Jessica Tarlov
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I was particularly struck, a colleague of mine was telling an anecdote about Trump that he asked him, you know, like, what's going on with the ballroom, right?
You know, and the auto pen portraits on the walls and all this stuff.
And
Trump responded something like, well, if I don't do it, nobody will.
And it's the same attitude about the Nobel Peace Prize, right?
Like, if I don't scream from the rooftops that I deserve this thing, I'm never going to get it.
And I don't want to...
reduce it just to a petulant child because he's the leader of the free world.
But as the mother of a four-year-old and a 21-month-old, I recognize a lot of this behavior and it's so disturbing.
And you rightly say, oh, he's trolling about Greenland.
But I got a message overnight from an old colleague of mine
from my PhD program in London, who's Danish.
And a clip of The Five, the show that I'm on, made it over to them, was on their show.
And they were talking about the cavalier attitude towards the European project and our NATO allies.
And he said, we're really scared.
And so people who wipe this away as just a troll, we're frightening millions of people.
with what we're doing right now and how many people are maybe not rubber stamping it, but just kind of letting it go or saying in a gaggle, oh, I didn't, you know, I didn't see what he said, which Republicans love to do.
And I was in London for six years.
I did my grad school work there.
And I remember how hard