Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What happened at the College Football National Championship game?
I was there with Clay watching the national championship game. Our president, Mr. Trump, President Trump was there. And it was quite a scene. We'll give you some of the highlights from it. And it was amazing to watch Indiana turn a home game for Miami into a home game for Indiana because that is what that stadium felt like. It was a sea of red. Very polite.
I said, Indiana fans are all very nice, very smiley, and they turned around. I don't think they realize I'm a Miami native, so technically I'm supposed to be all about Miami. But you all saw that game, I'm sure, last night. It was actually a very good game. I had Mr. Clay here explaining to me the various players and what was going on, so we had a great time with that.
It is the beginning of year two. of the Trump administration, because it is the one-year anniversary of the inauguration. So year one in the books. Some great wins on the board, I think, already, which we'll be discussing a bit. And then some other things that... are still certainly major challenges to look at, to deal with.
And we have clay today, one of those I think that we could circle and dive into straight away. Greenland. Yes. Who would have thought, who would have thought that this place that generally doesn't get much in the way of press or thought or anyone talking about it, It's quite large and quite sparsely inhabited. Who would have thought that this would become the center of an international imbroglio?
Well said.
I love that word. Thank you. It is definitely causing a hullabaloo. You have various heads of state who are getting quite huffy. And the Wall Street Journal here writing that Trump doubles down on Greenland ahead of Davos arrival. He is making it a thing that does not just go away. I do believe at some point we might have to do a show from Greenland and go check out the Greenlanders ourselves.
But we'll put a pin in that for now. Here, if you want to know how Trump feels about the whole situation... Here it is. This is cut to talking about why does this belong to the people that it has belonged to? Play two.
What do you plan to say to European leaders when they push back on your Greenland plan? Well, I don't think they're going to push back too much. We have to have it. They have to have this done. They can't protect it. Denmark, they're wonderful people. And I know the leaders are very good people, but they don't even go there.
And, you know, because the boat went there 500 years ago and then left, that doesn't give you title to property. So we'll be talking about it with the various people.
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Chapter 3: Why is Trump interested in acquiring Greenland?
You've got space surveillance missions for NORAD, stuff like that. You've got U.S. Air Force, Space Force, civilian contractors, a couple hundred troops there. So on a landmass that size, a couple hundred troops is a tiny, tiny situation. He wants sovereignty.
To your point, he wants the ability to do whatever America thinks is in its interest there when it comes to defense, when it comes to minerals, when it comes to, you know, there's some people who argue at some point glaciers and access to that fresh water could become more interesting and important. I think that's quite a ways in the future.
But I'm just saying these are the things that are under consideration. And he's pushing this. The Europeans did something that I thought was silly. And Trump was asked about this last night. Remember, he was at the game, and as he does, spoke to members of the press yesterday. Here he is. This is cut three.
Because NATO sent token forces to Greenland as some kind of, yeah, it's ours, back off, like a brushback pitch. But it did not have the intended effect. Play three.
Why are you upset about NATO allies thinking that, you know, more seriously by holding military exercises? Well, that wasn't a military. They sent a few people and they say they sent them not for me, but to guard against Russia. But, you know, NATO has been warning. Denmark for about 20 years now, longer than that, 25 years. They've been warning Denmark about the Russian threat.
And it's not only Russia, it's also China. So we'll see what happens. But let's put it this way. It's going to be a very interesting Davos.
Very interesting Davos. By the way, I've never heard that phrase before. I've certainly never heard it from Trump. Clay, he's making this the front and center issue for this conference going on in Switzerland this week of international who's who and what's what. Yeah, and look, I don't know if you saw this, but I know we have the audio because I was just checking to make sure.
Gavin Newsom is at Davos right now, and here is Gavin Newsom I'll play this for a sec, but first, Buck, did you see Emmanuel Macron address Davos wearing sunglasses? This is like the Bono thing now. Bono has some eye condition, they say, so he has to wear red sunglasses all the time. Is that what this guy's going to say? Sunglasses indoors? You need an explanation.
Did Macron's wife slap him again? Remember we saw when he was about to get off the plane and she grabbed him in the face and they were like, oh, we were just joking. Ha ha. Maybe Macron's wife is stronger than people think. Yeah, maybe so. Here is Gavin Newsom. Might have quite the right hook. Gavin Newsom saying he's calling out world leaders. California's governor has traveled to Davos. Cut 19.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's foreign policy regarding Greenland?
It's time to stand united. You make that determination. I don't make that determination. But when you say standing tall, what do you mean? Just I can't take this complicity. People rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns and handing out. I mean, this is pathetic. Nobel Prizes, they're being given away.
I mean, it's just pathetic. And I hope people understand how pathetic they look.
There's your Democrat 2028 nominee. Are there already bets being placed on this one? Because I feel very confident on the Democrat side. First of all, Gavin Newsom feels like he's playing evil Keanu Reeves. When I hear him talk now, it just sounds like he's an actor pretending with that voice. Maybe he's got a little bit more of a cold than normal.
I guarantee you, Buck, that Gavin Newsom has been furious that Tim Walz and Jacob Fry in Minneapolis have managed to push themselves into the chief opposition to Donald Trump. And they have knocked him off the newspaper front pages outside of the opens of television shows. And I think he made a calculated decision, by the way, saying world leaders are in knee pads.
It's a visual that even for evil Keanu coming off the slopes where, by the way, he's a triple black diamond guy.
Even for Gavin Newsom, that's a pretty aggressive take. And I will say there's a lot of public condemnation from Donald Trump, from European leaders, and they say all sorts of things. But he's not wrong about when they actually see him face to face. There's never any opposition that is brought to bear direct, if that makes any sense.
So I'm curious if that might change at all at Davos, whether we're going to get any fireworks starting tomorrow. But it's apparently pronounced Thule Air Force Base, which I didn't know. But some of these pronunciations, because they're localized, can be very tough. Like in Turkish, it's injurlik, not insurlik. I have no hope to pronounce any of these words. I'm not even going to try.
Yeah, that's the big Turkish airbase we've got going on. So anyway, I guess they speak Greenlandish or something. I'm not talking about, obviously there's people there that speak English and they speak Danish, but I think that they must have a native. The people of Greenland, if you're talking about the overall population there, are essentially like what we would think of as Eskimos. Yes.
And I know that Eskimos won and there's Inuit and there's all these other and our Alaska affiliates and our listeners, you guys know all this stuff. I don't. But that's what they are. They're like a sort of a native peoples mostly. So this also raises the question, though, of if they want to go, who's to say no?
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