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‘The News Has Once Again Gotten Dumber And More Exhausting’ Seth Meyers Returns To Late Night TV 

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Seth Meyers made his return to the Late Night desk after the holiday season this week. On Martin Luther King Jr Day in the US, Meyers came back to the screens to talk about where we’re at as a country as we make it through the first month of 2026. 

Meyers began by breaking down a list of updates from the White House including president Donald Trump’s secondhand Nobel peace prize and consistent line of thinking for taking over Greenland. 

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“In the past few days, Trump threatened to invade Greenland, which is a part of Denmark, because he didn’t win the Nobel peace prize, which he thinks is decided by Norway, which it’s not,” Meyers stated.

“The news has once again gotten dumber and more exhausting. Just another day living in Donald Trump’s snow globe, where the snow is cocaine and it never stops shaking,” he added. 

“America’s been through a lot over the years, but the one thing we’ve mercifully never had to deal with was a president who had a boner for winning awards. 

You’re the president of the United States – that should be reward enough! This guy gets elected, and his next thought is ‘better make room in the trophy case.’”  

Meyers continued by stating how Trump showed a “desperate craving for awards,” particularly the Nobel peace prize which he connected to Greenland. The Nobel committee exists in Norway but has nothing to do with the semi-autonomous territory managed by Denmark.

“It shouldn’t be this hard to make sense of what the president says and does on a daily basis.”

“Following Trump’s logic is like getting way too high and staring at a magic eye poster. But then it turns out it’s not even a magic eye poster, there’s no hidden image, it’s just a bunch of random letters. Turns out it’s an eye chart and you’re just totally baked at Warby Parker again,” Meyers joked. 

Trump claimed in an open letter to the Norwegian prime minister that he should have won the peace prize because he “stopped 8 wars PLUS” and used his losing of the prize as a justification for his threats to take over Greenland: “The world is not secure unless we have complete and total control of Greenland.”

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Meyers responded: “Also, ‘you don’t give me the Nobel peace prize, so now I have to invade another country’ is an insane thing to say.” 

“That’s like if I said to my kids, ‘You didn’t get me a World’s #1 Dad coffee mug, so I’m moving to Thailand to blow your inheritance, Sam Rockwell in White Lotus style.’” 

On Friday, the actual recipient of the Nobel peace prize, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, gave her medal to Trump in an attempt to gain an advantage with him for authorizing the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. The Nobel committee is not happy over this decision, with political leaders in Norway condemning Machado’s decision as “absurd,” and accusing Trump of being a “classic showoff” who takes credit for other people’s work.

The Nobel Peace Center also took to social media to state that “a medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel peace prize laureate cannot. When Machado initially revealed her plan, both the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute said that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred.” 

Kristi Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, stated that “this is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away. 

Trump will no doubt claim that he has now received it, but it cannot be transferred, and Trump’s repeated threats toward Greenland clearly demonstrate why it would have been madness to award him the prize.”

Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre Party, said: “Whoever has received the prize has received the prize. The fact that Trump accepted the medal says something about him as a type of person: a classic showoff who wants to adorn himself with other people’s honors and work.” 

“He actually accepted a secondhand Nobel peace prize – with someone else’s name on it,” Meyers joked. “That’s like if John Oliver offered me one of his Last Week Tonight Emmys and I accepted it.”  

“We used to be a country of laws and norms and independent agencies, co-equal branches of government. It was imperfect, it was flawed, but the president had to operate within a system.”

“His impulses were constrained. Now we live in a cocaine snow globe that shakes with the arbitrary whims of one man,” Meyers concluded. 

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Trump Claims U.S. Will Gain ‘total Access’ to Greenland Under Emerging Deal

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President Donald Trump said the United States is on track to secure sweeping military and security access to Greenland under a deal he says he personally negotiated, allowing the U.S. to establish as many military bases as it wants on the Arctic island.

Speaking to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo as he concluded a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said negotiations were still underway but claimed the outcome would overwhelmingly favor Washington.

“We will have everything we want. We’re getting everything we want at no cost,” Trump said. According to the president, the agreement would grant the U.S. unrestricted military access to the Danish territory, with no expiration date for its presence there.

“I’m not going to have to pay anything. We’re going to have total access to Greenland. We’ll have all the military access that we want.”

Trump added that the planned Golden Dome air defense system under development by the United States would extend coverage over Greenland as part of the arrangement. “We’re getting everything we wanted,” he said.

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While Trump has previously insisted the U.S. should formally acquire Greenland, he appeared to soften that position, suggesting ownership was no longer a prerequisite.

“Well, I don’t know if I could say that, but it could be. It’s possible. Anything’s possible,” Trump said when asked about U.S. ownership of the island.

Trump also pointed to market reaction following the announcement, saying investors responded positively after his comments became public.

“I noticed the stock market went up very substantially after we announced it,” he said. “But the details are being negotiated now. It will be very good.”

 The framework Trump described emerged from a Jan. 21 meeting in Davos with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and marked a notable shift from the president’s earlier confrontational stance toward U.S. allies.

In his address at the Swiss summit, Trump ruled out the use of military force to take control of Greenland, even as he reiterated his belief that Denmark should ultimately transfer ownership of the island to the United States. He argued that only the U.S. had the capacity to adequately defend the strategically significant Arctic territory from foreign adversaries.

Financial markets initially reacted negatively to Trump’s pressure campaign. The S&P 500 posted its worst single-day performance in three months on Jan. 20. Markets rebounded after Trump announced on Truth Social that he had “formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” following his meeting with Rutte and said he would pause the tariffs he had threatened to impose on European nations.

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Denmark’s foreign minister welcomed the apparent de-escalation.

“The day is ending on a better note than it began,” Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in a statement.

“We welcome that President Trump has ruled out to take Greenland by force and paused the trade war with Europe. Now, let’s sit down and find out how we can address the American security concerns in the Arctic while respecting the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark.”

The United States already operates under a 1951 defense treaty with Denmark that allows Washington to establish or operate “defense areas” within Greenland, provided it receives Danish government approval. Under the agreement, the U.S. is permitted “to improve and generally to fit the area for military use” in coordination with Denmark.

It remains unclear how the new arrangement Trump described would differ from existing agreements. U.S. and Danish officials previously announced the creation of a high-level “working group” to address tensions and ongoing discussions related to Greenland.

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Chair Of Greenland’s Top Labor Union Speaks Out Against Trump: ‘We Are Not For Sale’

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Jess Bethelsen, the leader of Greenland’s largest labor union SIK, has come out in a new interview stating that Greenland “will not be annexed” and “is not for sale” in response to US president Donald Trump’s claims that the territory’s current status poses a national security threat.

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Scientists Warn Of Multiple Tipping Points In Climate Change

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A new scientific report has warned that the continued warming of the planet could trigger not only the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, the single largest contributor to global sea levels rising, but also multiple environmental “tipping points” that will be irreversible.

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Melting Ice Sheets Will Cause Global Sea Levels To Rise Over 15 Inches By 2100

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A new study performed by an international team of more than 60 ice, ocean, and atmospheric scientists has estimated that if humans keep emitting greenhouse gases unnecessarily at the rate that we’re going now, global sea levels will rise more than 15 inches by 2100.

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are emitted into the atmosphere every day, and they impact climate change by causing global temperatures to increase, leading to a myriad of other detrimental environmental events. One of these events includes the melting of ice sheets from some of the worlds largest bodies of ice.

As things continue to heat up, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are particularly worrying scientists, as they’re both located at opposite poles of the world and their simultaneous melting is causing the entire planet to struggle. Sophie Nowichi was the project leader of this study and recently released a statement about how the major uncertainty regarding ice sheets specifically has made it hard to measure just how severe things can get in terms of global warming.

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“One of the biggest uncertainties when it comes to how much sea levels will rise in the future is how ice sheets will contribute, and how much the ice sheets contribute is really dependent on what the climate will do.”

This study is a part of a larger initiative known as the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP6). This initiative is led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The team working for ISMIP6 has been measuring how sea levels will rise between 2015 and 2100, specifically in relation to greenhouse gas emissions.

They found that higher emissions of these greenhouse gases extending throughout time will cause Greenland to contribute about 3.5 inches to the global rise in sea levels, while levels from Antarctica are a little harder to calculate based on the massive size. Antarctica has bodies of ice known as “shelves” which scientists are predicting will break down over time and cause an even more devastating increase to sea levels. 

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Right now it’s predicted that at the current rate of emissions Antarctica can contribute around 12 inches to sea levels in the future. Helene Seroussi is an ice scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California who worked on the study and recently released a statement emphasizing that this particular study is only providing predictions for ice loss between 2015 and 2100, and doesn’t take into account the already significant amount of loss that’s already occurred. 

“The strength of ISMIP6 was to bring together most of the ice sheet modeling groups around the world, and then connect with other communities of ocean and atmospheric modelers as well, to better understand what could happen to the ice sheets.”

According to Seroussi and other researchers working on the study it took over 6 years of workshops, conferences, and data exchange between scientists from around the world to compile these predictions and work together on ways in which humans can potentially correct their mistakes in regard to climate change. 

The specific report from the ISMIP6 will help the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with their special report regarding melting ice and global sea levels/climate change in general. This report is projected to compile data from a multitude of major studies and will be released in 2022.