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January 22, 2026 1:01 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Thursday…

I’m not sharing his schedule for today. He’s still in Davos. This morning he participated in the signing ceremony for the newly established Board of Peace.

This is who is on the board and participated in the signing event.

  • Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, minister of the prime minister’s court, Bahrain
  • Nasser Bourita, minister of foreign affairs, Morocco
  • Javier Milei, president, Argentina
  • Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister, Armenia
  • Ilham Aliyev, President, Azerbaijan
  • Rosen Zhelyazkov, prime minister, Bulgaria
  • Viktor Orban, prime minister, Hungary 
  • Prabowo Subianto, president, Indonesia
  • Ayman Al Safadi, minister of foreign affairs, Jordan
  • Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, president, Kazakhstan
  • Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, president, Kosovo
  • Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, prime minister, Pakistan
  • Santiago Peña, president, Paraguay
  • Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, president, Qatar
  • Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, minister of foreign affairs, Saudi Arabia
  • Hakan Fidan, minister of foreign affairs, Turkey
  • Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, special envoy to the U.S. for the UAE
  • Shavkat Mirziyoyev, president, Uzbekistan
  • Gombojavyn Zandanshatar, prime minister, Mongolia

A long list of countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy and other European nations, were absent from the signing, and some have specifically rejected the invitation.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC on Thursday that it “won’t be one of the signatories today,” citing concerns over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to join.

Spain did not send a representative to the signing, with an invitation for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to join “under review,” according to Spanish media.

[snip]

The Board of Peace was endorsed by the United Nations Security Council in November last year. It was originally established to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but now has a far broader mandate, including promoting global stability and conflict resolution around the world.

CNBC.com. 01/22/2026.

[snip]

Last week the White House confirmed a founding “Executive Board,” to “operationalize the Board of Peace’s vision.”

CNBC.com. 01/22/2026.

These are the members of the Executive Board.

  • Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State
  • Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
  • Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law
  • Sir Tony Blair, former U.K. prime minister
  • Marc Rowan, CEO, Apollo
  • Ajay Banga, World Bank president
  • Robert Gabriel, security advisor

I have seen that the incompetent ones included Belgium as one of the members of the Board of Peace; I have not seen it, but I have seen where Belgium said no we aren’t.

He also met with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, both men say the meeting was “good”.

President Zelenskyy:

Show more =’s We also spoke today about air defense for Ukraine. Our previous meeting with President Trump helped strengthen the protection of our skies, and I hope that this time we will reinforce it further as well. I thanked him for the previous package of air defense missiles and asked for an additional one. Protecting lives, our resilience, and our joint diplomatic efforts. Thank you!


Yesterday, during his rambling appearance at the World Economic Forum, National Embarrassment publicly confused Greenland with Iceland. Instead of admitting the error, Propaganda Barbie rushed to Twitter to insist it never happened, attempting to gaslight the internet into believing maps are a matter of opinion.

Idiot Abroad said:

It’s the only reason I’m interested in doing it. But in doing it, I’m helping Europe. I’m helping NATO. When I and I’ve until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy right last time. Very smart man said, “He’s our daddy. He’s running it.” I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I’m asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It’s a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many many decades.

White House YouTube. 01/21/2026.

Idiot Abroad said:

I know we’d be there for them [NATO Allies]. I don’t know that they’d be there for us. So, with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat, and tears, I don’t know that they’d be there for us. They’re not there for us on Iceland. That I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So, Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money. But that dip is peanuts compared to what it’s gone up. And we have an unbelievable future in that stock. That stock market is going to be doubled.

White House YouTube. 01/21/2026.

Propaganda Barbie said:

Idiot Abroad said Iceland four separate times during that speech. Yes, he also referred to it once as “a piece of ice,” but every one of those references was wrapped around the word Iceland.

Propaganda Barbie is pretending those moments don’t exist and trying to shove the blame onto the media instead, which is exactly what propagandists do when the tape is inconvenient.


Following his unhinged appearance at the World Economic Forum, where he openly demanded Greenland as repayment for “everything we’ve done for the world,” he retreated to Lies Social and did what he does best: lied, then immediately taco’d.

He later told the press that the “framework” of the future deal is a “long-term deal”.

Idiot Abroad: It’s a deal that everybody’s very happy with.

Kaitlan Collins: Does it still include you? Does it still include? Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland? Like, you said, you wanted.

Idiot Abroad: It’s a long-term deal. It’s the ultimate long-term deal. And I think it puts everybody in a really good position, especially as it pertains to security and minerals and everything else.

Later the Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte told Fox News that status of Greenland was not discussed with the Idiot Abroad.

Bret Baier: Expanding, maybe U.S. military presence, but what I don’t hear is Greenland. Still, is it still under the Kingdom of Denmark in this framework deal?

Rutte: That issue did not come up anymore in my conversations tonight with the President, and he’s very much focused on what do we need to do to make sure that that huge Arctic region where changes taking place at the moment where the Chinese and Russian are more and more active. How we can protect it? That was really the focus our discussions.

Denmark has once again rejected any offer for the US to buy or take ownership of Greenland.

Yaroslav Trofimov links to the Statement from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, January 22, 2026:

“Security in the Arctic is a matter for the entire NATO alliance. Therefore, it is good and natural that it is also discussed between NATO’s Secretary General and the President of the United States. The Kingdom of Denmark has long worked for NATO to increase its engagement in the Arctic.”

The Danish government has coordinated our efforts with the Greenlandic government Naalakkersuisut throughout the process. We have been in close dialogue with NATO and I have spoken to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on an ongoing basis, including both before and after his meeting with President Trump in Davos.

NATO is fully aware of the position of the Kingdom of Denmark. We can negotiate on everything political; security, investments, economy. But we cannot negotiate on our sovereignty.

I have been informed that this has not been the case either. And of course, only Denmark and Greenland themselves can make decisions on issues concerning Denmark and Greenland.

The Kingdom of Denmark wishes to continue to engage in a constructive dialogue with allies on how we can strengthen security in the Arctic, including the US’s Golden Dome, provided that this is done with respect for our territorial integrity.

Statement from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, January 22, 2026.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is currently testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. In response, Different Day Same Puddle has gone into full meltdown mode on Lies Social, firing off roughly forty posts in the span of about two hours.

Most follow the same pattern his account has settled into lately: he posts a video without comment, then immediately reposts the same clip paired with some random stranger’s reaction, as if outsourcing his own thoughts one algorithmic stranger at a time.

Here are the meltdowns with his own words.

I’m gonna add bad polling numbers to my lawsuit.

Fake polls = 40 percent approvals.
Real polls = have been great!

Bad polls are “virtually, a criminal offense”.

Real Clear Polling.com:

Jack Smith is “deranged”.

He is just an unhinged man that’s been given far too much power by the American people.

This is an open thread

PS.

Tomorrow an attempt will be made to cover news outside of unhinged bullshit about the US owning Greenland and bad poll numbers being a criminal offense.

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