Ben Rhodes

Like show that there is a military commitment to defend this territory.

I would be anteing up the tariffs, right?

I would be threatening to essentially invoke –

the coercion principle in the EU, right?

That this is the idea that if you are trying to coerce the EU territorially, which is exactly what he's trying to do, that you're essentially going to rug pull them from European markets, right?

It is.

And they don't have to necessarily use it.

But if you start to threaten these things, or you start to kind of pull from US investments, by the way, there would be some economic costs like we saw today.

I would much rather there be some market disruptions than the US, through this appeasement strategy of the Europeans,

then invades and takes Greenland and breaks NATO.

And by the way, if people want to say like, oh, you know, are you siding with the Europeans?

No, as an American, I don't want us to do that.

Like, I would like this president to be stopped.

Same thing with the Republicans in Congress who like to go on the codels to Denmark and reassure them.

Don't reassure them.

Get to fucking work drafting a resolution.

You can't reassure them.

You have no power.

Well, try to assert power, right?

And Trump may try to annoy you, but everybody needs to be pushing back because he's made it clear that he's not going to stop.