Bill Kristol: Trump Is Humiliating Us
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Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It's Martin Luther King Day. We're here with you. Hopefully, you are having a restful holiday or a non-restful protest-filled holiday. Either of those are acceptable. Hopefully, you're not working. A couple of notes really quick. So, Saturday night, I taped a discussion with Chris Ostruszko, who's the... Angry guy. He's branded himself as Minnesota Angry Man, which I like that branding. We played at length his rant from the streets of Minnesota last week on the pod. I was happy to talk to him. You can check that out in the Borg Takes feed. Also, I had some wonderful feedback about Friday's pod with Wright Thompson. If you skipped that, give it a listen.
And also, you know, it's maybe the kind of pod that's a little bit off of the news enough. If you've got a friend in your life you want to introduce to the bulwark, it might be a good one to share with them. And the Monday mailbag, it's coming back soon, I promise. We're just working on getting that right for you all. So it's Monday. It's a holiday. He doesn't care. He's working. It's editor-at-large Bill Kristol. How you doing, Bill?
This isn't really work, you know?
This is just... If this were work, everyone would like work. That's a great point. You know, you and me together again, you know? So happy together. Okay, anyway, the news is bad.
Yeah, the news is bad. Not so happy together. Happy to be with you, Tim. Needless to say.
We're going to start with... The imminent invasion of Greenland, I guess. I mean, this is like the kind of thing that if it had been, you know, in the writer's room at Veep, people would like pitched this. So this is too much. OK, like this is like not even Selina Meyer would go along with this. But the real life president is I just want to read a couple of things because it's important to actually. Read the exact text of the official statement of the President of the United States about this. This first one came Saturday, and he writes this. We have subsidized Denmark by not charging them tariffs or other forms of remuneration. Now, after centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back. World peace is at stake.
China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dog sleds as protection, one added recently. He goes on for a while then talking about how dangerous the situation is in Greenland. And then he announces what he wants to do about it. Starting on February 1st, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland will be charged a 10% tariff on any goods sent to the US. On June 1st, they'll be increased to 25%. This tariff will be due and payable until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland. There's more this morning, but I guess just on the tariff part of it, Bill, how do you even react to this?
We're going to do a 10% sales tax on Americans until Denmark gives us Greenland, I guess is the plan.
Yeah, for goods from the EU, right? Which is kind of a major trading partner and a lot of important goods come from there and components of other things that we assemble.
If you're going to be thrilled for their pharmaceuticals, you know, wine and cheese, auto parts, you know, they're thrilled for that to cost more as part of Donald Trump's like...
dick measuring contests with the north europeans i mean it's so insane the trump administration issued its national security strategy at the end of november i believe it was not that long ago 35 pages you know it's not very detailed as these things go but it's it's their strategy such as it is western hemisphere you know uh tough guys and so forth greenland is not mentioned it's utterly fake the i mean he's now decided that fighting russia and china is a little better of a you know on-ramp for sort of republican-ish and conservative-ish types to tolerate this or to go along with this i've noticed this myself in some arguments that you you know, Bill, we got to be serious about Russia and China.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–6:17
2
Why are Tim and Bill opening with Trump's Greenland proposal and what did the president actually say?
6:17–10:27
3
How would proposed tariffs and a Greenland purchase impact US‑Europe relations and trade?
10:27–37:18
4
What are the political and constitutional checks on Trump's unilateral tariff or military moves?
37:18–48:39
Speakers
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