Beau of The Fifth Column

So today we're going to talk about Trump's made up military deployment to Greenland.

If you missed it over the weekend, Trump announced he was sending a quote, great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick and not being taken care of there.

It's on the way.

Later, it was confirmed that DOD had received no such orders.

The video we put out seems to still be the most likely chain of events, in which Trump got embarrassed that a U.S.

service member had to be rescued by Danish forces via a Seahawk helicopter, even though he had spent weeks mocking their forces.

Turns out they do in fact have more forces than just sled dog teams.

which I say again for the sake of clarity.

Those teams are incredibly elite forces, and it's a safe bet those making fun of them wouldn't make the cut.

That led to this question.

Miss Bell, one of the things I love about all of your shows is that you talk about what is likely and potential and possible.

You condition your opinions versus facts.

I was very surprised to hear you just say, no, Trump didn't send a hospital boat without a conditional.

I'm curious how you knew that to be a fact.

I'm pretty familiar with U.S.

military assets, especially medical ones.

When we only have two hospital ships, and I know for a fact they're both just a few hours from my house undergoing maintenance, I know they aren't on the way to Greenland.

But I want to be clear about something.

The Comfort and the Mercy each have a little more than a thousand Navy crew and a little less than a hundred civilian crew members when staffed.

The President of the United States basically told the American people that a thousand service members were deployed when they weren't.