the disease rapidly progresses, and coma can strike within five to seven days. Some infections also lead to respiratory symptoms like cough and abnormal chest X-rays.

Most patients show changes in the fluid that surrounds the brain, commonly seen in other viral brain infections. Changes caused by tissue death can be seen on brain imaging, and electrical activity of the brain predicts the severity of the disease.

How dangerous is it?

The virus is classified by the CDC as biosafety level four — the highest category, with the most dangerous pathogens like Ebola — and it has the potential to serve as an agent for bioterrorism.

Though there have been only a few outbreaks, Nipah is considered a public health threat because of its high case fatality rate, potential for human-to-human transmission, capacity to cause outbreaks and lack of approved vaccines or treatment.

In severe cases, the virus can attack parts of the brain that control basic life functions like eye movement, heart rate and blood pressure, causing permanent damage.

Those who survive often experience fatigue and changes in how their nervous system works. These effects often persist for years.

How is it diagnosed?

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