Speaker 1: Trump's humiliating ritual and Davos, well, it just continued this
morning during his border peace signing ceremony. Now the ceremony,
it was attended by fewer than twenty countries. And here's
the crazy part. None of our traditional Western European allies
were even present. The Caroline Levitt, she claimed that Belgium
was part of the Peace Council, literally despite their deputy
Prime minister telling a very different story. Let me show
you what he said in it. He writes, Belgium has
not signed the charter of the Board of Peace. This
announcement is incorrect. We wish for a comment and coordinated
European response. As many European countries, we have reservations to
the proposal. Well, of course they do. How do you
turn around and walk away from your allies and invite
to the table technically your adversaries. Well, you know what,
it's not certainly not a great start to their new
board and his speech was very low energy, but he
did he did try to claim that there is peace
in the Middle East. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: We have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that
was possible.
Speaker 3: We've settled eight wars and I believe another one's coming
pretty soon, you know what.
Speaker 2: That is the one that I thought was going to
be an easy one, it's going to out to be
probably the most difficult.
Speaker 3: Last month, twenty nine thousand people died, mostly soldiers Ukraine Russia.
Think of that, twenty nine twenty seven thousand in the
month before, twenty six thousand in the month before then.
Speaker 2: Terrible. But we have meetings that we think we're making
a lot of progress.
Speaker 1: No, here's what makes no sense at all. I've actually
spoken to people. There is no peace in the Middle East.
In fact, there is fighting. There's still skirmishes going on. Sure,
sure the massive bombings and the shellings that has come
to a stop, but the additional attacks that has not.
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it out. Now back to the news, reporters also noticed
once again that Trump's hand had a pretty significant, deep
purple bruise. Let me show you what it says in
it with the folk there, Trump's left hand, not the
one that's usually disfigured, now has a large bruise and
is discolored. These pictures are from today in Davos and
are via Chip Samadavilla, Getty Imaging and Fabrice Kaffrini from AFP.
That's a pretty deep bruise, probably some sort of an
infusion maybe, who knows. But then again, when you start
taking that and coupling it with the confusion of Iceland
and Greenland during the speech, it's actually glaringly different and
truly upsetting how mainstream media chooses to talk about. For example,
Trump's mental acuity compared to how they reported on Joe
Biden is completely different. Now. AOC made this clear when
talking to reporters. Play the clip but real.
Speaker 4: Quick, how big of.
Speaker 1: A factor is Donald Trump's cognitive decline? Given what we're
seeing at Davos.
Speaker 5: I think that the president has been acting in increasingly
erratic ways. I think it is really damning when we
think about the degree to which mass media outlets reported.
Speaker 1: On Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: And yet, and you know that resulted in the Democratic
Party changing is cominy's et cetera. Yet we are seeing
behavior from Donald Trump that is increasingly erratic and alarming.
Speaker 1: And no, it's the exact same behavior in Trump one
point zero. And I say it all the time. People
again get mad at me despite the fact it's my truth,
it's my firsthand knowledge. It's not a cognitive decline. In
the mistakes of Iceland versus Greenland, what happened during his speech?
And I can tell you he was talking about how
the land is a giant block of ice, and for
whatever reason, he confuses himself and instead of calling it
Greenland despite the fact it's such a huge topic, he
took ice and then the land and he made it Iceland.
The part that we need to do is to acknowledge
was there a cognitive decline with Joe Biden? Is there
a cognitive decline in Trump. I don't know the answer
to either.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: I can turn around and say, it's how we respond
that ends up pushing media to do what they do.
But now back to Davos. Because Trump claimed yesterday that
he made a deal regarding Greenland, let me tell you
what he wrote in it. He writes, based upon a
very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary
General of NATO, Mark Rutt, we have formed the framework
of a future deal with respect to Greenland and in
fact the entire Arctic region. This solution, if consummated, will
be a great one for the United States of America
and all NATO nations. Based upon this understanding, I will
not be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go
into effect on February first. Additional discussions are being held
concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further
information will be made available as discussions progress. Vice President JD. Van,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Whitcoffe, and
various others as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations.
They will report directly to me. Thank you for your
attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, President of the
United States of America. Well, let me be crystal clear.
We've heard about frameworks before, we haven't seen them. What
happened to the framework with the Affordable Care Act? With healthcare?
What happened to the framework regarding immigration? Well, I don't know,
seeing ice, is that really the framework we're looking for? Nevertheless,
this morning, Trump spoke with Maria Bartiroma. She asked Trump
about his post play the clip.
Speaker 6: What are we talking about an acquisition of Greenland? Are
you going to pay for it?
Speaker 3: I mean, we're talking about it. It's really being negotiated
now the details of it, but essentially it's total access.
Speaker 2: There's no end, there's no time limit.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me be crystal clear. Sounds very similar to
what we already have now. She also asked if this
means that we will fully acquire Greenland play that clip.
Speaker 6: You have talked about this framework, the beginning of a
framework that you've spoken with the NATO secretary back. Can
you tell us anything about that? Does this ultimately mean
that the US will ultimately acquire Greenland?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't know if I can say that, but
it could be. I mean as possible. Anything's possible. But
in the meantime, we're getting everything we wanted.
Speaker 3: Total security, total access to everything, have as many bases,
have all the equipment that we want, and very importantly,
you know, we're building the Golden Dome.
Speaker 2: We call it. It's called the Iron Dome. Somehow the
Golden domes sounded a little bit better.
Speaker 3: But we have a technology the second ten and you
saw what we did with Israel, then that's our ingenius
that did that, and it's amazing. It's just you know,
it's a fool proof and we're going to be building
it and it works much better when we have access
to Queenland, just covers more territory, covers it more accurately,
missiles will be more accurate by having it's very important
strategically as a piece.
Speaker 2: And we will have all everything we want. We're getting
everything we want at no cost.
Speaker 1: So what's really interesting here is that they have always
maintained that the United States can have as much of
the land or I should say ice as they want
to build military outposts for their security, for hemispheric security.
It's almost like what they refer to as Munchhausen by proxy, right,
burn the house down and then be the guy who
shows up with the fire extinguisher. This makes absolutely no
sense in terms of why the fighting. Why not just
turn around and say, this is what we're going to do.
Why the imposition of tariffs, Why have to affect the
entire world, our allies across the board. Why do we
have to keep them out of it? None of this
strategically makes sense, though I do have to acknowledge that
from a military standpoint, if they are referring to this
for the protection of America as it relates to this
Golden Dome, this new technology, yeah, it would make sense
because it's right there within which to intercept anything that
comes out of China or Russia. So sure, but why
not have just said it that way? Why all of
the hooplow, Why all of the mets and the chaos
and the frustration. That's the part that angers me the
most now, Maria. She further tells Trump that the Danish
pension fund they're so pissed about all of this that
they're exiting the US treasuries, and she asked Trump if
he's worried about Danish retaliation.
Speaker 6: Play the clip, so what should we expect from the
European countries? I mean they've got this EU anti coercion
instrument that would be you know, services impacting our services.
Speaker 2: As you said.
Speaker 6: And then the Danish pension fund said that they're going
to exit US treasuries one hundred million dollars treasuries at
the end of December. European countries hold trillions of stocks
and bonds from the US. Do you worry that they
would start selling those in retaliation?
Speaker 2: If they do?
Speaker 3: They do, but you know, if that would happen, there
would be a big retaliation on our part, and we
have all the cards and.
Speaker 1: Wait, so they buy bonds and if they want to
sell it, because let's say they don't feel comfortable anymore
in the relationship. Now there's retaliation somehow. Once again it
sounds like a veil threat. But you never know. That's
the whole problem. Now, Trump began. He continued to claim
that we actually don't even need NATO seventy five years
in existence now today twenty twenty six, we no longer
need this partnership.
Speaker 3: Play the clip, oh, I think, But I've always said,
will they be there if we haven't needed them?
Speaker 2: And that's really the ultimate test, And I'm not sure
of that.
Speaker 3: I know that we would have been there, or we
would be there, but will they be there? And let's
hope that that never happens. We've never needed them, We
have never really asked anything of them. You know, they'll
say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that,
and they did.
Speaker 2: They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.
Speaker 3: But we we've been very good to Europe and to
many other countries. And you know now under my administration
that began because we had a very successful first term.
Speaker 2: That began then. But it has to be a two
way street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be very clear about something they fought
on the front lines. It's a terrible thing to say
to diminish another soldier's commitment to their war effort. Now, Maria,
she also spoke with Howard Lutnik, and she made a
very important point that people are comparing Trump's threats against
Greenland to exactly how Putin made the threats and ultimately
invaded Ukraine. Play the clip go both ways.
Speaker 6: What would you say if one of our allies said, look,
we're going to go in and take over another country
even though the country said we're not interested. I mean,
we talk all day and every day about evil action
from Putin going into Ukraine. I mean, people are looking
at this and saying, how is it possible that the
US can acquire another country, even though they're pushing back.
Speaker 7: I don't remember Greenland being another country. We're not taking
over Denmark. It's just Greenland is in our hemisphere. It's
far far away from Denmark as we know, and fifty
seven thousand people right who are close to America, and
it's important for us to make sure we protect the
western hemisphere. The strength of America in the Western hemisphere
is vital for the world. When America shines, the world shines.
We showed you that throughout twenty twenty five. I think
the President's going to come and talk about it. He's
going to meet with the European leaders. He's going to
talk to them, and my guess is they'll work it out,
but he wants them at the table.
Speaker 2: He wants them serious.
Speaker 1: You know again, why not just come clean and tell
what this is really about? And here's the status part.
After all of this hoopla, we still really don't even know.
And line with that questioning, President Zelenski said that literally
said the quiet part out loud, showing just how messed
up the United States priorities are.
Speaker 4: Play the clip, Let's look at the Western Hemisphere. President
trum Blatt an operation in Venezuela and Madura was arrested,
and there were different openis about it, but the fact remains.
Madura is on trial in New York. Sorry, but Putting
is not on trial. And this is the first year
of the biggest war in Europe since World War Two,
and the man who started it is not only free,
he is still fighting for his frozen money in Europe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's also being invited to the Board of Peace.
I understand, and I stand with Zelenski again. There are
so many things that come at us every single day,
and everybody has a difference of opinion, and what we
try to do is we try to take the most
important things that are out there and we try to
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