The Trump Team’s GRIFTS for Greenland, Gaza, and Beyond
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlev, and I'm joined today by Aaron Parnas. How are you?
I'm good. No, like, fancy intro today?
Well, I'm adding to it. No, I'm sorry. Sub-stacker extraordinaire, voice of a generation, the man, the myth, the legend, Aaron Parnas. You feel better now?
An honor. An honor, truly.
I want to talk about politics, but are you watching Heated Rivalry?
Or have you watched it? It's on my like, I've seen some like clips on Instagram that have popped up on my feed, but I... Like sexy ones or different ones? All of the above. There's actually not a lot that isn't sexy ones, but... Well, so for me, it's like I watch TV shows like years after they're actually released. So like right now I'm watching season one of White Lotus.
Oh, okay. Yeah, we live in different worlds.
Yeah, so heated rivalry will be like a 2027 project.
Okay, so before the election, I'll be like, who do you think is going to win? Also, have you seen Heated Rivalry?
And then we'll see what happens.
Okay. Anyway, I'm watching it.
Oh, good. Okay, cool. Like a family-friendly show or no?
No, the girls don't watch it. But watching it with Brian was interesting because he played football in college. And I'm like, is this what locker rooms are like? And then we talked a lot about shower setups in men's locker rooms.
Based on what I understand in the locker room I grew up in, that is kind of how locker rooms are like in the sense of like an open shower.
It's weird. Yeah. But like with a lot of heads. Like. But this is like my best chat ever. We'll talk more about heated rivalry later. We got to talk about politics stuff. Big week. Trump was at Davos, made some waves. The Democrats are getting into their 2028 primary calendar fight. RFK Jr. is on national tour with his new dietary guidelines, which I don't know. I hate that I'm going to ask you what you think he's actually doing out there and if he is going to try to run for president in 2028 because I just can't take that. Also, J.D. Vance is in Minnesota. There's a lot going on. First to Davos, Trump went there pitching himself as the dealmaker, left rattling markets and allies. After reigniting trade war fears and threatening tariffs over Greenland, he suddenly announced a quote-unquote framework for a future deal, then backed off.
Other European leaders just came out and said nothing. that what he told us was true wasn't actually true, which doesn't particularly shock me. Mark Carney was the big winner of the week. I'm getting ahead of myself here. Anyway, what did you make of the Trump spectacle in Davos?
It kind of seemed like all one big grift in a way, a grift that actually is going to make a lot of people money. Because what Trump likes to do, if you look at the stock market, he says tariffs, then the stock market falls, then people buy. Then he says no more tariffs. And then the stock market's now rising again and people are making money. People probably close to the White House are making a good amount of money right now. Then you have this peace, board of peace that the only people signed on to are some like small countries or like MAGA allies. And by the way, a dictator in Belarus. And most of Europe hasn't signed on to it. Then you look at what Jared Kushner wants to do in terms of rebuilding Gaza.
They just look dystopian. Like we don't have buildings like that in the United States, but that's what he wants. for Gaza to look like, it all kind of just seemed like one big kind of, I don't know, grift. But I will say the whole Greenland-Denmark situation, I think what happened was, and people can correct me if they think I'm wrong, is that's just an off-ramp for Trump, right? Like, I never thought, I personally never thought we were going to invade Greenland. I thought that was a crazy thing to even suggest. I never thought that the United States would even take complete ownership of Greenland. Do I think that the United States should have more kind of military presence in and around Greenland and have some more control over the shipping routes?
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