IHIP News: Trump IMMEDIATELY LOSES European Trade War!! He's DESPERATELY Trying To BACKPEDAL!!

What this episode is about

Trump’s actions at Davos are criticized as revealing dangerous nationalism and suggest behind-the-scenes influence from aides shaping foreign policy, raising concerns about U.S. leadership and the motives of political operatives.

Key takeaways

• Trump’s Davos theatrics expose a broader pattern: spectacle distracts from real policy leverage and long-term geopolitics.
• Behind-the-scenes power pairs with public chaos: the ‘fold’ becomes diplomacy, while rivals recalibrate to exploit it.
• Greenland gambit shows core flaw: redefining ownership as branding, not strategy, destabilizing allies and markets alike.
• Europe’s cooling banks on Trump’s volatility, weaponizing geopolitical risk to reweight sovereignty away from U.S. clout.
• Epstein, NATO, and 2024 optics converge: crisis fatigue heightens openness to foreign influence campaigns and countermeasures.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Midas Touch (Guest) · 3 min speaking
• Ron Philipsky · 2 min speaking
• Kylie (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Lars Christensen (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Donald Trump
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Donald Trump
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Donald Trump, Lars Christensen

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Trump IMMEDIATELY LOSES European Trade War!! He's DESPERATELY Trying To BACKPEDAL!!"

• Trump said that wasn't good enough because he needs the US to quote own it.

  about Donald Trump · at 4:38

• And I will say to Lars, I appreciate and I accept the criticism because I think criticism is a helpful tool in all forms of whether it be business, government culture religion whatever.

  about Lars Christensen · at 14:31

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure / target of critique · 6 mentions · first at 0:09
  Central subject of the episode’s commentary: his Davos behavior, Greenland/NATO rhetoric, and perceived authoritarian impulses are used to argue the U.S. is damaging its global standing.
• Lars Christensen — Person · Referenced commentator providing external critique of the U.S. · 1 mention · first at 13:25
  Quoted for a ‘damning indictment’ arguing the issue is broader than Trump—implying U.S. institutions and public tolerance enable the behavior; the host responds by acknowledging criticism while emphasizing resistance and independent media.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 The United States of America and its toddler dementia egodriven fragile narcissistic president are an international joke. There's no other way to put it. Donald Trump has confirmed for everybody in the world that the worst impulses of Americans, entitled megalomaniacs, think they're better than everybody else, unbridled ethnosentrism. He's confirmed and he represents the worst attributes of our culture at large. And in Davos, the way he behaved is appalling. And you have to remember, it's not just him. He has speech writers. Like people actually wrote those speeches. He is surrounded by people who probably on the one hand, you have some very diabolical people surrounding him that say, "Yeah, let's make him make an ass of himself."

0:52 Because behind the scenes at Davos, Witco and Kushner and others were making the real deals that they want to make and then they put their little Trojan horse out as the distraction, as the shiny object. Here he is, Trump, because he only, you know, he's a four or five trick pony. Here he is. He did this during the campaign and he's still doing it now in the global stage in Europe talking about how the world needs dictators. Play the clip.

1:23 Good speech. We got great reviews. I can't believe it. We got good reviews in that speech. Usually they say he's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator, but they didn't say that in this case. And and no, it's common sense. It's all based on common sense. You know, it's not conservative or liberal or anything else. It's mostly I'd say 95% common sense. And that's what we have.

1:47 95% common sense that he needs a dictator. and the other 5% is so batshit crazy. It outperforms the 95%. This is utter insanity. But I believe that inside the minations of this tyrannical government of the United States where they are having our country commit suicide as being a superpower. There are very dangerous actors and um ignorant actors behind the scenes like Woodco who are there in Davos wheeling and dealing using our reputation, our economy, and 250 years worth of relationships, allies, and all of the things we've built to benefit and enrich themselves.

2:31 So, there's two things going on. We always have to remember Trump and the people surrounding him, although they are morons, they are politically savvy as it pertains to wagging the dog. And we have so many things on the front lines in the uh United States. The Epstein files worse than Watergate, horrible. They're breaking the law every day, not releasing them. A a tanking economy. And so they just trot out this crazy person to give crazy sound bites. and he always delivers. Now, you may remember a few days ago, he sends this batshit, crazy letter about Greenland.

3:09 It was so embarrassing. Everybody was saying 25th Amendment. And he goes over to Davos to act like a tough guy. The Danes pull their money. They start dumping American investments, stock market tanks. What does he do? He folds like a cheap suit. He was never going to send military to Greenland. It was all a ruse. This is the art of the fold. put this up.

3:31 It's a deal that everybody's very happy with. Does it still include you? Does it still include Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you've said you wanted?

3:40 Uh, it's a long-term deal. It's the ultimate long-term deal and I think it it puts everybody in a really good position, especially as it pertains to security and minerals and everything else. It's such a long-term deal that it's the same deal that we've had for decades. This man is a laughingstock of epic proportions. And expanding on that analysis, we have Midas Touch and Ron Philipsky. Kylie popped this up. Midas Touch reports Europe took on Trump and won. Total surrender by Trump after he humiliated himself and the nation on the world stage. Ron Philipowski expands on that further. This is not a new deal.

4:27 This is Trump surrendering for now. They have always said that the United States and NATO is free to do what it wants in Greenland from a military perspective. Trump said that wasn't good enough because he needs the US to quote own it. So, this is simply Trump backing down. When he sits there, when he sits there and says, "We have concepts of a plan." It is the exact same plan we've always had. This is completely foreign policy chaos by people that are incredibly over their skis. Much like Christy Gnome and um Cash Patel want to put on FBI jackets or Homeland Security jackets. A lot of the people surrounding Trump are like, "Yeah, let's take Greenland." But remember, I told you at the top of this episode, what's happening behind the scenes at Davos? We put out our idiot to uh consolidate all of the headlines, but what's happening behind the scenes?

5:22 Witovoff Putin Kushner. This whole thing with NATO is what Russia wants. The Russians on Russian state TV have been celebrating left and right. And they've even said the United States president is far more in line ideologically and politically with the Russian president. And so hopefully Europe continues to get a little bit more serious about taking him on and understands that you cannot play patty cake with this man. You have to dump your treasuries. You cannot park your money in the United States of America. You have to play ball with this guy because the minute the stock market drops, the country club Republicans will call him up to say, "Buddy, look, we'll impeach you." They're not going to tolerate their money being around like this. So Europe really holds all the cards. Trump likes to tell um Zalinski and all of these people, you don't have the cards. Trump doesn't have the cards because the only thing keeping

6:20 him in power right now is these country club Republicans like their 401ks and he hasn't screwed that up just yet. All right, within MAGA, we're starting to see just pancakes of support. Pop this up. The Daily Beast is reporting the following. Half of Trump voters and conservatives now admit they think the country has gone off the rails. A scathing poll reveals huge majority think America is spiraling out of control under Trump. Obviously, it's taken quite some time to get here, but this collapse of support is an integral thing that we need as we head into the midterms. And as he starts seeing these poll numbers, remember his fragile ego and his strong desire, as we learned from Ruth Ben Guillot, to um prevent narcissistic injury. These polls are deep wounds and injure him so much that when he's injured like this, he does more gambling that she spoke about the autocratic gamble. So, we're going

7:26 to see be as this polling comes out and the front page of Drudge, which every MAGA person, every Republican checks, hell, I check it every day. Here's the front page of Drudge. Trump approval 35%. Which obviously obviously I think is too high. But everybody is seeing this and this is when they become more dangerous, these autocrats, because this is such an injury to him. This is such an injury to his ego not being liked. Poll numbers, we know he incessant incessantly talks about poll numbers. He has uh Congress, as we all know, as I've said multiple times, Moses Mike Grinder Johnson has been neutered by a man that wears a full face of makeup and little Moses's balls are in the top desk, top drawer desk of the uh Resolute Desk, and Donald Trump walks him the way Vladimir Putin walks Trump. And here is Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, the most worthless speaker of the house I've ever seen. I mean, I

8:35 would almost say like one of the most worthless human beings. Absolutely brings nothing to the table. And it's really important that we on the pro-democracy side of it, the progressive side of it, the left side of it, start talking about the these MAGA men that preach masculinity, yet at the same time they're so submissive. Like I have never seen such a group of submissive Republicans in my life. And they're all men. At least the women a few times have voted differently. Uh Marcowski, Susan Collins, not huge fans of either, but at least they've shown some independence.

9:11 These MAGA men are so beta and so submissive, yet they preach to women that were hysterical and that uh Joe Biden sucked out of a straw and that doesn't seem very masculine. Here's little Moses Mike Grinder walking through the halls of Congress and you're just going to die at what he's talking about. Play the clip. this time. I'm so sorry to not get involved in he that text me. Is it appropriate for him to do that?

9:43 I I I think that's a that mis portrays uh what he was doing there. So, what was he trying to do?

9:48 I I you have to ask him criticizing them for not giving the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, look, there's a lot of lot of people that have criticized them for making a political decision and not awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to probably the most deserving individual in the history of the prize.

10:04 But normally the country doesn't do it to 10 wars and conflicts have been resolved by President Trump and he got snuffed.

10:10 But the prime minister is not going to do it now. No, but it is his country and and he has a lot of influence.

10:17 It's stunning. It the the level of submissive nature of him is so jarring to watch that number one he continues to echo the lies that Trump solved eight wars. Number two, all of this business that he's so deserving of a peace prize while at the same time he is having his Gestapo that uses Nazi uh propaganda outwardly on our uh government's social media campaigns, shoot people in the face, kidnap toddlers, uh harass people all over Minnesota, which does not have an immigration problem at all. The data shows uh Minnesota's immigration population is 130,000 unlike Texas and Florida where they're up in the millions. And then he sits there and goes along with that somehow Norway, the country has culpability in the fact that Donald Trump didn't win the Oscar. I mean, this would be the equivalent of a British actor ranting and raving because the United States government didn't uh give this British

11:27 actor or actress an Oscar award. the lack of intellectual um understanding of simple things from Trump I understand and how that trickles down to these obsequious submissive men is really unbelievable on uh the MAGA side of Twitter yesterday. They're all like the art of the deal. Trump really crushed it in Denmark. They're all so submissive. And I want to say this crystal clear because we need to start preaching this from the rooftops. MAGA men are submissive beta Period. They never disagree with a word that this president says. They are obsequious from the top of their head to the bottom of their toes. They are happiest in homosocial relationships and create their world as such. the worship of a man whom they deem to be the idealized version of masculinity. And this man wears a full face of makeup every single day. And from the minute he gets up to the minute he goes to bed, he is the most powerful one of now one of

12:42 the richest men in the world. And he talks about how oppressed he is. And he gossips about people that he thinks have done them wrong. This there's nothing about this that is strength. And Trump is going to continue to do this. But these Republican men, both in politics, like in Congress or governorships and on Twitter, don't let all of their bravado fool you for a second. These are submissive titty babies. And lastly, I want to bring you to a tweet that I ran across. And at first, it kind of triggered something in me like, okay, is there a lot of truth to this? And I think there is, but I think there's something for us to have like a family conversation about. So, Kylie popped this up. Lars Christensen tweets. The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US. When the outside world observes Trump's insane behavior and his threats against allies and we at the same time observe that there is no real action

13:42 from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behavior. The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behavior and where there are no norms and rules. That means that we all have to conclude that the US not only Trump has betrayed the international order that the US with its western partners were the main architects of after the second world war. And this goes on and on. It's a very very damning indictment on United States culture. And to be honest, when I first read it, I thought, "Oh god, there's a lot of truth to that."

14:28 But also, we have to have hope in this. And I will say to Lars, I appreciate and I accept the criticism because I think criticism is uh a helpful tool in all forms of whether it be business, government culture religion whatever. I invite constructive criticism because I'm not a sickopant, submissive like these people in the MAGA movement. But I will say this, there is independent media that is flourishing in the United States of America right now. And we did have two very successful no kings rallies. And the people of Minnesota, of Minneapolis, are bravely taking to the streets, taking on a literal Gustapo, who are brazenly throwing chemicals in their face. And I agree with you that the president is fooar. I agree with you that the Congress both Republican and a lot of Democrats are incredibly disappointing. I believe agree with you that the Supreme Court is a far rightwing think tank that is radicalized

15:35 by Fox News just like their base is. There's barely any difference between a Clarence Thomas and some rural man that sits and screams at his TV with Jesse Waters all night. And that's devastating. It's devastating that our culture has cultivated this. But I will say this, we are a really big country. Unlike Europe where you're concentrated in Germany, if you wanted to do a huge protest, everybody could go to Berlin, could go to Munich. Um, in Paris, I mean, in France, everybody could go to Paris and drive there pretty easily.

16:11 The resistance is everywhere. But I agree with you, Lars. It's not being shown that much in mainstream media. And there are millions of us, I would argue even a couple hundred million of us that are every bit as appalled as you are and every bit as interested in a rigorous autopsy as to the cancers that are in this country. And we see it. We see what you see. We see the overt entitlement, the uh grandiose hypocritical religiosity on display. uh we see the uh arrogant ethnosentrism. Um and yet seeing all of that and still being here, there are a lot of us here that are fighting for this country and it looks disjointed because our country is disjointed. It's 50 states expanded.

17:02 I mean you could drive for 5 days and not get to the other coast and we are organizing and especially people in independent media. We are hyperritical of the whole thing, whether it's a Republican us over or a Democrat playing corporate patty cake with fascists. And so, as you read this stuff and this criticism online to my fellow Americans, a lot of that criticism is worthy. And we have to tuck our tail between our legs and stand up and accept it and take it. But also, don't let that defeat us because this fight is ours.

17:38 And many generations prior to us have had this same fight, similar fights for civil rights. Um, hell, we even had a civil war. And we can do this. We can stand up against these submissive uh unlikable, hysterical men who literally have a hive mind. There's there's no independent thinking what whatsoever. They all plagiarize each other's thoughts, each other's sentences, each other's uh stances. There's no individuality in any of it. And so, they're all there and they're all going to continue to do that all day, every day. And I am not going to act surprised. I'm not going to say this is unbelievable. I am not going to say I can't believe it because I believe every bit of it. It is believable. It is understandable. Especially when you open your eyes and you look back to what the Republican party incubated with an assist from corporate Democrats to build us to this moment. And I know that it is

18:43 devastating, but we can do this. And the criticism is justified and I take it as a big girl. But I am not going to give up. And I think that we are forming communities and they want us to say we hate America because I say, "Oh, these, you know, godless liberals can't stand America." The people who hate America are the people who are trying to decimate the federal government. The people who hate America are the little Nazis that go out and arrest little kids and like it. The people who hate America are the people who freebase Fox News all morning and all night, who have no culture in their lives and think they are better than everybody else in the world. And you know what? Deep down, they know they're not. They know they're pieces of and they're fine with it. But I'm not okay with that. And there are millions and millions of Americans who are also not okay. So, as we see these critiques,

19:41 do not descend into nihilism. Now is the time to kick it up, go into overdrive and fight for this country and get us to the midterms. And most importantly, we don't need to put pressure on MAGA. That's their problem. We need to put pressure on our Democratic politicians that are playing patty cake with these fascists. And we need to do it all day, every day. There's a vote coming up on January 30th. I'm going to do an episode about how Hakee is already somewhat bending the knee to them. And we need to put pressure on the people in power in our party to put up a real opposition once and for all. All right, please like, subscribe, leave me a comment, and we'll be back later with more news.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "IHIP News: Trump IMMEDIATELY LOSES European Trade War!! He's DESPERATELY Trying To BACKPEDAL!!"?

Midas Touch (Guest), Ron Philipsky, Kylie (Guest), Lars Christensen (Guest).

What is "IHIP News: Trump IMMEDIATELY LOSES European Trade War!! He's DESPERATELY Trying To BACKPEDAL!!" about?

Trump’s actions at Davos are criticized as revealing dangerous nationalism and suggest behind-the-scenes influence from aides shaping foreign policy, raising concerns about U.S. leadership and the motives of political operatives.

What is mentioned in this I've Had It episode?

2 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Lars Christensen. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "IHIP News: Trump IMMEDIATELY LOSES European Trade War!! He's DESPERATELY Trying To BACKPEDAL!!"?

The episode runs 21 min; the transcript is about 3,232 words in 29 timestamped sections.

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