Ben Rhodes

Or appease him long enough.

Mark Ruda calls him daddy, giving us a spanking and a text.

Which actually happened, by the way.

That's actually a thing that happened in the world, right?

This doesn't work.

And in fact, like any bully, the more you give him your lunch money, the more he's going to come back for something else.

And by the way, it's not the fucking Nobel Peace Prize.

If they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize, he'd demand the Eiffel Tower.

If they don't stand up to him, and I think they finally figured this out,

if they don't stand up to him, he's going to take Greenland.

Like the status quo, we should all just name this.

Absent something changing, he will try to take Greenland in some fashion, which will shatter NATO and usher in this era of like imperial conquest and competition, right?

flag, you know?

And why not?

We have to take this stuff all seriously and literally to use an early Trump-ism analogy.

But look, so what could they do?

They need to – everybody needs, by the way, to just – we have to push back.

This guy is clearly out of control.

He's clearly the worst version of himself.

If I'm the Europeans, I'm sending actual troops to Greenland, right?