The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1892 - BREAKING: France Prepares For WAR If Trump Invades Greenland
16 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Melania, only in theaters January 30th. As tensions over Greenland ramp up between the United States and Denmark, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be sending French troops to the Arctic island to participate in joint military exercises with Denmark. Now, as longtime viewers of this show know, I am something of a Francophile, and not just when it comes to Francisco.
France has magnificent art, architecture, literature, food, but one area where, for at least a century now, France has not particularly excelled is military conflict. I actually keep the flag of the French army in my desk in case my nose starts running during the show.
This is why it is absolutely fitting that one day after France offered Denmark military help, Danish leaders met with the White House to discuss how and when they would just hand over Greenland. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show.
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Chapter 2: What military actions is France considering regarding Greenland?
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Trump says we want Greenland. This goes back to the State Department policy since the 19th century. The US has wanted Greenland for a long time. Now it seems strategically urgent, very, very important. And so Trump says, we want Greenland. Denmark says, you'll get it over our cold, dead Scandinavian bodies. We're keeping our colony. We're keeping our overseas territory of Greenland.
There's no way you're gonna take it from us. We're gonna defend it. We have friends, Trump. We have friends and we're gonna defend Greenland. And then they're waiting for their friends to come. And all they get is Emmanuel Macron. Stomach goes, do not worry, Denmark. Do not worry. We are here. You have the entire might of the French army behind you.
And then Denmark says, all right, on second thought, Trump, what are your terms? How much are you going to give us? It's yours. Don't worry. It's yours. What exactly happened here? Well, we're not quite sure.
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Chapter 3: How are tensions between the U.S. and Denmark affecting Greenland's status?
The New York Times is confused as ever. What did the White House and Denmark agree to on Greenland? It depends whom you ask. The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland. What Trump says is, look, we don't want it so that we can open up McDonald's there.
There are like no inhabitants. We want it because it's strategically important in the Arctic with regard to Arctic shipping lanes, with regard to some resources, but also just as a way to secure the Western Hemisphere as part of our broader retrenchment in the Western Hemisphere. Because Russia and China are aggressing on Greenland. They want to get a strategic foothold.
We don't want that to happen. And so, sorry, Denmark, you're not able to protect Greenland. We have to do it. Denmark says, yes, we can protect Greenland. Here's Trump's response.
I can't rely on Denmark being able to fend themselves off. They were talking about they put an extra dog, and they were serious about this. They put an extra dog sled there last month. They added a second dog sled. That's not going to do the trick.
So we all listen to this. We all laugh. Oh, ha, ha, ha. What does it mean? What is Denmark defending Greenland? It means they're going to add a dog sled, right? But then something tuned me in. He said, I'm serious. And sometimes when he says he's serious, he's joking. And when he says he's serious, it just doubles the joke. But I googled this one. It turns out he's right.
The Danish defense of Greenland is based in no small part on dog sled teams. With, you know, apparently very well-trained troops. And look, it's the Arctic, so I guess dog sled.
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Chapter 4: What incidents are happening with leftists in Minneapolis?
Look, people have been using dog sleds around the Arctic for a long time, but that's it. The serious, S-I-R-I-U-S, and very, very serious, S-E-R-I-O-U-S, dog sled team is the Danish idea of defending Greenland. Trump is being serious about it when he says, guys, we can't rely on the dog sleds. Okay, we are the United States.
The way that this is being spun up by Europe, which doesn't want to lose Greenland, and spun up by the enemies of the administration and the left broadly is that this is a violation of NATO. Denmark is a NATO ally and Trump is threatening to take their territory. First, he's trying to buy their territory. He's working a deal out here. But second, this is a violation of NATO.
What do you think NATO is? What do you think NATO is? NATO is the American Empire. NATO sprung up after the Second World War for one reason, because of the Cold War. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization sprung up as the American Empire in opposition to the Warsaw Pact, which was the Soviet Empire. NATO's meaning comes from the Cold War. The Cold War has been over for over 30 years.
So what is NATO now? NATO is just the military holdover part of the American empire. So we like our NATO allies. We defend them. We are their military. You're welcome. But let's not pretend this is something other than it is. This is an outgrowth of the American empire.
And I could even understand the criticism if the United States was saying, you know what, Denmark, we're going to invade your country. We're going to take your stuff. We're going to bring over your beautiful Danish Scandinavian ladies. We want them. This is going to be like the Romans with the Sabine women. We're just going to plunder your resources. That's not what's going on in Denmark.
If Denmark were seriously able to secure Greenland against major powers, not minor little powers like Denmark, which hasn't been all that strong since Hamlet died. If they could really secure Greenland and the Western Hemisphere against Russia and China, that would be one thing, but they can't. So we're saying, hey, we don't want it. No offense, but you guys have dog sleds.
We have the only military on earth that can seriously project force anywhere. So we're good job. Thanks. Hey, no hard feelings, but we're going to kind of take over now. Cool, cool. Okay, cool. Now, as a matter of American policy, as I said, we've wanted this for like 150 years, and we've viewed it as strategically important for 150 years.
If we acquire Greenland in a real way, it's like snow Puerto Rico or something, that would expand the size of the United States by 22%. This would be a major expansion. This would be similar to the acquisition of Alaska and similar to the growth of American territories after the Spanish-American War, but bigger, really. I mean, it's a 22% expansion. It's quite a legacy for Trump.
And some people are accusing Trump. They're saying Trump just wants to be a really important guy. He just wants to go down in the history books. Yeah, I'm sure he does want that. But why does he want that? He wants that because he wants to make America great again. He wants America to be stronger.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's interest in acquiring Greenland?
We've just got to stop this. So he's got a lot of camera equipment. I think we can say this is it. Yeah, I'm not. I tried to tell the first lady. Nobody believed me. That's all I can do is tell you. I already showed. Listen, first of all, I don't know. I'm doing that, but I'm kind. I respect what you are doing. Yeah. No, no, no. I really appreciate what you guys are doing.
I just don't have time for my job. I don't know how to do it.
Man, this is pathetic.
This is so pathetic.
This is that scene from Breaking Bad. This is Walter trying to negotiate with the drug dealers who are about to kill his brother-in-law. This is he thinks he can reason with them. Brother-in-law says, what are you talking about? They made up their mind 10 minutes ago. Two TV scenes came to mind, actually.
I was thinking of that scene from Breaking Bad after watching this viral clip out of Minnesota. And then I thought of the scene from Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Frank says, he goes, yeah, they started coming up to me and I didn't know what they wanted, so I started blasting. I just started, which I certainly don't encourage, but two different approaches to this situation.
This guy thinks that these people are being reasonable.
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Chapter 6: How does Denmark respond to U.S. claims over Greenland?
This band of leftists, and they're not black-masked Antifa terrorists. They just look like dopey, annoying... What's the word I'm looking for? The word escapes me. Just... awful kind of white 20-somethings. They walk up, insolent, that's the word I'm looking for, the insolent white 20-somethings, walk up and say, prove that you're not ICE.
He says, okay, all right, I'll show you the back of my SUV, but I don't have to do this. And I support you guys. I support you going around to random middle-aged white guys and demanding that they prove they're not law enforcement, which by the way, if they were law enforcement, they would have no right to do that.
If they were law enforcement, law enforcement should arrest these kids even for asking this question because they're obviously obstructing law enforcement and criminal investigations. But this is... This is what you get when ICE doesn't enforce the law. This is what you get when state and local authorities don't enforce the law. But this is what you get.
All of a sudden, you get these bands of vigilantes going around singling out this guy. Why are they singling him out? Because they seriously think he's law enforcement. Maybe they do. They're singling him out on the basis of his race, sex, and age because they don't like middle-aged white guys. That's what they're doing.
Okay, and this dope is just going around saying, oh, well, all right, now listen, I respect what you're doing. Okay, and I don't need to do this, but I respect it. And please don't, please don't gag up on me. And luckily, the gang that's doing it here is just as dopey as the guy. So, you know, they don't really seem to pose as much of a threat, maybe.
But we've seen these kinds of left-wing gangs commit lots of violence. And we've seen even the bourgeois middle-class white liberals justify that violence and express that in a lot of social scientific surveys. That's what you get. You want to see it get a little more violent? Look at the high school protest organized by the Minnesota schools protest at the Minnesota Capitol.
So first of all, if you went back 15, 20 years and said, hey, this is Minnesota, no one would believe you. I'm seeing a lot of head scarves. I'm seeing ice out. Here we go. It doesn't look like Minnesota 20, 25 years ago. It looks more like Mogadishu, which is why they're calling Minneapolis now Snogadishu. This is Snogadishu.
But you're getting a bunch of high school kids encouraged to go to this by their teachers, by their schools. Just beating each other up, just getting into a playground scrap or a gang war somewhere in the middle of those two things. All because why? What do those two scenes have in common? All because people oppose law enforcement. So you really have two options here.
What the left wants you to believe is you can either have law enforcement or paradise. You can either have these cops who are sometimes they got to beat people up. Sometimes they got to arrest people. Sometimes they have to deport people, these awful cops. And if we didn't have the cops, we'd have paradise. We'd all live together in harmony, singing Kumbaya.
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Chapter 7: What is the role of NATO in the context of Greenland?
Trump won the popular vote, campaigning on mass deportations. And we want to be orderly about it, and we don't want to be needlessly cruel about it, but we want these people out. They have no right to be here. They're causing a lot of problems. They're undermining the rule of law in myriad other ways, and they got to go. That's what most people voted for.
The Hispanic guy sitting in the car having his face scanned by the cop in a perfectly polite interaction. That is exactly what people voted for. The libs want to publicize this stuff? Be my guest, man. Be my guest. You're only going to make the numbers go up. Now, I want to move away from the ICE and the immigration for a second.
I want to get to an economic issue because even some conservatives, they're missing the boat. They're missing the point. The squishes and the more established types, they're missing the point on excellent Trump policies like capping credit card interest rates for one year, an anti-usury jubilee, and banning large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
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Chapter 8: How do societal issues in America connect to immigration policies?
How do I pronounce that? Spontaneous. often times when I don't know what a word is pronounced, I get to look at how it's pronounced and what it even means. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. The condition of being spontaneous. Spontaneity. Spontaneity.
I love this clip. He goes on, he does this with more words, and then people are making fun of him. They're saying, this guy, oh, he's trying to read books, but he doesn't know what the words mean. And this dumb idiot, he is looking up words. When he runs into a word he doesn't know, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You know what that's called? That's called learning. That's called being smart.
That's called using your head. I love that clip. And I love that this guy had the courage to just admit when he doesn't know a word. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I have no false modesty, true humility. I probably have a larger than average vocabulary. I love words. I love language. I wrote a book about language. I regularly look up words that I don't know.
I looked up one the other day. I was reading a poem by W.H. Auden. I looked up the word cerebrotonic. I like that word, cerebrotonic. It's a beautiful word. Maybe we'll talk about it in a work from home Wednesday. We'll talk about because it comes from a poem or was used in a poem. We'll talk about what that word means. I had to look it up. I didn't know what that word meant.
I had an idea based on it, but I looked it up. I do it all the time. That's how you get a larger than average vocabulary. Oh, it's so beautiful. We live in an age that is so prideful, that is so, I don't know, so anxious. So we don't want to admit when we don't know something. The only way you're going to learn things is when you admit you don't know anything. This is great, man.
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