Steve Stromberg

But it still sort of feels like he hasn't gotten the memo until the last 24 hours or so.

Is that how you read it?

Is he just so isolated from reality and how things are playing out that he feels like he's still winning or at least can't back down politically?

So you see Trump as comparable in cynicism to Netanyahu, to Hamas's leaders.

Let's be very clear about that.

And this has me thinking, though, this has me thinking of last week's crisis.

Remember last week when we had a completely different thing to worry about?

This is Trump's push for Greenland, this needlessly tense Davos summit, this framework, supposed framework that's going to

fix the issue that Trump created.

We had been scheduled to record an episode on exactly that topic later in this week, instead of talking, you know, now we're talking a day earlier on a different crisis.

But all of this has me thinking the notion of American exceptionalism, you know, the claim that our system, our political culture, our principles, our leaders are unique in the world.

It seems to have had a bad month.

if not a bad decade.

Is America's moral mojo gone?

What does all this mean for the United States and the world?

I was in Singapore about 10 years ago speaking to a senior government official there, and he said, United States, you don't understand the gift that you have.

You have the greatest gift, which is people, everyone wants to come to your country.

And I think about that a lot, especially these days, because it does seem like that is changing.

You speak about Trump and his exertion of leverage.

It seems like he's thinking as very short term, and he doesn't think about the reputational effects of pressing Europe on Greenland and these relationships that he's fraying.