Trump's Crazy Greenland Threats Already BACKFIRED!!

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• Also you a Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch calling the tariffs a terrible idea.

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• Kemi Badenoch — Person · Referenced UK opposition leader condemning tariffs · 1 mention · first at 7:06
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  Used as an example that even typically Trump-aligned/right-wing leaders in Europe criticized the tariff threats.
  Of course, with this, you had a long list of European leaders verbally condemning Trump's threats, including those from Denmark, France, Germany and the UK.

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0:00 is a saddened, deranged old man also. Hi. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news. I'll be having a good Monday. Hope you're having a good MLK Junior Day. But he is a sad and deranged old man. That is the general consensus you're seeing more and more of after what Trump just did. Because Norway's prime minister texted Trump about Greenland yesterday and Trump then reportedly messaged him back, quote, dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars.

0:25 Plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. with Trump then continuing. Denmark cannot protect the land from Russia or China. And why do they have a right of ownership anyway? there are no written documents. It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago. But we had boats landing there also. have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding. And now NATO should do something for the United States.

0:51 world is not secure unless we have complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you. So just a few things. We've got a breakdown from the Mad Kings toilet time texts. one the Norwegian PM has said, quote, I have several times greatly explain to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel committee and not the Norwegian government that awards the prize. two Trump actually got the participation trophy version of the Nobel Peace Prize recently. Because Maria Corina machado actually tried to give her her Nobel Peace Prize to him when she visited the white House last week. Well, she offered it to me.

1:19 I thought it was very nice. She said, you know, you've had eight wars, and nobody deserves this prize more than in history than you do. And I thought it was a very nice gesture. To many. She just completely debased herself, seeming very, very pathetic. And in an attempt to try to get some power. then three Trump super petty threat text. It brings us to the big bombshell over the weekend, Trump's new trade war. in a post on truth Social that even caught his own party off guard. He threatened new tariffs against Europe until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.

1:48 with that, starting with a 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland. After February 1st, that then I think to 25% on June 1st, if he still hasn't gotten what he's demanding, this threaten all the flailing. It's coming. As thousands of Danes and Greenlanders braved near freezing temperatures, rain and icy streets to assert their right to self-governance in protest on Saturday. Right. What you saw there was the waving their national flag, wearing mock red hats, reading Make America Go Away, holding signs saying Greenland is not for sale and chanting stuff like no means no.

2:17 Greenland is already great, and Yankee go home. Greenland is our country. We cannot be, but we are people. we're kind of scared for the future. Because it feels like we don't have enough power to make our own decisions fully. of course. Unfortunately for Greenland, that is not where this ends, because Donald Trump and many of his friends, as many women, can attest to, they don't understand that no means no. Right. Instead you had Trump laying out his rationale for taking Greenland under the social saying we have subsidized Denmark and all the countries of the European Union and others for many years by not charging them tariffs or any other forms of remuneration.

2:48 now, after centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back. World peace is at stake. China and Russia want Greenland and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. currently have two dog sleds as protection. One added recently only the United States of America under President Donald J. Trump can play in this game, and very successfully at that. Nobody will touch the sacred piece of land, especially since the national security of the United States and the world at large is at stake. adding on top of everything else Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland have journeyed to Greenland for purposes unknown.

3:18 is a very dangerous situation for the safety, security and survival of our planet. these countries who are playing this very dangerous game have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable. Therefore, it is imperative that in order to protect global peace and security, strong measures be taken so that this potentially perilous situation, and quickly and without question, adding the United States has been trying to do this transaction for over 150 years. Many presidents have tried and for good reason.

3:40 But Denmark has always refused. then claiming now because of the Golden dome and modern day weapons systems, both offensive and defensive, the need to acquire is especially important. hundreds of billions of dollars are currently being spent on security programs having to do with the dome, including for the possible protection of Canada. And this very brilliant but highly complex system can only work at its maximum potential and efficiency because of angles, meats and bounds. If this land is included in it. United States of America is immediately open to negotiation with Denmark and or any of these countries that have put so much at risk, despite all that we have done for them, including maximum protection over so many decades. Okay.

4:14 So first thing. No, you are not crazy. If you're like, why does he keep changing the reasons we apparently need Greenland. Yeah, he's given so many different reasons. National security, the minerals, the Nobel Prize. I'm even thinking it's actually just a distraction from that still unreleased steam files. also, I think it's important we don't forget the when The New York Times asked him why he needs to own it rather than just having near limitless access to it, which is what the United States has now. said. And this was his reasoning, because that's what I feel is psychologically needed for success.

4:40 even if we just go through the things that he noted in his post, you've got experts saying that not much of it makes any sense. right. For starters, it's not true that hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on the so-called Golden Dome. instead it's being said that it would be $150 billion, but none of that money has actually been allocated yet. And in fact, contractors are still in the proposal stage. that then you also have Bloomberg estimating that the real cost would exceed $1 trillion and the key technologies haven't even been developed yet, actually speaking of that, those technologies chiefly consist of space based missile interceptors.

5:08 So experts say they have no idea why Trump thinks that he needs Greenland for that. fact, the Pentagon itself never mentioned Greenland when it mapped out potential locations for the domes land infrastructure. then also, let's say Greenland was somehow necessary. The US doesn't need to own Right. We America already have a military base there, and we have the right to expand our presence under a 1951 agreement with Denmark. also next up, the idea that Denmark has stubbornly refused the United States has territorial bids for 150 years.

5:34 That's false. fact, it's quite the contrary. Washington recognized Greenland as an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark in the 2004 amendment to the agreement that I just mentioned. and then as for the supposed threat from Russia and China, there's no indication either of them are planning to invade if that's something that they even ever considered. but again, it arguably still wouldn't matter because the US can put its troops there. you know, while Greenland, they don't have much of a military, they do have more than two dog sleds defending it. right. Nice.

5:57 For the European countries that journeyed to Greenland for purposes unknown, as Trump put it, we do know the purpose of was for the very thing that Trump claims Greenland does not have defense. were conducting military exercises alongside Danish forces. And it's not like it was some kind of surprise for Trump. like literally. The United States took part in a planning meeting on Friday in Greenland with NATO allies to discuss Arctic security. so, you know, with all that and then getting to the tariffs that Trump's imposing, they're not just going to further weaken the NATO alliance.

6:22 are also likely about to blow up the trade deal that Trump himself struck with Europe last year. Because under that deal, he agreed to lower tariffs on the EU to 15% in Britain to 10%. But presumably these new duties will pile on top of those rates. so to figure out a response, you had European leaders holding an emergency meeting yesterday, and reportedly they discussed retaliatory tariffs, those, they potentially include duties worth over $100 billion that were drawn up during last year's trade war. there were also, I'll say, some leaders, notably French President Emmanuel Macron, are considering a much more drastic, never before used tool officially called the anti coercion instrument.

6:53 But officially it's known as the trade Bazooka. that would reportedly target American service industries, most notably big tech companies. of course, with this, you had a long list of European leaders verbally condemning Trump's threats, including those from Denmark, France, Germany and the UK. Britain, in the U.K., you had Trump bringing people together, right? You had the British Labor Party's prime minister, Keir Starmer, denouncing the tariffs. Also you a Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch calling the tariffs a terrible idea.

7:16 And even the usually Trump aligned right wing populist leader Nigel Farage, saying he certainly doesn't agree with the tariffs. meanwhile, you also had Italy's far right prime minister, Giorgia meloni calling these a mistake, saying that she doesn't agree with them. and hey even at home you had some American conservatives drawing a red line here with, for example, GOP representative Don bacon saying, Greenland is our ally. And threatening an ally is foolish policy, especially when we'd be able to add bases there if we wanted.

7:39 sound too much like Putin, and it is wrong. then also had Senator Tom Tillis writing that tariffs are bad for America, bad for American businesses, and bad for American allies, but then also adding it's great for Putin, XI and other adversaries who want to see NATO divided. and all of this is just to add one more. You had Senator Lisa murkowski calling Trump's tariffs unnecessary, punitive, and a profound mistake that would only push our core European allies further away while doing nothing to advance U.S. national security.

8:04 also understand this reaction was not universal. You had people celebrating the tariffs like Russia and Ted Cruz. those two, they celebrated for different reasons. you were the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council saying make America great again equals make Denmark small again equals make Europe poor again. Has this idea finally sunk in dimwits? you would that is Ted Cruz was as well being Ted Cruz. I want to commend President Trump for being single mindedly focus on America first, on U.S. economic interests and U.S.

8:31 national security interests. I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland. ultimately, it might not matter what anyone thinks about it, because the Supreme Court's gearing up in the coming weeks to rule on whether Trump's unilateral tariffs or even legal, and they're, you know, we've seen them side with them on some things like his spending as well, then also going against him on other things, like deploying the National Guard in Chicago. So you have people saying it's a bit of a toss up.

8:54 though, here you also have many worried that if he can't get what he wants through economic coercion, he just might use the military force instead. yeah. Is something he's threatened either implicitly or explicitly and numerous times over the past several months. hey, he also, you know, he does have a hand me down Nobel Peace Prize participation trophy. And and he says that he's looking to make a new international organization called the Book of Peace. with that apparently meant to supervise the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, though Gaza is not mentioned in the draft charter, which is led many to speculate that this is really meant to displace the United Nations.

9:24 either way. Right. Trump he's setting it up so nations can get a three year membership for free, I guess with ads. Or they can pay $1 billion for permanent membership. and actually over the weekend, Trump reportedly sent invitations to a number of countries, including Argentina, Canada, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Turkey and Russia. With especially that last one being interesting for a group called the Board of Peace. then there's more we've got to dive into in just a minute. But first, you know, let me ask you never download a game just to try it.

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10:39 login seven days to claim Ezio keep logging in, grab gear simple. say hey, grab raid today. Use one of the promo codes, build your squad and come find me in game. then getting back into the news. Right. More news. You need to know. ISIS now reportedly tear gas and kids lawmakers are calling for it to be abolished. And all the while, you've got Trump and Tim Walz waging a Cold War for control of Minnesota. you got Trump's so-called Department of War now putting 1500 Active-duty troops on standby to be deployed in Minnesota, saying that those troops are from Alaska and specialize in cold weather operations, will execute the orders of the commander in chief if called upon.

11:10 then at the same time, you've got Governor Walz mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard, though they also haven't been deployed yet either. if Walz does pull that trigger, the guards, is it their mission will be to assist local law enforcement and public safety agencies. Right. Noting that there are, quote, focused on protecting life, preserving property and ensuring Minnesotans can safely exercise their First Amendment rights. with all this, because you've got Trump pushing this situation further and further, you're going to have militarized units in this public setting.

11:33 They've added that they're going to wear reflective vests to distinguish themselves from other agencies, aka Ice. right. Well, you had Trump on Friday walking back his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act. He didn't take it off the table. now. He's not letting up on walls either. That same day, reports came out that the Trump Justice Department is criminally investigating both him and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement. to that you had. Frye responded by saying that he won't be intimidated and was saying two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin.

11:57 Last week it was Jerome Powell before that. Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Bernie Good is the federal agent who shot her. Writing is all that's going down. You're seeing things like a Democratic representative from Michigan now introducing a bill to abolish Ice, AOC also renewing her call to abolish Ice, though I will say not every Democrat is on the same page here. and so you have Senator Ruben Gallego, for example, saying that abolishing Ice would be a mistake, but adding that it does need to be totally torn down and created in the image.

12:26 What people want. you've also got California Governor Gavin Newsom being accused of being soft and really not the man for the moment for what he said to Ben Shapiro on his podcast. AOC said this week that I should be abolished, you disagree? Oh, I disagree. When I think, a candidate for president by the name of Harris said that in the last campaign I came out, it was I remember being on Chris Hayes hours later saying, I think that's a mistake. So absolutely. and that was also after he was criticized by the right for calling on a state sponsored terrorism.

12:52 your press office tweeted out that it was state sponsored terrorism, which I mean. Governor, I just ask you about that. That sort of thing makes our politics worse. Yeah, and it does. And our Ice officers obviously are not terrorists. Yeah. A tragic situation is not state sponsored terrorism. Yeah, I think that's fair. Right. And so with Newsom, you have many independents and people on the left going like, who the hell is he actually? right? Is he the strong out there fighter that it appears that he is on social media, though that may just be his social media team.

13:20 or is he really just or maybe more so the, the Democrat that allows right wingers to walk all over him whenever he's on there or his podcast? right and then all of this, it's going down as you now have a judge telling Ice and the Trump administration that they can't keep targeting protesters who aren't breaking the law, ruling one, federal agents cannot detain peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities. until they can't use chemical agents to retaliate against protected speech. the of course, this is Trump and his administration and those acting at the behest of it.

13:46 So that may not stop anything. most likely the way that you'd see this play out is that they would make the argument that the protesters, they were actually being violent, whether they actually were or not. fact, it appears that they're doing as much and all of that as we're seeing reports about things like ice, tear gas, and two parents and their six kids who accidentally drove into a confrontation between protesters and Ice on their way home from a basketball game. their mom, Destinee Jackson, saying they pulled over because protesters in parked cars were making it difficult to pass.

14:09 husband Jonathan tries to back up, but federal agents had already surrounded their car, trapping them in, an agent yells for them to get the fuck out of there. They say we're trying destiny. Then tell Sean not to move. Scared out of her mind that they're about to become the next any good. and then she sees a flash. Bang. A tear gas canister rolls under the car. She feels the car bounce and come back down. next thing she knows, the air bags of inflated tear gas is filling the car. They're fumbling to unlock the doors with their kids right.

14:32 And all the while, their six month olds just strapped in a car seat until a bystander reportedly frees the baby and brings them to destiny. and destiny. She says that he wasn't breathing and was foaming at the mouth, so she starts giving him CPR as other people pour milk over his eyes to wash away the tear gas. And luckily, in the end, the baby being revived and taken to the hospital with the whole family expected to be okay. that story is also actually something that host Margaret Brennan confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with directly to her face yesterday on Face the Nation.

14:58 Before then also asking Noem about the judge's order to stop using chemical agents. And there you had no response being. was, a little ridiculous because that federal judge came down and told us we couldn't do what we already aren't doing. We we are. We just saw a video of chemical which is being used any. We only use those chemical agents when there is violence happening and perpetuating. And you need to be able to establish law and order to keep people safe. That's the only situation. So that judge's order didn't change anything for how we're operating on the ground, because it's basically telling us to do what we've already been doing.

15:33 also with us, you had Brennan pressing Noem on Walz's claim of the agent who killed Renee. Good isn't under any sort of investigation. And initially, you see Noem try to deflect and make this all about something else. let me talk to you about the officer, Jonathan Ross. He was struck. He was hospitalized. Don't say his name. I mean, for heaven's sakes, we we don't we shouldn't have people continue to dox law enforcement when they have an his name is published on increasing threats against them. I know, but that doesn't mean it should continue to be said We are following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under Ice and under the Department of Homeland Security and within the administration, Do I understand you saying that the Office of Professional Responsibility is doing its own probe to determine that the Ice agent violated protocol, and that he was on three days of administrative leave,

16:18 because that is what is in the handbook, the protocol, in the advice and the guidance within that handbook and within our policies is being followed exactly like it has been for years. Right. But with all that, Noem never actually says outright that Ross was put on administrative leave or is under investigation, instead just blaming the left for attacking Ice agents. while you also had Brennan referencing CBS reporting from last week that Ross suffered internal bleeding. Reports have since come out that there was a major internal divide at CBS on reporting that, because CBS says that they got the information from two anonymous U.S.

16:49 officials, but it was never actually able to confirm the extent of the bleeding. And you had CBS news, a senior VP, even noting that in an email. Writing. I'm no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity. A bruise is internal bleeding, but it can also be something serious. the the newly appointed editor in chief, Barry Weiss, is reportedly very interested in covering that angle. right. That's really just the latest hot water that CBS news is found itself in under Wise's so-called leadership.

17:12 like his, if you didn't see it last week, they ran a full 13 minute interview with Trump and evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil. which to many sounded unusual because you usually don't get a complete 13 minute interview in a network news show that's crunched for time. then over the weekend with the New York Times reporting on an audio clip where press secretary Caroline Leavitt said that Trump would sue the network if the conversation did not air that way. the times didn't publish the audio, independent reporters shared clips matching the times as transcript, where you can hear a person who appears to be live at, say.

17:37 make sure you guys don't come back to make sure that interview is out. So, yeah, we're doing it. Yeah. Said it's not out. And so we'll see her out. So. Oh, great. Okay. I don't know how he does that. I think that when I only have 19 minutes and 30s. How long have we got? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So why did you go? in this idea, that term, the president would sue a major news outlet if it made editorial decisions that he disagreed with. It caused a lot of backlash. especially because it's something Trump's done several times now.

18:06 in fact, you might remember, he landed a massive settlement from CBS last year over a 60 minutes interview that it ran with Kamala Harris. and that's why you have many saying this is a very real threat, even though some of the CBS personnel who were there read Levitt's remarks in jest. without you at the time saying, you know, if you don't find it funny, that's fair, because once the president is willing to sue a news outlet and the outlet is willing to settle the calculus for its journalists is indelibly, inexorably changed.

18:28 for their part, CBS released a statement claiming that they decided to air the Trump interview unedited the moment that they booked it. Levitt also defended her demands by saying that the American people deserve to watch President Trump's full interviews unedited. No cuts. And guess what? The interview ran in full. still you had so many seeing CBS airing the entire thing, not really being an independent decision, but rather as it being another case of the network functioning as a mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

18:50 many, it feels like just thing after thing. Right. One of the biggest controversy actually happened last year when Weiss decided to shelve a 60 minutes piece about abuses in the El Salvador prison, with the correspondent behind the piece claiming that it was a political decision. Actually, the reason I mentioned that is because we got an update. The piece ended up airing last night. correspondent reportedly had to record a new intro and ending to incorporate some of the additions I requested, but the main body and the reporting in the story, it was the same as it was back in December when it was originally delayed.

19:15 and with that, you would a spokesperson insisting that the network was always committed to running the story as soon as it was ready. also with that, right, with people watching this story, you had many thinking, you know, as they were watching it, that this was unethical and absurd, that Weiss ever tried to shelve the piece in the first place. many also speculating that Weiss and other Trump friendly people there maybe didn't change the piece more because it actually leaked and played in Canada, and people would be able to compare and contrast the two.

19:36 With all this, as far as why there's been a rightward shift at CBS, you have some time to the fact that Paramount CEO David Ellison, as the son of Larry Ellison, a billionaire who supported Trump. also separate but really connected. You have people saying it's because Paramount is trying to throw a Hail Mary to acquire Warner Brothers, which is a merger that only Trump administration approval. also even with that, I'll say that Trump has not been afraid to try to assert power over CBS here. Something made very apparent in that threat to sue the network.

19:59 that's part of a larger friction between the Trump administration and a fully functioning free press. mean, there are examples left and right. I mean, just last Friday, we learned that the Pentagon is revamping the military newspaper stars and Stripes. Right. You the Department of Defense's assistant secretary, saying or the outlet will refocus away from what they called woke distractions that siphon morale. that also is the paper is not actually the Pentagon's to revamp. actually, we thought you had Stars and Stripes saying this announcement appears to challenge the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes, which, while a part of the Pentagon's defense media activity, has long retained independence from editorial oversight from the Pentagon under a congressional mandate that is governed by First Amendment principles.

20:32 also the editor in chief saying that the people who risk their lives in defense of the Constitution have earned the right to the press freedoms of the First Amendment adding, we will not compromise on serving them with accurate and balanced coverage, holding military officials to account when called for. so there've been a lot of eyes on that situation, especially since this news came just after the Washington Post reported that people applying to work for Stars and Stripes, they were asked if they support Trump's policies.

20:53 applicants using the government's job site have been asked things like, how would you advance the president's executive orders and policy priorities in this role? identify 1 or 2 relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired. but that my friends, you beautiful bastards, is where your Monday Philip DeFranco show is going to. And let me just say thank you for watching. I love yo faces. And I'll see you right back here tomorrow for another daily dive into the news.

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