Trump Threatens Norway with Violence? Insiders Talk of 25th Amendment Are Growing

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What does Trump say about the Nobel Peace Prize?

Jennifer Welch 0:04
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when I say this, but I honestly believe Donald Trump would rather take us to war and break with our allies than just accept that he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. This man is still talking about the Nobel Peace Prize, so much so that he sent a letter to the Norwegian prime minister. And here's what it says. Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace. What in the fuck? Why is nobody stopping this? Marco Rubio, you're an expert on foreign intelligence and all that crap. You're the Secretary of State. And he is saying he's no longer going to prioritize peace because he didn't win an award and he got sloppy seconds.
Jennifer Welch 1:06
And the Nobel Peace Prize Committee says you can't take sloppy seconds. It's so juvenile.
Angie Sullivan 1:12
This same Norwegian prime minister, all of the Europeans are starting to leak things, said over the weekend that Trump would call him all the time and would say, y'all need to make sure I get the Peace Prize, you need to make sure I get it.

Why does Trump threaten Norway and its Prime Minister?

Angie Sullivan 1:28
And he would say, the country of Norway has nothing to do with the Peace Prize. And he told him this multiple times, like a dozen times, and he couldn't comprehend it. much in the same way that you cannot comprehend that those seeking asylum and those in an insane asylum are two different things. So we have a comprehension level there. But think about the toddler like impulse of I'm all for peace. as long as you give me a trophy. And then if you don't get me a trophy, I'm going to start World War III. And as for why nobody is stopping him, number one, I would argue that Marco Rubio is not an expert in foreign policy. Marco Rubio is an expert in ass kissing. You have a dictator that's not even that good of one on the national stage, and he is committing suicide of this country, and we're all sitting here watching it.
Angie Sullivan 2:31
And you have the Republicans who are part of the hive mind that will do whatever he says because – from Trump 1.0, we know that if you disagree with him, you're going to get fired. So there haven't been a lot of firings this go round because nobody will disagree with him. Nobody will say your letter is bananas. You look like a toddler. This is unpresidential. Nobody is going to say that to him. And so he continues to do all of these things.

How does Trump's behavior reflect his approach to foreign relations?

Angie Sullivan 3:01
And so that leads me back to what I always come back to the Democrats. So what are they doing right now? And what you have is a very disjointed resistance. You have the Chris Van Hollens, the Bernie Sanders, the Elizabeth Warrens that seem to understand that these corporate Democrats are compromised and not – in a position to lead the resistance or to lead the Democratic Party. And then you have the Cory Bookers, the Chuck Schumers, the Hakeem Jeffries that play patty cake with fascists. And the end result is the underlining of the economy that he's eroding right now with nobody wanting to come here for tourism, nobody wanting to do business with us, our allies turning to China and other superpowers.
Angie Sullivan 3:49
is generational economic damage to one of the world's greatest economies in the world. So my question is to all these country club Republicans that are able to accept homophobia and able to accept racism without even losing it. I mean, just a little bit of sleep at night because you're fiscally conservative and you vote your pocketbook and it only affects me and my tax bracket. I don't care what happens to these black people or these, you know, immigrants. He just screwed you too, which goes to what we've been telling everybody all along. Nobody is safe under this man. No one.
Jennifer Welch 4:27
Well, he's completely unhinged. And then you see what he's, you know, he's talking about Greenland. He's talking about Cuba. He's Columbia, all this shit, you know, threatening war against everybody. And then we learned from Kristen Welker at NBC News that now he's going to turn his focus on Canada. our closest neighbor and what was our closest ally.

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