From kidnapping the Venezuelan president to unleashing a masked paramilitary force on his own people, and from threatening to invade Greenland to sulking over the Nobel Peace Prize in an unhinged letter to the Norwegian prime minister, Donald Trump has rarely appeared so volatile — or so dangerous. “He believes in the second term that nobody can stop him. In the first term, he didn't really know his way around the White House. He didn't know his way around the political machines.

Source: Irish Examiner January 21, 2026 03:43 UTC