David French
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It's going.
It's going, Michelle.
I mean, look, this is a war that Trump started that our NATO allies were not consulted on.
They had been relentlessly scorned.
As of today on Thursday, Michelle, we have received reporting that Denmark was actually preparing for a potential invasion of Greenland.
That under the guise of exercises, they had sent troops and the troops had explosives to blow up airfields in case America tried to invade.
I mean, this is the environment in which we launched another war.
And then there's a lot of reporting that says that General Kane warned Trump that the Strait would close.
And he pushed through these warnings in a way that was essentially, he denied to himself the potential crisis could exist.
And now that it is, he's lashing out in a million different directions.
And this is the first time in my life that we have had a war leader where
legitimately you wonder, and I don't even wonder that much, is he really mainly motivated by self-interest here, or is he mainly motivated by the national interest?
And everything about Trump that we know says this is a dude that's mainly motivated by self-interest, and also that he's extraordinarily mercurial.
And so we just saw this whole exchange, this big escalation in the war where there was an Israeli strike on Iranian natural gas fields.
Then there was an Iranian strike on Qatar's natural gas fields.
And by the way, these are two of the most important facilities for the production of this vital resource in the whole world.
And Trump comes out and says, well,
Israel struck Iran and then Iran struck Qatar and I didn't want any of this.
And then within moments after that, you get reporting saying, what are you talking about?
Israel says they did consult, that this was a strike approved by the United States and that Trump just doesn't like the blowback from the Gulf states as a result of all of this.