President Donald Trump said Tuesday he considered changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of Trump’ – though he immediately told reporters he was joking. Or was he? Trump was the surprise guest at Tuesday’s press briefing, taking the podium amid a tussle with European leaders over the future of Greenland. What was billed as a press conference mostly became a venue for the president to read from a list of accomplishments – 365, according to a White Housepress release – as he marked one year into his second term.

On that list was Trump’s decision to start referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the ‘Gulf of America,’ an executive order he signed on day one. ‘I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought that I would be killed if I did that,’ the president said. ‘I decided not to do that.’ He then assured reporters that he was just being funny. ‘I’m joking, you know, when I say that I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump,’ he said.

But then the president floated the idea, ‘maybe we could do that.’ ‘It’s not too late,’ he added. The ‘Gulf of Trump’ quip was among the more lighthearted moments as the briefing room appearance dragged on for more than an hour. The president came to the podium armed with a stack of photos of alleged criminal illegal immigrants found by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota – defending ICE agents at length.

He did say that he felt bad about the death of Minnesota mother Renee Good – especially when he found out that she was the daughter of Trump supporters. Reporters were given a pack of 365 ‘wins’ for the year Trump has been back in office. The president brought an even thicker stack of paper – and after a brief battle with a paperclip – started reading from it. ‘Oh, I’m glad my finger wasn’t in that sucker,’ the president remarked. ‘That could have done some damage, but you know what? I wouldn’t have shown the pain.’

‘I would have acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off,’ he joked. Trump weaved for an hour and 20 minutes before finally taking questions from the press. He expressed frustration with Norway for not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize. He lashed out at his political enemies, including ‘son of [expletive] ‘ former special counsel, Jack Smith, Representative Ilhan Omar and said if California Governor Gavin Newsom became president, he would turn the United States into Venezuela.

He labeled former CNN host Don Lemon, who was at the scene of the Minneapolis church protest, a ‘loser’ and a ‘lightweight.’ He told reporters ‘you’ll find out’ when asked how far he would go to acquire Greenland. At the same time, he hinted there could be a diplomatic solution. “I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy,’ he said. His Greenland demands became even more outrageous overnight as he shared an AI image of himself, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio planting an American flag on the Danish territory. Trump also shared a message written to him by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Macron had invited Trump to Paris for an emergency G7 meeting to discuss the Greenland matter. Trump told reporters that he wasn’t going to take Macron up on his offer – explaining that he doesn’t need to negotiate with the French president because he won’t be in office for much longer. Macron is expected to leave office in May 2027. ‘There’s no longevity there,’ Trump said. ‘I have meetings with the people that are directly involved.’ Trump is headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later Tuesday night, where the Greenland issue will be front and center. ‘I’m going to this beautiful place called Switzerland,’ Trump said. ‘Where I’m sure I’m very happily awaited for,’ he said sarcastically.