Jon Lovett

It's discouraging.

Also, we have a bipartisan delegation that is like meeting with the Danes.

And you got to think like what how impotent Congress is that like now we send by we send codels abroad by person delegations to be like.

They're trying to reassure NATO and the European allies that we're not actually going to take Greenland by force.

But they can't do that because they're not actually going to do anything.

We talked about how around 75% of Americans oppose acquiring Greenland, over 90% oppose acquiring Greenland by force, including most Republicans, which is why more Republicans in Congress are breaking with Trump on this than almost any other issue.

Though you can already see some of them starting to get a bit more comfortable with Trump's imperialist ambitions.

Here's Ted Cruz over the weekend.

Yeah, that's just that's just the way it is.

We just acquire things.

The sun, the sun must never set on the Mar-a-Lago empire.

Yeah.

I thought what was particularly notable about Cruz's comments there is that here he is in 2016 speaking to us from the future.

Nailed it.

Nailed it.

Wow, Ted.

How did he know?

Now he's like, let's do it.

Lay off Heidi.

That was when he was yelling about that.