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t point of view is less censorship and better processes for the censorship. So he described what he's going to do, which is remarkable. Now, as I'm talking about this, I know exactly what you're going to be thinking. You're going to say to me, Scott, but what about all the terrible, terrible things he did in the past with Facebook, banning people and censoring and all that? Those are true things…

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ork. But once it's in the Wall Street Journal, that's the thing that every business has to pay attention to. You can't ignore the Wall Street Journal if you're in a business. So it kind of raised Starbuck's profile, and it raised it in the context of he's winning like crazy. That's how you want to be elevated. Because if he's winning like crazy and it's creating a pattern in your brain that these big corporations that you figure are no dumber than you are are making this change, then the 16th, 17th, and 18th corporation that he talks to, he's going to say I got 15 in a row. Do you think that's an accident? No. Because if you say no, the Wall Street Journal has already lifted my visibility. People like me with big accounts are backing him hard. We're in trouble.

So he's very cleverly assembled a set of supporters on X that are enormous, just big accounts who are willing to say yeah, do more of that. So he isn't using his own power. He's doing such good work on behalf of people who have big accounts in the rest of the country. I would say that we want to back him. We want to see more of it. So he's built a perfect little machine to roll over the DEI excesses. Perfect. It's all good news.

Well, you want me to talk about Don Jr. He recently just landed in Greenland maybe an hour ago. And it does seem that this trip, he's with Charlie Kirk and a few other people, and it does seem that the intention of the trip is to set the groundwork for a deal to buy it. That's like a real thing. And this again, I hate to be gushing about smart people doing smart things, but can you even think of a smarter way for Trump to approach this than to have Don Jr. of all people visit personally and interact with the residents? Now, have you seen the early pictures? The residents of Greenland are pretty happy that Don Jr.'s there. Now, for one thing, they probably don't get a lot of celebrity excitement, so they got that going for them. But they don't seem like liberals. I don't know much about Greenland, but from the little bit I've seen, they seem like working-class people who want to be left alone. Does that sound like anything you've heard of before? Working-class people who just want the government to leave them alone.

I've got a feeling that there's a lot of smartness behind Trump's idea of buying Greenland. That he might know that the population is just ready to be seduced. And if Trump himself went there, you would agree that would be the wrong move, right? At this point he's not even sworn in, so it would definitely be the wrong move for Trump himself to go. But who would be more perfect to basically seduce the blue-collar people who probably like outdoorsy things? They're probably just like Don Jr. It's probably just a bunch of Greenland Don Jrs. And he lands in the middle of it. And I think here's what I think he's going to do. First of all, he takes this wild idea and he turns it concrete because there's a real person who really matters who's really there. Like it's not conceptual. So Trump has already turned it from conceptual to it's underway. It's amazing the level of his persuasive instincts. They're just crazy. I mean, I've never seen anything this good, honestly.

So I ask you again, is there anybody on the planet who would have been a better choice to send to Greenland today? Answer: no. Best one on the planet for what the intention is. Is it likely that Don Jr. will touch a lot of people, meaning that a lot of people will know he's there, see him, interact with him? Yes. There are only 56,000 people in the whole country of Greenland. My little town is twice that size. He's going to be able to reach, touch, have some impact on a healthy little chunk of that. And it's probably enough to make them all get serious about it. Now, I think that the only thing required for Greenland to say yes is for the Greenland people to feel good about Trump. How are you going to feel when he sends his son out to hang out with you? You're going to feel good about it. You're going to feel like, oh, this Don Jr. is like a regular guy. Don Jr. does the best job of being a rich guy acting like a regular guy. Now, I don't think he's acting exactly. I think that's his actual personality. He's perfect for this job. Just perfect. I love everything about this.

Anyway, let's talk about these other countries. Oh, and just one last thing about Greenland. I'm sure it would be good for Denmark to sell Greenland because they can't afford to protect it. And it will be important to protect it going forward because the ice melting above it and Russia and China are going to be having their ships around there. And it's got resources that people care about, rare earth materials, minerals, etc. So Denmark would not want to admit it because they'd rather stay in a negotiating mode and say no, no, there's no way we'd ever sell this. But they would be better off. I don't think they're getting a lot of international prestige for being colonizers of Greenland. Do the people in Denmark wake up and say I feel good about my country because of our control of Greenland? There's nothing in it for them except expense. Yeah, they're just paying for what's there. So it's good for Denmark. It's probably good for Greenland, almost certainly, and it could be good for the United States and definitely good for Canada to have us protecting on both sides so that would put Canada between Greenland and Alaska. If you can tell me that there would be a safer place on Earth than being between our two assets of the United States, it's a pretty good situation. So I don't know if the deal is going to happen, but it is in everyone's interest somewhat unambiguously, like clearly obviously in everybody's interest. I think he's going to get it done. I think this will be amazing.

Meanwhile, Trump also has talked about Canada becoming a state. And he keeps joking about it but not really, which is fascinating. Now, here's what I think. It sounded like just a Trumpian joke to make fun of Trudeau for being like a governor instead of a leader of the country. But given what's happening in Canada, I don't think the United States can take a chance that a caliphate forms on our northern border. And that's what's happening now. You might say, Scott, Scott, there are so few Muslims in Canada. That's you're crazy. To which I say that's how it happens. It happens with too few. That's the whole way it happens. You have too few, and then you say, well, a few more wouldn't matter. A few more, well, no problem so far, so why not have a few more? And so far no problem. Stop being racist. Let's get a few more. At some point when you reach around 10% of the population, the radicals within that group will come to control the moderates because radicals are willing to die for what they want. The moderates are not. They're just trying to get along. So the most extreme people in any group tend to rise to control of it, right? It's just natural. It has nothing to do with Islam. It's just the natural way anything works. The people who are willing to die for it literally are going to be in charge or die trying.

So I don't think we can take a chance that Canada is heading really hard toward getting that 10% population, which could easily turn into the seeds of a caliphate. And we could have an Islamic country on our northern border. That's no good because of the compatibility with the systems. So the other thing is that if you put into the mix that you might want to buy Canada or have them merge with us, I guess not buy it, it makes the Greenland thing seem more normal. Somebody was pointing out that Trump is ruining the Overton window or something. So he's got so many things going on that you don't know where to stop to criticize them. You're just whipped from one topic to another. So I love the fact that you simultaneously talking about Panama Canal, Canada, and Greenland. That's just so Trumpy and perfect to be talking about all of them at the same time. It's very strategically smart because even if he just wants one of them to happen or two of them, it's good to throw Canada in the mix.

So as you know, Trudeau is stepping down. I saw it. Eventually he announced it. And I saw Scott Jennings, the Republican guy that they have on CNN, who does a great job. And he said that the removal or the leaving or the quitting of Trudeau, you could draw a direct line from the Canadian truckers situation. Do you think that's true? Do you think that the evil that he put on the Canadian truckers for protesting, canceling their banking and just, my god, do you think that that was sort of the thing that pushed Canada over the line and even eventually led to Trudeau having to step down? Do you think there is a straight line? I think there is. Obviously it took more than that, but yeah, I think the truckers kind of got it done. So congratulations, Canadian truckers. BJ, take a bow. I know he's listening.

All right, so should we talk about Elon Musk angering Canada or angering Britain or angering Germany or angering France? Where would you like me to start? So after Elon Musk becomes the determinant factor, maybe for why Trump gets elected, he seems to change his focus or for at least some of his time on other countries. And so let's just run through the list of who is made mad recently.

So up in Canada, there's a report, we don't know if it's true. Some Musk asked for a fact check on it. But allegedly some Islamists in Canada are holding a conference, which again is not confirmed, it's just being reported, on how to defeat all non-Muslim nations and create a global caliphate. Now, they're pretty far away from having enough power to do that sort of thing, but the way it starts is with a first meeting to talk about it. So Elon's looking at that with one eyebrow up like the rest of us should be. And of course he's accused of racism. So Canada has that problem that we've kind of solved in the United States, and I'll call it the Andrew Breitbart solution. It goes like this. You wanting to close the border, you're a racist, you're racist, you're racist. And then as Andrew Breitbart teaches, you say so. Well, but you're racist, you're racist, you're racist. So yeah. And I don't think that's literally what's happening, but I don't think that anybody wants to be a racist, and they're not. They're not racist. They're just not interested in your opinion. That's the win. The win is to not be interested. So yeah, yep, yep, that's true. So but Canada still thinks that if they complain about somebody being a racist, that the person they complain about will have to change their ways and apologize and get in line. To which Elon Musk does not say, but may indeed be thinking, so that's what Canada needs. Just two letters. So yeah, yeah, that this would be terribly bad for one group. Everything is so. You'll get there.

The other fake news that I sent around yesterday accidentally was a video of Trudeau resigning in a bar watching it. And as it happened, the bar erupted in wild cheers. That was actually a fake video. The bar was real, but they were reacting to a sporting event. But somebody put Trudeau on the TV screen, and it made it look like they were celebrating his stepping down. But that was fake news.

All right, so you think things are bad in the UK? If I had to describe to you how bad things are going in the UK, what would be the fewest words that I could use to describe how bad it is over there? Well, I'll see if I can do it. The fewest words to describe how bad things are in

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the UK. All right, how I'm going to go with this: Andrew Tate's running for prime minister. Anything else you need to know? But it gets better. Now, first of all, I do know that you don't run for prime minister. So before you jump in and say, Scott, you don't understand the system. They, you know, the prime minister is selected by the other elected people to be their leader, blah blah blah. I don…

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