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Glenn Explains Trump's 'Crazy' Foreign Policy Strategy | Guests: Harmeet Dhillon & Peter Schweizer | 1/19/26
19 Jan 2026
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From the East Coast to North America. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. Let me just run down the things we have to talk about today. What the hell is happening in Europe with Greenland? What is happening with Canada? Have you heard what Canada is now doing? Huge, huge, colossal news out of Iran last night. What is Don Lemon doing in Minnesota?
Trump has got 1,500 National Guard that are training. Meanwhile, DSA is training activists in New York for more action like what is happening in Minnesota. The economy, 60% of the U.S. population says this Trump economy is weak. The DOJ is not prosecuting. It seems like Donald Trump, if you're just looking at certain things, that Donald Trump is doing what...
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's foreign policy?
It's been the Middle East, right? We're always being dragged into war into the Middle East. Somehow or another, we're always over there. He knows if we're going to be a strong country, we cannot be in the Middle East. So he makes peace in the Middle East, and he brokers it in such a deal where they're not coming to us. They now all have a peace in that deal.
And so they're now responsible for it, not the United States. We're not the big boy saying, hey, get back to the table. They're at the table, and they have to hold it together so we can focus on other things. Iran, Venezuela, Greenland, these are not crazy obsessions with him. They are nodes. They're nodes of energy. They're nodes of minerals. They're nodes of currency dominance.
They are nodes of missile warning, Arctic control. You know, when you look at Greenland, try this out for size. Imagine just changing this way of thinking. Global warming, global warming, global warming. The poles are melting. If the poles are melting, you have a couple of ways to go. We've got to stop the poles from melting quick. Everybody ship air conditioners up to the polar bears.
We've got to stop making things because we've got to save the polar bears. That's one way of thinking it. Another way is saying, wait a minute, if the poles do melt... The whole world is going to reshape, and that makes the Arctic shipping lanes. Shipping lanes. That's the Middle East, only colder. He sees the future.
And unlike the polite architects of multilateral management, thank you, Woodrow Wilson, he doesn't trust committees to secure the choke points in a world of scarcity. That's what we're headed for, a world of scarcity. When you are a world that is collapsed on its own weight, because I've told you, everyone is collapsing. This has never happened in world history.
Everyone has abused their currency. So everyone is collapsing at once. So what does that mean? That means even if there's no war, the shipping breaks down, the supply systems break down, and you have to be self-contained. So what did he do over in Europe? The first thing he said was, you guys have to take care of yourself. And you have to stand up in your own country for your country.
Don't depend on this globalism. It's not real. It's not going to happen. Now, his worldview, I started looking this up, it's not new. In fact, I mean, you can find it all the way back to the Greeks. But in America, if you look, this is more Hamilton, not Jefferson, more Hamilton and George Washington. Let me explain a couple of things. Washington and Hamilton... Both of them believed.
I mean, Washington used to say in his farewell address and it was ignored for the last century. He said alliances don't get yourself in complicated long term alliances. Alliances are temporary. We have all of these long term alliances like NATO and we're like, what the hell are we even in NATO for? What do they do for us now? It was important back then, but is it important today?
That's Washington. Washington saying they are temporary. Use them, but be friends to everyone. But things are going to change. So that's what he's testing. He's testing now who is really an ally and who's not. Also, trade has to serve national strength. That's Washington and Hamilton. Debt is dangerous, especially if it's external. And industry has to be protected. Lincoln, McKinley,
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Chapter 3: How does Trump's strategy relate to global power dynamics?
Because you sent some boats there 300 years ago. I mean, we had boats there too. And then he said, you cannot be responsible for the security of the Northern Hemisphere. The Danes and the EU are not going to be the ones that prevent war or protect the Northern Hemisphere. It must be the United States. So we must have control of Greenland. Put the map up of Greenland that we had just a minute ago.
If you just see this map and you look at the map of the world, unlike how we always look at the map of the world where Greenland kind of just rolls up at the top, look at the Arctic Circle. Look at Canada and Greenland. Look where Russia and China are. Greenland sits right in the middle of all of that. So Carney says... We want the Danes to have Greenland. That's fine.
I mean, again, the way it happens is a different subject. We've been talking about the importance of Greenland since the 1950s. The United States has said we must control Greenland since the 1950s. Now, between Russia and China, the world is changing and the NATO alliance is weak. And so he's saying we have to have that. Now, cut two from the Canadian prime minister. Cut eight, please.
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Okay, stop. Remember I told you about stress tests? Tariffs are stress tests. What he was doing, I firmly believe this. It makes everything he's doing make total sense. He is stress testing the world. Who's actually an ally? When I put this tariff up on you, I'm going to treat everyone the same. We have said, how come we don't do this? Why are we doing this? They're allies. Why are we doing this?
George Washington said, All allies, all alliances should be temporary. Don't expect the world not to change. Well, the world has changed. And so he's saying, okay, who's really with the West? Who's really with this WEF? And who's with China? Okay. Well, we've already known Trudeau was not, I mean, he was cozying up to China, right?
And that speech that he gave where he's like, I really respect China and the leadership of China, right? Okay, all right. But he wasn't doing this kind of stuff. So Trump puts the stress test on them and says, okay, who are you with? Because Canada, without Canada, what do you have in the Western Hemisphere? You've got to have Canada. You've got to have Greenland.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of immigration on national security?
That means a lot to me. Thank you. It's one of those issues that we've talked a lot about in general, which is immigration. But the book is really about weaponized immigration. And, you know, it's important. We've had the conversations about how immigration affects the economy, how it affects our culture. But when we realize this is actually something that's being wielded against us,
by countries like China, but also Mexico with a real agenda behind it. An agenda, by the way, that I quote them as explaining in the book. I think it puts the immigration debate in a whole different level.
I have to tell you, I learned more in the first two chapters about Mexico that horrified me. Because I've always felt good about Mexico. You know, they have problems with the drugs, and I felt bad for it. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. They are not doing us any favors at all. And we'll get into that here in a second. Can we start with Chapter 1?
And if you don't mind, Peter, I may have to ask you to come over and join me tomorrow as well, because... I don't know if we're going to get past the first two chapters. There's so much meat in here. Um, in chapter in chapter one is proof of concept and it starts with Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro. And I don't recall any of this. Can you take us through that?
Yeah, this is back in 1980, the Mariel Boatlift. And a lot of people that were around will remember that the United States was flooded with Cuban refugees. And Jimmy Carter, when this first started developing, said, you know, we're a compassionate country, which is true. We're going to welcome them with open arms. And Fidel Castro told his top aides, well, we're going to fill their arms with
excrement. He used a different word. And this was really the first modern example of weaponized immigration, because what Fidel Castro recognized was we can actually attack the United States by sending them criminals, people that are mentally ill, but also people that are going to set up criminal networks, drug networks inside the United States.
And so what we thought was a sort of random humanitarian event was actually a targeted attack. And I quote from a government panel that later looked at the Mario Boatlift and concluded that it was probably the third most lethal foreign attack on the United States. Besides Pearl Harbor and 9-11, the Mario Boatlift was probably the third most lethal attack.
And the thing that's so genius about what Castro did is Pearl Harbor in 9-11, you attack us, what happens? We strike you back harder than you hit us. That's the American way. If it's a humanitarian attack through immigration, who do you attack? Who do you launch the military against? So it's genius. And this became a template for a lot of modern Latin American leaders.
In the summer of 1980, when this was unfolding, Fidel Castro goes to Nicaragua to meet with Sandinista leaders. And there's a young revolutionary there named Lula, who later today is the president of Brazil.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of immigration songs in U.S. protests?
to be sung that had anything like that in reverse what people would say meanwhile the left has been saying this is not an invasion this is not an invasion and people believe that it's not an invasion because they know that you know people are struggling to get but the the president of mexico is commissioning these songs and playing them at her rallies that's an invasion that
That's right. And by the way, those songs are also now being played at these protest rallies inside the United States. So when you see Mexican flags being waved in Los Angeles or in the Twin Cities right now, that's not a coincidence. We know that the flag that was waved in Los Angeles was given to that motorcycle rider. Remember that iconic picture?
That flag was given to him by the Mexican consulate. And they play these songs in the United States saying we are more American than the gringos. This is our land. Let me just read a quote from a journalist.
Chapter 6: How does the FACE Act relate to recent protests in Minnesota?
Hang on. Ricky, can you get Matt to get those two songs, have them translated and release them with the translation? So just put the translation on the screen. But those songs have got to be recorded someplace and see if we can have that for tomorrow. Thank you. All right. Go ahead, Peter. We've only got about 90 seconds. Go ahead.
Yeah.
Chapter 7: What role do NGOs play in funding protests and immigration issues?
So this is a journalist, Antonio Frito Zapata in 2023. This is a Mexican journalist. He says when he talks to his friends and colleagues in Mexico, they confidently explain we are taking it back, meaning the American Southwest. This is him.
Quote, so what we are witnessing with this massive legal or illegal immigration of Hispanics, mainly Mexicans, it is a silent, persistent reconquest of vast territories in the U.S. American Southwest with a strong Mexican population, a reconquest of that will have important geopolitical consequences for the future of the United States. Again, this is not me saying it.
This is not some crazy lunatic saying it. These are government officials, respected journalists, and pillars of society in Mexico.
Chapter 8: How does the current political climate affect law enforcement actions?
And Glenn, the protests in Los Angeles last year, I named the Mexican officials that live in the United States. Think about this. There are senior Mexican government officials who live inside the United States who are fanning the flames, organizing these protests and cheering them on. And I quote them extensively in the book.
All right. So we're going to have you quote them, name them by name. And I want to encourage you. This is such an important book. It's called The Invisible Coup by Peter Schweitzer. It's available today. Get it now. The Invisible Coup. More with Peter. Wait until you hear. We have more. We have. Islam. We have China. He has it all.
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We're talking to Peter Schweitzer about his new book, The Invisible Coup. It is out in bookstores tomorrow. It is available online right now. You can get it delivered to you tomorrow by Peter Schweitzer, The Invisible Coup. I think, you know, Peter has been a longtime friend of mine and a writer. And a journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Post, and everything else.
And he's always taken on both sides very fairly. He's not used usually now by The Times or anybody else because he's done books on the Clinton cash. But he's also done it on George Bush, and he's written stuff on everybody, everybody. And very, very buttoned up.
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