The Daily Populous

Friday January 16th, 2026 night edition

image for Trump: ‘We shouldn’t even have an election’

President Donald Trump takes part in a signing ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House Jan. 14, 2026.

“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump said.

He then boasted that he had accomplished so much that, “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”.

“How we have to even run against these people — I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election,” Trump said.

Trump also used the event to muse about presidential term limits, referencing the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms.

The timing of federal elections is set by Congress, and the administration of those elections is handled by state and local election officials.

There is no legal mechanism for a president to declare elections unnecessary, suspend them indefinitely or bypass them altogether. »

American dad wakes up speaking fluent Spanish after every surgery

Authored by dexerto.com

33-year-old Stephen Chase has revealed that, after every surgery, he wakes up speaking fluent Spanish despite only knowing a “low level” of the language.

In the case of Stephen Case, a father from Utah, he wakes up from surgeries speaking Spanish for a little bit.

That’s right, every time Chase goes under the knife for a surgery, he wakes up speaking Spanish. »

European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island

Authored by bbc.co.uk

Trump, meanwhile, doubled down on his bid to bring Greenland under US control, telling reporters in the Oval Office, "we need Greenland for national security".

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland was not planning to join the European military deployment to Greenland, but warned that any US military intervention there "would be a political disaster".

Finland is sending two military liaison officers for what it said was a fact-finding mission during what was currently a planning stage of the operation. »

The Xbox Developer Direct will feature a secret fourth game

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The upcoming Xbox Developer Direct will feature a currently unannounced fourth game.

VGC can corroborate this and understands that the fourth game is a smaller-scale original game from one of Xbox Game Studios’ first-party developers.

The Xbox Developer Direct will also include “the first in-depth look” at Beast of Reincarnation, the new game from Game Freak. »