David Plouffe

And I think we have to understand a lot of this is about his ego.

But at the end of the day, I think he'd be comfortable having he and Putin and she just carve up the world.

And all three of us are astride stuff, no matter the price that gets paid.

So I think Democrats should make him pay a price for this, which is he's now threatening higher tariffs, which means higher prices for Americans.

To steal Greenland, which nobody in America really supports.

That's going to do nothing but harm our economy and for our alliances.

Like we ought to just pound that away because it's not a stray issue.

It's very much connected to a president who's not focused on the things and is even making it worse.

The thing people most are concerned about, which is prices and the economy.

But it's it's really scary.

And there's no guardrails around this guy.

Unlike the first term, there's nobody around to check his worst impulses.

You can see the deterioration.

And at the end of the day, we know this from the studies of Trump going back to the 70s.

You know, the most important principle for him taught by Ray Cohn is never back down, never apologize.

So the thing that scares me most on this Greenland thing is I'm not sure that I see an off ramp right now.

And I think that's where a lot of the substantive work has to go, which is what is the off ramp?

And at the end of the day, there's going to be no purchase here.

So that's ridiculous.

This would require, I think, military forces to execute what he wants.