Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau. I'm Jon Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor. On today's show, we will celebrate two of history's greatest advocates for peace, Martin Luther King Jr. and Donald Trump, by talking about the latter's threat to invade Minnesota and Greenland.
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Chapter 2: What are Trump's latest threats regarding Greenland?
What are you talking about? Cooler heads will prevail. TDS. And here we are.
The invasion of Minneapolis, I might have been worried about. Sure, sure. Greenland did not see coming.
No, that's a surprise. That is a surprise.
I got to say, like, there's so much about this that's amazing to me. Like, the logic of I'm not going to avoid killing people unless you give me a prize for it is just such, like, a sixth grader. Like, I'm not even going to do my ā if you won't let me play Xbox, like, why even bother trying my homework?
Also, yeah, as you mentioned, sitting members of parliament are not allowed to be on the Nobel Committee because they didn't want to be seen as, like, a government award. I would also point out that ā
The argument that boats landing somewhere a few hundred years ago doesn't mean you own the place will come as a surprise to a lot of these kind of right wing heritage Americans who think they were the first residents of North America. And then like I just it's worth it's exhausting. I do want to just repeat that Trump has not solved eight wars.
Eight plus.
Yeah. not even close. He says he ended a war between Egypt and Ethiopia that was never fought. Like, I don't know how to say that differently. There was never one. They have a longstanding diplomatic dispute over a hydroelectric dam project, but there was never a war. He also includes Israel and Iran in there. You as part of that conflict, which doesn't feel very Nobel Peace Prize-y.
And I just, I do want to quickly point out, I try not to do this often, but with respect to Iran, Trump is probably directly responsible for getting thousands of Iranian protesters killed because he tweeted that he would, quote, rescue them, protesters, if they go to the street, they should take to the streets, take over their government. Then there was a huge crackdown by the Iranian regime.
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Chapter 3: How do Trump's tariffs affect international relations?
And his joke was that if anyone ever tried to invade Greenland, Denmark would have no choice but to rescue them. So I do think some of the harsh nature of the terrain is part of it. Quite cold.
See that NBC story too that Trump has been, he's starting to complain about Canada's vulnerability in the Arctic.
The Arctic, I saw that.
The northern border of Canada.
I saw that.
No conversations yet about sending any troops there or taking over Canada. I mean, we did do the 51st state thing a while back, but he's getting annoyed. So this is how it starts.
Can I go full blue sky for a moment? This place I'm not on. If you were to write down the list of the things a president would do to destroy America's standing in the world and make us a pariah nation and kind of destroy our long-term prospects as a leading economy, is there anything that you'd be doing differently than what Trump is doing?
Or is this just the full list of things you would do to hand the world order over to China and Russia?
via a dispute over Greenland, which is the most absurd, funniest and stupidest and thus typically American way to do it with our TV host at the head of the government. So it is in some ways fitting.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's actions for Minnesota?
The oligarch that, you know, the United States was negotiating with over the future of Gaza in Ukraine, I mean, Dmitry Kirill or whatever the hell his name is, made exactly that joke on Twitter. He's mocking us. Yeah.
Yeah, that makes sense. The tariffs are also we haven't even talked about the tariffs, like because the the text kind of took over the tariff story today. But like we're now we're doing we're going back into we're levying tariffs on ourselves again. Right. There's a new study out. Ninety six percent of the tariffs so far have been borne by Americans, only four percent on foreign exporters.
So now we're just charging Americans more for these tariffs because of Greenland. And then if we end up buying Greenland as opposed to taking it by force, where's that money coming from? I know he'll probably say, oh, it's coming from the oil or the sale of the rare earth minerals. But that's just a lie. So obviously it's going to come from the Treasury.
So that's going to be more money from us, too. So that's great. Good way to deal with costs.
What is the ability of these tariffs? Exactly. The emergency authority he's been abusing to put these tariffs in place. He's creating the emergency. He he's he's the emergency Greenland. The emergency is we must take Greenland and we must have tariffs until we have Greenland. Besson was asked about this on television.
He basically kind of funfired and had no defense for the claim that the emergency is we want Greenland. What the fuck is he talking about?
So you said the emergency was preventing an emergency.
Yes, that's right. The emergency is preventing an emergency.
Well, by the time you guys listen to this, the Supreme Court could have struck down the tariffs, but they're also ready. The trade representative says he's ready with new tariffs that somehow are going to be more legal than these. So they're all going to Davos. It's all going down to Davos this week. Trump's going there with the other European leaders. I just want to read you guys.
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Chapter 5: What are the current concerns regarding ICE's actions in Minneapolis?
And again, when you talk to people in focus groups and you ask them, like this is the first thing that comes up now, right? Like it is people worry about the cost of stuff and they are mad about the ice. the S raids because they're seeing it everywhere. And it's covered on TikTok. It's covered on local news. It's covered everywhere. People are getting their information these days.
Um, now what you're right, like whether, whether that changes the behavior, who fuck knows, but I do think it's, it's putting some pressure on them.
Yeah. I also, like we were talking about it before, but like, man, these guys are, they signed up for an idea of what this was going to be like. And now they're in these situations and all the anger and the kind of, kind of, kind kind of twitchy reactions.
Chapter 6: What insights are shared about the Democrats' polling for the 2026 midterms?
There's just this look of like, this has gotta be a brutal thing to be dealing with. And like, they put what, 3,000 people in Minnesota? That's a huge share of their force, right? And that is, these guys, like there's all kinds of stories of morale being low. They have to seek volunteers to do this kind of shit.
Like they're gonna do a lot of bluster, but even with this new giant ice, like this is still America, it is a big rebellious, ungovernable place. And they just don't, they like- We're proving that now. Yeah, yeah. And like, what are they gonna continue this? That we send the same, put these guys in the next fucking Best Western? Pot Save America is brought to you by CookUnity.
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Chapter 7: How does Tucker Carlson's career reflect changes in conservative media?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of Tucker Carlson's relationships within the Republican Party?
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