Back to episode — Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25
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California experience before the fire — this is before the fire — if he tells you that looking at California made him think that the Democrats were not the ones to back, just think about the fact that he could see it before the fire and he was affected by it. I don't think it changed his vote, but now it might. And he said about California, you see what's going on in California: higher taxes, hom…
← Previous segment →fact check on that. Are they the Greenlandic people? I don't know.
Anyway, so as you know the Greenland prime minister spoke out. Do you get the joke? The Greenland prime minister, he spoke out. Do you know why that's funny? Do you know what his first name is? Múte. That's his actual name. His first name is Mute. Yeah, he spoke out. There's your simulation. The mute is speaking out.
So he didn't say that he wants to be an American state or anything like that. He said that the Greenlandic people should decide what their fate is. But he didn't seem terribly keen on staying owned by Denmark and you can understand that. But here's the bigger surprise. Today apparently the Danish officials think that some kind of middle ground can be reached. This is according to the Daily Wire, Tim Pearce. And middle ground would be something short of a sale but some kind of stronger cooperation, something like that. We don't know what that would look like.
Now what do you think of Trump's first offer? If you want to see the art of the deal in real time, let me try to set this up for you. Suppose you were a regular politician. Suppose you were Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter and you had this idea that we should own or have control of, functional control of Greenland. How would you go about it? Well you probably have some secret meetings, right? And then the Greenland people would never hear about it and then they would never weigh in to tell you that they agreed with it. So that would be the first mistake of everybody who's not Trump.
Trump tweets about it. If Trump puts it in the public, the entire nation of Greenland is talking about it. I'll bet you 100% of all the Greenlandic people have had lots of conversations about this. Everyone. And it's because Trump said it and Trump said it publicly. And not only did he say it publicly but he said here, here's the beauty. He basically said if you don't sell it to us or give it to us, we're going to take it.
What do you think the Greenlandic people think when the entire U.S. military and the president of the United States named Trump says you know we could just take it? Do you think they believed it? Yes. Well at least they believed there was a high possibility. Do y
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ou think he meant it as in he would send in the actual military and like start arresting any Greenland resistors? Don't know. That's the beauty of it. I follow Trump as closely as anybody. I don't know. Did he mean it? That's his magic. His magic is he might mean it. He might. And that's all you need. So think about how much action he got simply by putting it out there that if you don't work with…
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