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President Trump's Greenland Deal
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| The House is expected to gavel in at 9 a.m. and we'll take you there. | |
| Let's start with President Trump's post on True Social. | |
| He posted this yesterday at 2.27 p.m. and he said this. | |
| Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Ruda, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic region. | |
| This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America and all NATO nations. | |
| Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. | |
| Additional discussions are being held concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. | |
| Further information will be made available as discussions progress. | |
| Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and various others, as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations. | |
| This is the New York Times with this headline. | |
| Trump says he has a framework for a Greenland deal as NATO mulls U.S. sovereignty over bases. | |
| It says that President Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the framework of a deal with NATO over Greenland's future hours after alliance officials separately discussed the possibility of the U.S. obtaining sovereignty over land from military bases. | |
| Mr. Trump's announcement was among a series of moves on Wednesday that appeared to draw the United States back from the possibility of military and economic conflict with his allies over Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. | |
| It says that he withdrew the threat of additional tariffs from European allies that had resisted his insistence on owning Greenland and said he would not use force to assert American ownership. | |
| And here is President Trump yesterday in Davos taking questions about this topic from reporters. | |
| Confused you. | |
| Say it. | |
| What did Mark Ruth say? | |
| Well, he's a great leader. | |
| I think he's fantastic. | |
| The secretary general was representing the other side, which is really astute because, you know, a very important member of NATO. | |
| I've done a lot for NATO. | |
| And it's really nice. | |
| I mean, it's a deal that everybody's very happy with. | |
| Does it still include you? | |
| Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you've said you wanted? | |
| It's a long-term deal. | |
| It's the ultimate long-term deal. | |
| And I think it puts everybody in a really good position, especially as it pertains to security and minerals and everything else. | |
| How long is it, Mr. President? | |
| I've already spoken for other European leaders. | |
| Have you already spoken for other European leaders? | |
| Yes, I have. | |
| How long would the deal be, Mr. President? | |
| Infinite. | |
| It just means for them. | |
| It just means for them. | |
| There's no time limit. | |
| It's forever. | |
| And how would you ratify the deal? | |
| There's going to be money involved. | |
| It's signed forever. | |
| But you haven't signed anything yet, right? | |
| It's a deal that's forever. | |
| Will there be a deal anyway, Mr. President? | |
| Will there be an time living? | |
| No money, it's a good deal for Europe. | |
| What happens is people are out there and they're working there right now. | |
| They're working the details of the deal, but it's what's called an infinite deal. | |
| It's forever. | |
| You talked about being concerned, Mr. President, about Russia trying to come and take over Greenland. | |
| If you're worried that Putin would do something like that, why invite him to join your board of peace? | |
| Because we want everybody. | |
| We want all nations. | |
| We want all nations where people have control, people have power. | |
| That way we're never going to have a problem. | |
| This is the greatest board ever assembled. | |
| And everybody wants to be on it. | |
| But, yeah, I have some controversial people on it, but these are people that get the job done. | |
| These are people that have tremendous influence. | |
| If I put all babies on the board, there wouldn't be very much. | |
| So he was invited. | |
| He's accepted. | |
| Many people have accepted. | |
| I think, I don't know of anybody that hasn't accepted. | |
| But it's going to be great. | |
| I think the Board of Peace will be the most prestigious board ever, and it's going to get a lot of work done that the United Nations should have done. | |
| And we'll work with the United Nations, but the Board of Peace is going to be special. | |
| We're going to have peace. | |
| It started off with Gaza, the Middle East. | |
| We've got peace in the Middle East. | |
| Tremendous peace in the Middle East. | |
| Nobody thought that was possible. | |
| And that happened by taking out the Iran nuclear threat. | |
| Without that, it could have never happened. | |
| But the board is going to be, I think, really fantastic. | |
| And I think it'll be the most prestigious board of any board ever in world history. | |
| I was a president yesterday in Davos. | |
| We do have all of the, we have on our website, ceasepan.org, all of the video that we have from Davos and the World Economic Forum. | |
| If you'd like to, if you missed anything, you can go back and watch. | |
| Darrell, Columbus, Georgia, Democrat, you're on the air. | |
| Good morning. | |
| Hey, Mimi, how are you doing? | |
| Good. | |
| Good, yes. | |
| Well, Taco Trump has kicking out again. | |
| We all know that Taco stands for Trump always kicking out. | |
| This thing with Greenland, this deal has already been in existence for over 75 years now. | |
| So there's not going to be no new deal. | |
| He just did all this yesterday to try to save faith because he is embarrassed. | |
| I'm glad that Europe, the Europeans, stood up against him. | |
| And I'm also concerned about this thing with this board of peace with Vladimir Putin being on the board. | |
| And Vladimir Putin has already paid his $1 billion. | |
| So this was never about no national security. | |
| So if you're going to bring Vladimir Putin in, and he's on your board, along with Victor Orban and all these other crazies, it's never about no national security. | |
| America better wake up. | |
| And also, one quick thing. | |
| I'm glad Jack Smith thing is coming on today. | |
| Thank y'all, C-SPAN, for that. | |
| And Republicans have also told me to stop calling Trump a pedophile. | |
| So I will stop. | |
| My wife told me to stop doing it too. | |
| So instead of calling him a pedophile, I just call him a child toucher. | |
| How about that? | |
| Okay, Darrell. | |
| And he did mention that hearing today, this is in front of the House. | |
| Judiciary Committee former Special Counsel Jack Smith will be testifying. | |
| We'll be carrying that live. | |
| That starts at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. | |
| That's on C-SPAN 2. | |
| And we will be re-airing it. | |
| We'll also be putting it on our website, c-span.org. | |
| You can also watch it on the app. | |
| So that does come up today at 10. | |
| Vincent, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Independent Line. | |
| Good morning. | |
| Yes, good morning. | |
| And very quickly, in response to that call, since you let that call a talk call Trump, a President Trump, a pedophile, in sibling words, I'd like to remind people, and you folks, you remind people too, that you news folks, President Trump turned Epstein in. | |
| President Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago home, and many of the women said Trump never touched them. | |
| But let me stick to the topic here. | |
| You know, nothing will be worth nothing to us if Trump doesn't, if we don't get Greenland. | |
| It's strategic. | |
| You can forget about your deaths, your oaths, and all the other things, because we won't have a country. | |
| China and Russia will blow us away. | |
| That is unmilitary. | |
| That is strategic. | |
| We need Greenland. | |
| And Trump has no intention of putting boots down on the ground. | |
| Let me ask you, since you're former military, can we achieve our national security interests without actually owning Greenland by having that base, by maybe having another base if we need it? | |
| What are your thoughts on that? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| But does it make sense to lease, defend leasing? | |
| There's a lot of, the Democrats could work all around the fact that it's leased, and they will. | |
| Democrats hate America. | |
| You Democrats hate us. | |
| But yes, it makes absolute sense to make it a part of the United States. | |
| Leasing won't work. | |
| Leasing won't work. | |
| But hasn't it worked up until now? | |
| I mean, that's the argument being made. | |
| No, it hasn't worked. | |
| And you know what? | |
| It hasn't worked because there's so much static against it. | |
| These foreign countries, whose country will not be attacked, they're not in the line of fire. | |
| We're in the line of fire. | |
| And to own it and make it one of a part of the United States gives us more authority to defend it. | |
| We're not going to defend something we just lease. | |
| All right, Vincent. | |
| And this is what the Danish Prime Minister said in a statement. | |
| He said this. | |
| NATO is fully aware of the Kingdom of Denmark's position. | |
| We can negotiate about everything politically: security, investments, the economy, but we cannot negotiate about our sovereignty. | |
| I have been informed that this has not been the case either. | |
| And of course, only Denmark and Greenland themselves can make decisions on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. | |
| The Kingdom of Denmark continues to seek a constructive dialogue with allies on how we can strengthen security in the Arctic, including the United States' Golden Dome, provided that this takes place with respect for our territorial integrity. | |
| That was reported in Politico. | |
| Kevin, Staten Island, New York, Republican. | |
| Hi, Kevin. | |
| Hi, good morning. | |
| Nice to have you. | |
| Thank you for having me on. | |
| A lot of people are anti-Trump that are calling in anyway. | |
| But realistically, when you look at strategic pinpointing, Russia, at one point in time of the year, can walk right across the Bering Sea because it's so low. | |
| But the idea is Iceland and Greenland, all of these areas are strategic points in maintaining security of the United States. | |
| I mean, if you look at Putin, Putin is former KGB. | |
| He's like a rabid dog at times. | |
| China is their ally. | |
| I mean, they're both communist nations. | |
| So realistically, the bridges that Obama and Biden had burned and sold out our country, Trump and Vance are trying to advance us back to superiority and protect our nation. | |
| And if you look at what's going on abroad with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are basically their allies also. | |
| They're attacking places of worship now in New York. | |
| So, I mean, we're dealing with a very serious critical point, and Trump is trying to do the best he can at what he has to work with. | |
| But he has a lot of opposition because there's a lot of iniquities that the Democrats have committed, and they're trying to blow smoke. | |
| All right. | |
| And then Brooklyn, New York, Democrat, is it Alexander? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| Hi. | |
| Good morning. | |
| Good morning. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | |
| Yeah, I don't even know where to start with this president. | |
| He made a complete fool of himself yesterday at Davos. | |
| He insulted the president of France, said that Carney, the PM of Canada, was alive, and Canada is alive only because of him, insulted Switzerland. | |
| And then he says that he needs a piece of ice because it's strategic to the U.S. You can continue watching this on our website, c-pan.org. | |
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