Tom Bevan
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And I was going to say urgently, and maybe it's not urgent, but I think to Trump it is.
I mean, he's only got a couple more years left in office, and he sees this as part of, I think, his legacy in terms of defending the United States.
And he talked about the Golden Dome and all that.
So it definitely was, I think, classic Trump and fairly entertaining stuff from him.
I don't believe any of it.
I don't think it has anything to do with national security.
And I don't even think it's because of all the minerals.
I think...
Donald trump wants a feather in his cap.
He wants it like You know, you know seward's folly.
We got alaska for what seven million dollars I think he wants greenland because he for the same reasons he renamed the kennedy center after himself I think he wants to acquire this territory.
It is rich in minerals um, and and this
But this thing, Megan, you know, Tom and Andy, I don't think feel strongly about this as I do.
I don't think they agree with me at all, actually.
But this idea that you ridicule these people or shame them or threaten them because we liberated Europe from the Nazis.
You know, the Russians lost 20 million people.
We shouldn't forget that, liberating Europe from the Nazis as well.
Right.
It sets on its head Americans' idea of itself in the world.
It was General Mark W. Clark, World War II general, who said, you know, pointed out, we didn't go to Europe for conquest.