Trump stuns the globe with Greenland escalation - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: Trump slides into the Norwegian prime minister's DMs and it's as depressing as you might think. This is just another day.

Donald Trump's obsession over Greenland reached a fever pitch this weekend when it was reported that the administration would put a 10% tariff on Denmark and seven other European countries until Greenland was his. But thankfully, due to the high-stakes nature of this unprecedented international negotiation, America's best communicators were duly involved.

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Scripps News Host: Norway's prime minister confirming he received a text message from President Trump in response to outreach in which the prime minister said that they shared opposition to tariffs and underscored the need to deescalate. Multiple outlets reporting that that message from Trump said he no longer felt obligated to “think purely of peace” after he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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BTC: Wow. And I thought I was petty for throwing a fit after learning there's more than one world's best uncle mug. My god, Trump is throwing our country into further economic chaos because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize from the country of Norway, which is dangerously stupid on so many levels, including this one.

{Scripps News Host voiceover}: …is of course not award given by a committee, not the Norwegian government.

BTC: That's like Bradley Cooper not winning an Oscar and then punching one of the ushers.

Well, we can finally dispense with this fire hose of from the administration as to what's driving Trump's whole Greenland grab. It's not national security. It's not the need to acquire their rare earth minerals. It is one man's petty grievance over not getting a prize that he was never in the running for anyway. Trump is acting like he somehow lost the Nobel Peace Prize. But that's not how it works. There's no pay-per-view peace prize fight. Although there definitely should be because it would be amazing to watch Malala fuck the Dalai Lama up live on TV.

But even if it was the case, Donald Trump, the man who has deployed the US military into the American states, has toyed with invoking the Insurrection Act, and has never met a boat in the Caribbean he didn't want to bomb, would never even qualify to enter the ring.

Also, small thing, he received a text message from President Trump. Text this high-level international diplomacy that could have disastrous consequences for our financial and global security is being handled the same way single people try and hook up? How very Hillary Clinton's emails of him.

But you know what? Maybe he's just not getting the credit he deserves, right? Maybe he is intent on peace. After all, why else would he put together the new Board of Peace if his intentions weren't 100% pure and selfless?

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Ayman Mohyeldin: Trump is proposing that member states be limited to three-year terms on the Board of Peace unless they pay $1 billion to join as permanent members. Trump would also serve as chairman and be tasked with controlling the money himself.

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BTC: First of all, Donald Trump creating a Board of Peace is a little bit like Ghislaine Maxwell starting her own babysitting service or Diddy pivoting to a new career as an onset intimacy coordinator. But Donald Trump wants a billion dollar buy-in from other countries to permanently join what is essentially his privatized version of the United Nations.

I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. Trump wants a tariff war with our NATO allies because he wasn't given the Peace Prize. Trump starts his own UN because, I wonder?

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Trump: All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle and then a teleprompter that didn't work.

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BTC: Now look, I'm not blaming the elevator tech at the UN. I'm merely saying that that person is 90% responsible for the realignment of the global world order.

And look, some people look at the UN and see global achievements for human rights, peacekeeping efforts, climate change initiatives, helping prosecute the world's worst war criminals, while others see a deliberate attempt to sabotage a speech and to conspire to turn moving stairs into just stairs. I genuinely cannot think of anything in the world that would make this Board of Peace more of a sham.

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Unidentified Reporter: President Donald Trump apparently extended an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to join the Board of Peace.

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BTC: Vladimir Putin? What's wrong? Was Pennywise unavailable? Apparently, Donald Trump's zest for peace looms so large that he's stacking it with dictators and autocrats who list some of their favorite hobbies as murdering their own citizens. This isn't a Board of Peace. Trump is just forming his own evil version of the Avengers.

And all of this couldn't come at a better time for our country because a few days from now, Donald Trump is set to headline the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, even went early to set the table.

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Bessent: What do we want to achieve? I think the message is America first does not mean America alone.

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BTC: Not sure Bessent is picking up on the same vibe as the rest of the world. Because there's just something about our president saying, "Give me Greenland or I'll torture your country economically that says I don't play well with others."

The reality is, if we have any interest in continuing this little experiment called democracy, then the world needs to stand up and fight back against the childish tantrums of our current president. And that's exactly what this is. Except for the fact that instead of a child taking their ball and going home, this child is threatening to rip off every other kid in the game and hurl the ball at their faces if they don't play the way he wants. And like anyone dealing with a psycho child knows pleasing them can be a little rattling.

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UK PM Josh Lipsky: The UK and the EU are trying not to escalate, but they're finding increasingly hard to do so and they don't see the areas right now of offramps from the US side and there's no deal space right now. It's unclear what the US wants.

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BTC: What you're saying, give me Greenland or give me a Nobel Prize is somewhat unclear in terms of our nation's interests?

Look, what is clear is that the way these European countries need to fight back is with financial leverage because that is the only thing that will get this man's attention. Well, that in a ladylike brick of gold, but mostly financial leverage. It is the only way this president will listen. Donald Trump doesn't care about diplomacy. He's not affected by strongly worded letters. And as Maria Machado learned recently, gifting Trump the thing he says he wants most still doesn't net you the result that you're looking for.

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TODAY Show Reporter: Despite the symbolic gesture and kind words for Trump, he is still backing interim President Delcy Rodriguez to run the new government in Venezuela over Machado.

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BTC: You see, and Machado can't even wipe her tears with those Nobel Peace Prize tissues she got because she gave those to Trump, too.

Europe is our nation's biggest trading partner for now, and they need to use all the muscle they've got to force Donald Trump's hand. Now, will that suck for American consumers? Yes. Will it suck even more if Europe cowtows to Trump's hardon for imperialism? Definitely. Because if autocrats overthrowing other sovereign countries is just what our world does now, our greatest economic adversary, China, will happily call next. And the first country they'll take over is Taiwan, a little nation that owns 60% of the world's semiconductors, which wouldn't semi-screw the United States, it would fully screw us.

Besides, despite what Trump and the GOP says, working with other nations and having free trade agreements with other democracies around the world doesn't make us suckers, it makes us strategic. Because besides providing lower prices to consumers, it also provides a lower chance of going to war with the world. So, while this administration loves to say…

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Bessent: I think the message is America first does not mean America alone,

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BTC: ...their actions say otherwise.