Donald Trump's Davos declaration demands Greenland ownership and strips WEF power, while Jared Isaacman leads NASA's Artemis II moon base mission targeting helium-3 mining. Liz Wheeler critiques Attorney General Pam Bondi's ineffectiveness against election rigging and vaccine mandates, arguing Europe faces de-industrialization and sovereignty erosion from Chinese influence. Ultimately, the episode posits that securing Arctic choke points and dismantling globalist institutions are essential for American national security against rising geopolitical threats. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hello, America.
It's Davos Day.
The WEF is happening right now.
The president is speaking.
We've been listening.
I've been making notes.
We'll bring you up to speed here in just a second.
We're going to move our commercial here.
Sarah, I want to go right back to the president because it is live and he is speaking in Davos.
One of the most important speeches I think a president has given in decades.
At least so far.
He was just talking about Greenland.
Let's pick it up live from David.
The President's Davos Speech00:15:35
Think of it.
When I went in a landslide, a giant landslide won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything.
And they only get negative press.
That means that it has no credibility.
And if they're going to get credibility, they're going to have to be fair.
So you need a fair press.
But you also need those other elements.
And I inherited a terrible, terrible situation.
If you look, the border was open.
The inflation was raging.
Everything was bad with the United States when I came into office.
But I also inherited a mess with Ukraine and Russia, something that would have never happened.
And I know Putin very well.
He and I would discuss Ukraine.
It was the apple of his eye, but he wasn't going to do anything.
I said, Vladimir, you're not doing it.
He would never have done it.
It was terrible what happened.
I could see it happening too.
After I left, I could see it happening.
Biden had given Ukraine and NATO $350 billion, a staggering sum, $350 billion.
I came in and just like the southern border, just like inflation, just like our economy, I said, wow, this place is in trouble, meaning our country.
All of these things were out of control.
But the border was out of control.
We fixed it with the strongest border anywhere in the world.
And I've now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars, India, Pakistan.
I mean, I settled other wars that were.
Vladimir Putin called me.
Armenia, Aber, Bajan.
He said, I can't believe you settled that one.
They were going on for 35 years.
I settled it in one day.
And President Putin called me.
He said, you know, I can't believe I've worked on that war for 10 years trying to settle and I couldn't do it.
I said, do me a favor, focus on settling your war.
Don't worry about that one.
What does the United States get out of all of this work, all of this money, other than death, destruction, and massive amounts of cash going to people who don't appreciate what we do?
They don't appreciate what we do.
Talking about NATO, I'm talking about Europe.
They have to work on Ukraine.
We don't.
The United States is very far away.
We have a big, beautiful ocean separating us.
We have nothing to do with it.
Until I came along, NATO was only supposed to pay 2% of GDP, but they weren't paying.
Most of the countries weren't paying anything.
The United States was paying for virtually 100% of NATO.
And I got that stopped.
I said, that's not fair.
But then more importantly, I got NATO to pay 5%, and now they were paying, and now they are paying.
So something nobody said was possible.
They said, we will never go up higher than 2%.
But they went to 5%, and now they're paying the 5%.
They didn't pay the 2%, and now they're paying the 5%.
And they're stronger for it.
And they have an excellent, by the way, Secretary General, who's possibly in the room.
Mark, are you here?
Yes, he's here.
Hello, Mark.
We never asked for anything.
And we never got anything.
We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.
But I won't do that.
Okay, now everyone's saying, oh, good.
That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.
I don't have to use force.
I don't want to use force.
I won't use force.
All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others in World War II.
We gave it back to them.
We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today, we have a budget of $1.5 trillion.
We're bringing back battleships.
The battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in World War II, those great big, gorgeous ships, the Missouri, the Iowa, the Alabama.
Because I thought maybe we could take them out of mothballs.
They said, no, sir, these ships are 100.
Think of that.
100 times more powerful than those big, big, magnificent pieces of art that you saw so many times ago, that you still see on television.
You say, wow, what a force.
100 times, Egypt, 100 times more powerful than the big battleships of the past.
So that was the end of the Mothball story.
So what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing except to protect Europe from the Soviet Union and now Russia.
I mean, we've helped them for so many years.
We've never gotten anything.
Except we pay for NATO.
And we paid for many years until I came along.
We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO because they weren't paying their bills.
And all we're asking for is to get Greenland, including right, title, and ownership, because you need the ownership to defend it.
You can't defend it on a lease.
Number one, legally, it's not defensible that way, totally.
And number two, psychologically, who the hell wants to defend a license agreement or a lease, which is a large piece of ice in the middle of the ocean where if there is a war, much of the action will take place on that piece of ice.
Think of it.
Those missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice.
All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we're going to build the greatest golden dome ever built.
We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada.
Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
They should be grateful also, but they're not.
I watched your Prime Minister yesterday.
He wasn't so grateful.
But they should be grateful to us.
Canada.
Canada lives because of the United States.
Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
What we did for Israel was amazing, but that's nothing compared to what we have planned for the United States, Canada, and the rest of the world.
We are going to build a dome like no other.
We did it.
We did it for Israel.
And by the way, I told BBB, stop taking credit for the dome.
That's our technology.
That's our stuff.
But they had a lot of courage, and they were good fighters, and they did a good job, and we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat like nobody can believe.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
That, Venezuela, taking down Salome, wiping out al-Baghdadi when he tried to reinstitute ISIS.
We did a lot.
I did a lot.
A lot of big things.
All perfectly executed.
Everyone was perfectly executed.
Somebody told me that a military expert told me, sir, everything you've done has been perfectly executed.
I said, I know.
So other presidents have spent, whether foolishly or not, trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO and gotten absolutely nothing in return.
We've never asked for anything.
It's always a one-way street.
Now they want us to help them with Ukraine.
And we say, we're going to, I'm really helping, not even them.
I want to see, last week, if you saw, it was 10,000 soldiers, but last month it was 31,000 soldiers died.
31,000?
That's this room times the number of people in this room times 30.
Think of it.
30,000 soldiers died in one month.
The month before it was 27,000.
The month before that it was 28,000.
A month before that it was 25,000.
It's a bloodbath over there.
And that's what I want to stop.
It doesn't help the United States, but these are souls.
These are young people, look like you, look like some of you right in the front row.
They go to war, their parents are so proud.
Oh, there he goes.
He comes back.
Two weeks later, they get a call.
Your son's head's been blown off.
I want to stop it.
It's a horrible war.
It's a worse since World War II.
They keep going.
They'll exceed World War II.
The numbers are staggering, how many people they've lost.
They don't want to talk about it.
Ukraine and Russia lost just tremendous amounts.
And I'm dealing with President Putin, and he wants to make a deal.
I'm dealing with President Zelensky, and I think he wants to make a deal.
I'm meeting him today.
He might be in the audience right now.
But they've got to get that war stopped because too many people are dying, needlessly dying.
Too many souls are being lost.
It's the only reason I'm interested in doing it.
But in doing it, I'm helping Europe.
I'm helping NATO.
And until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me.
They called me daddy, right, last time.
A very smart man said, he's our daddy.
He's running it.
I was like running it.
I went from running it to being a terrible human being.
But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection.
It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.
But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%.
But I'm not sure that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call.
Gentlemen, we are being attacked.
We're under attack by such and such a nation.
I know them all very well.
I'm not sure that they'd be there.
I know we'd be there for them.
I don't know that they'd be there for us.
So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat, and tears, I don't know that they'd be there for us.
They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you.
I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.
So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money.
But that dip is peanuts compared to what it's gone up.
And we have an unbelievable future in that stock.
That stock market is going to be doubled.
We're going to hit 50,000, and that stock market's going to double in a relatively short period of time because of everything that's happening.
But this is a good example.
After giving NATO and European nations trillions and trillions of dollars in defense, they buy our weapons.
We make the greatest weapons in the world, but now we're going to make them faster, much faster.
You saw that.
I put a cap on the salaries.
Then I put no buybacks, no stock buybacks, no various other things that they were doing.
I mean, they were making $50 million, but it would take them three years to give you a Patriot missile.
I said, that's not good.
My chauffeur can do a better job than that.
And he makes slightly less than 50.
They make big salaries.
If they're going to make those big salaries, they're going to have to produce a lot faster.
The good news is we have the greatest equipment in the world.
Now we're going to start making it a lot faster.
They're going to build additional plants.
And all of the money that goes into stock buybacks is going to go into building plants.
We're not allowing stock buybacks by defense companies any longer.
They're going to build new plants to make tomahawks, patriots.
We have the best equipment.
F-35s, F-47, the new one just coming out.
They say it's the most devastating plane fighter jet ever.
Who knows?
They called it 47.
If I don't like it, I'm going to take the 47 off it.
I wonder why they called it 47.
What do you think?
Drop the commercial.
We'll give you right now 10-second station ID.
47 off.
But it's supposed to be the stage 6.
It's supposed to be the first stage 6 plane, undetectable, like our B-2 bombers were undetectable.
If you led over Iran, they were undetectable.
They did a good job of adopting war protection and they won't give it.
We've never asked for anything else.
And we could have kept that piece of land, and we didn't.
So they have a choice.
You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative.
Or you can say no, and we will remember.
A strong and secure America means a strong NATO.
And that's one reason why I'm working every day to ensure our military is very powerful, our borders are very strong.
And above all, our economy is strong because national security requires economic security and economic prosperity.
And we have the greatest that we've ever had.
Biden and his allies destroyed our economy and gave us perhaps the worst inflation in American history.
They say 48 years.
I said, I want to take just a second here.
Forever, but I think 48 years is recap what he has done because he's been speaking for about 45 minutes now.
And there is a clear theme.
He came out in the first 20 minutes before we joined him on the podcast.
And he is, his theme was how strong America is economically, energy, everything that is going on and how the globalists have failed and how that was rotting the middle class and how that is in the past.
But he kept coming back to here's our strength.
Here's our strength.
Here's what's coming.
Here's the power plants that we're building.
Here's how we're working with some of the people in this very room who didn't believe me when I said you can build your own power plant and you're going to have permission within two weeks.
He said we didn't have the grid to be able to sustain.
We didn't have the energy.
So he spent the first part talking about our economic growth.
He talked about a GDP growth of 5.6%.
That's way beyond what the IMF said that we would be growing at.
Europe's Rush to Break the Grid00:15:27
And I heard a speech before the president.
You know, the EU, the European Union, was very excited to talk about their, I think, 1.6% GDP growth.
That costs $10.
So it's remarkable in comparison to the rest of the world.
But then he said, I believe most of this stuff is ad-lib in New York.
Because he said right before we went on the air.
Friends of mine would say, you know, we go to Army.
He said, I think I'd get bad reviews if I didn't talk about Greenland.
And he said, you want me to talk about Greenland?
He said, because I think I need to address that here.
I wasn't going to, but let's talk about Greenland.
And he has spent now the last half an hour one way or another speaking about Greenland.
And there are a few remarkable things that he has said.
He has said, I love Europe.
There are parts of Europe you can't even recognize anymore.
And I said immediately.
That has to stop.
The leaders either don't understand or you do understand and you won't do anything about it.
He said, that's why we are changing because this system doesn't work.
He then said, he then talked about Venezuela and how strong America was in Venezuela and what had just happened.
And he said, you know, with Venezuela, I told them to make a deal.
Oh, they were willing to make a deal after the attack.
And then he said something really interesting.
Let's make a deal.
They didn't until after the attack.
Gee, more people should do that.
Which I thought was really interesting.
It was around this time in his speech.
He was getting some laughs from leaders when he would make jokes or say things like that.
Kind of an uncomfortable laugh from time to time.
There has been no laugh line here.
He has said things that he means as a joke a couple of times, but you've noticed there hasn't been any laugh, not a single laugh line.
The world leaders are listening to him.
I think this is the most consequential speech I have heard a president give since possibly the Berlin Wall speech or the evil empire speech given by Ronald Reagan.
But this is much, much deeper.
He is breaking up the United Nations.
He is breaking up the bureaucracy of the WEF.
He is putting Europe on notice.
He then has been going in here this during the Greenland part in the last 20, 30 minutes.
He keeps coming back to how powerful the United States is.
He broke some news.
Let me see if I can find it.
He broke, I think, some news where he said Trump rolls out using military force.
Yeah, a couple of things.
One, as he's listing the list of military accomplishments, he talked about how we have things that nobody understood, that we are now looking at these dangerous weapons.
This was it.
We have dangerous weapons, more dangerous than people recognize.
In Venezuela, they pressed the trigger and nothing happened and couldn't figure out what any of that meant.
Then the other breaking news, as Ricky just reminded me, was we're not going to attack.
I don't want to attack and I won't attack.
But again, his last words on that right after that was, you can say yes to giving us Greenland.
You can come to the table, we'll make a deal, or you can say no, but we will remember.
This is the strongest language I have ever seen a president of the United States give because he's putting the entire world on notice.
The world is changing.
You don't have the cojones or the power to be able to deal with us in any other way.
Come to the table now.
Makes me uncomfortable, but I'm glad the president is standing.
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I got to tell you, I think today is very consequential.
I don't know how it's all going to work out.
I hope that it works out in our favor, but I've never heard a president speak to the world like this.
And he means it.
And he knows he is carrying a very, very large stick.
He knows it.
And, you know, there are parts of the speech that he was the typical Donald Trump, you know, and I'm the greatest.
And you all know it, which always makes me a little uncomfortable.
I wish he were a little more humble, but that's Donald Trump.
But he did say over and over and over again, probably six times, how much he loved and respected Europe, how he is, his family is from Germany and Scotland, and how important they are, and how much he, you know, the history between us and how much Western culture means.
However, Western culture is dying in Europe because you refuse to stand up for it.
When he got into Greenland, he really started to, you know, he started really, you know, he said, Europe has turned their backs on things that have made us strong.
He took on Canada in a way I have never heard before.
He talked about how, you know, Greenland is important because we're going to use it to defend not just the United States, but also Canada and Europe.
And he said, you know, the Canadian prime minister spoke yesterday and I didn't think he did very well.
And then he said he's probably in here.
Mark, I wouldn't speak that way again or something like that.
And it was shocking the way he didn't, he didn't even show him the deference of being prime minister.
It was, Mark, you should watch your words.
He is not fooling around and he is declaring an end to this new world order, this globalist kind of thing that the world has been building.
He did, like I said a minute ago, he said, I will not use force on Greenland.
I don't want to use it and I won't use force, which I think is significant.
So let's start with Greenland.
Jason, I just heard you talking on the Insider broadcast.
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But if you go to Glennbeck.com, you get The Insider.
When the radio show goes into commercial breaks, Jason joins us from behind the scenes, and he's giving more information on what we're talking about and deeper analysis.
And we work together a couple of hours before the show, so we are in sync.
And he gives all the information I just don't have time to give.
But you gave a great stat a minute ago about how Greenland pledged during the Trump first term.
He went to Europe and said, NATO allies, you need to pony up for your own defense.
We are paying for all of it and we're done paying for all of it.
And he went to Greenland and he said, it's time for you to step to the plate.
And they pledged to pay, which is a lot for Greenland, $200 million in their own defense.
And so he accepted that.
Jason, tell me what happened as soon as Trump left office.
How much did they pay of that $200 million?
Hey, Glenn.
So, yeah, this was a big part of their negotiations with at that time.
They were trying to get NATO to allocate more money, everyone.
And it was largely being successful, what Trump was trying to do.
But Denmark, they allocated $224 million.
They said, we agree with you.
We're going to be expanding airspace surveillance.
That's great.
Reconnaissance, awesome.
Arctic defense measures.
I mean, it sounded really, really good.
Well, what they ended up doing after Trump left office was they only allocated 1% of that entire $224 million.
And most of that money that they set aside for defense went to social programs.
That's been their biggest Achilles Hill.
Every time they always go off and they, you know, they fund the welfare state every single time.
That's what they did.
They do not treat security seriously.
So what Trump is doing right now, and it's all across the board on a lot of these measures, is I think the best way I can describe this is tough love.
We're seeing a eulogy and a funeral right now at the WEF, which actually is amazing to see.
But you have, and Trump just said, you know, Daddy Trump, he's providing the tough love.
This is after the son lost his basketball game.
And instead of the dad saying, you'll get him next time, you'll be fine.
No, he's saying, get your butt into the gym, work out, and practice your jump shot.
That's what he's saying.
Ricky and Stu, I'd like you to join in.
Most significant takeaways that you heard from the president's speech today.
I liked his rebuke of Kearney.
And for those viewers and listeners who don't have context, we do have two cuts from yesterday so they understand why Trump was so heated about Prime Minister Carney from Canada.
Let's play those two cuts.
Here's what Carney said yesterday in his speech to the WEF.
We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation.
It calls for honesty about the world as it is.
We are taking the sign out of the window.
We know the old order is not coming back.
We shouldn't mourn it.
Nostalgia is not a strategy.
But we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.
This is the task of the middle powers.
The countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and most to gain from genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power.
We have something to the capacity.
I want you to listen.
I want you to hear what he just said.
He just said, the old order is not coming back.
That is 100% accurate.
Now, what order is he talking about?
The order of Brettonwoods, the order of the petrodollar, the order that the United States set up back in 1945.
It's over.
It doesn't work.
Trump, he is saying exactly the same thing that Trump is saying.
However, Kearney is saying we need to, that's why we need to band together and have a new world order, this great reset kind of order.
We'll have a new world order where the elites all get together from all over the world and they make the decisions.
Trump, the beginning of his speech, he was talking and addressing that very thing.
That hasn't worked.
More bureaucracy will not fix it.
More globalization, more melding of our countries together will not fix this.
That is not the way to go.
That is more of what was built in 1945 that is not working.
It's time to end all of that.
Here's cut two from Carney.
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order.
We joined its institutions.
We praised its principles.
We benefited from its predictability.
And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.
We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false.
That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.
That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically.
And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.
Can we stop here for pause just for a second?
That is amazing that he is saying that because he is describing exactly the order that they are trying to impose on people.
That if you're an elite, you get away with it.
But if you're a little guy or you're on the wrong side, you don't get away with it.
You pay a very heavy penalty.
He's saying that he's implying here that the United States was the one that won every single time and little countries like Canada did not win.
I would suggest, Mr. Prime Minister, you won a bucket load.
You won a bucket load.
Canada, and I don't want, I do not want a Canada bash.
I love Canada.
I love Canadians.
I don't want to have a problem with Canadians.
But let's please just admit the truth.
The United States has foot the bill for your security.
You have all benefited from the United States being as strong as it was.
Meanwhile, every one of you hollowed us out.
We allowed you to do it, but we got into the World Trade Organization.
The Only Threat to U.S. Power00:05:46
We did all these things and said, you know what?
We're going to spread the wealth some.
And you all benefited from that.
Most importantly, you benefited from the shield of the United States military.
You want to know what the world is like without the United States?
I think Donald Trump should say no more protection for anyone but the United States.
And the American people would cheer.
We're not footing the bill for a single war, not a single tank, not a single airplane, nothing.
You get nothing from the United States in defense.
That is almost exactly what he said in a shorter form.
What he said.
His quote was, Canada lives because of the U.S. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
That's really direct and clear.
And have you ever heard, Stu, have you ever heard a president of the United States speak like that?
No, but, you know, how common is this, Glenn?
I've been doing this for a long time.
How common is it when we cover another nation who has received all sorts of bounty and gifts and protection and favors and all sorts of things from the United States, come up and do their speech in front of the UN, in front of Davos, whatever it is, and bash us over and over and over and over again.
It feels good to have a president that stands up and says, no, you're not doing that anymore if you want anything from us.
Good.
And they really should be a little more careful with the way that they treat us.
You could argue with some of the stuff that Trump does and whether he should be treating allies in certain ways.
All those conversations can be valid at times, but like we never hold these people to those standards.
They're constantly trashing us.
They're constantly telling us we're involved in genocides around the world.
I'm sick of it.
I'm done with it.
Glenn, do you think that Carney has found this newfound confidence and boldness and bravado because of this strategic alliance he's trying to build with China?
No, I think he believes in the new world order.
He believes in the power of the banking community.
He believes in the WEF.
He also believes that China is a great ally for China, at least to threaten with.
But China will eat you.
Canada, China will eat you.
Good luck with that.
The only thing that I have seen that would make sense, and I hesitate to even say it, but no world leader is listening to me.
But the only thing that you could actually threaten the United States with and make a difference is if Europe started to say, we're going to sell all of our U.S. treasuries.
We don't believe in U.S. treasuries.
You start selling our treasuries.
That's the only power you have to hold over our head.
And Denmark just said they were going to start doing that.
We don't believe in U.S. treasuries anymore.
We're thinking about liquidating all of our treasuries.
Now, whether they do or not is another thing, because that will only hurt your own people.
It's the only investment you can make.
What are you going to invest in?
Where are you going to put your money?
You're going to put it in the United States and the United States stock market?
Or are you going to pull it all out and put it someplace else?
You're not going to do that.
I mean, you will only hurt your own people.
But that is the only threat that could possibly come up against the United States.
So I think Carney is wildly mistaken.
You know, you've got to remember how Donald Trump negotiates.
Donald Trump negotiates.
He first says it nicely.
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I'd like to do this.
What do you think about this?
How can we make a deal for both of us here that's good on this?
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Well, you don't do that.
I'm going to do this.
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He never makes threats.
He makes promises.
I am going to do this if you don't do that.
Venezuela, Maduro, leave, or we'll come and get you.
Iran, knock it off, or we will put your power plants, your nuclear power plants out of business and knock you back into the Stone Age in that department.
He says what he means and means what he says, and he starts making promises, not threats.
So when President Trump is all he's asking for here, and you may not like the way he's asking for it, but it's high time that somebody in America has stood up for us in America when he says,
look, we are only asking for something that is good for your security, good for my security, you know, the United States' security, you and Canada's security.
We have not asked you for anything since 1945.
And you guys have been living off of us and living on our teeth since 1945.
All of these things the United States agreed to and developed and made the world stable so you could rebuild Europe.
Will you rebuild Europe, you know, 20 years after the war?
And you've been sucking us dry ever since.
We're asking for one thing.
Give it to us or we will remember.
It is the toughest love I have ever seen.
But I would put my money on Donald Trump.
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Today is Davos Day and a lot of breaking news today, especially with the president, but also some breaking news coming up with the head of NASA, who is going to be joining me here in just a minute.
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Not a lot is known about it.
We're going to talk to the head of NASA about that here in just a second.
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Okay, we're going to do that in a second, but it's Davos Day.
I want to quickly recap what the president said just in a couple of sentences.
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Let me start here.
The president just spoke.
He made some really big news.
He is still on stage.
He's fielding questions now, and some of them are about Greenland.
Most of them are about Greenland and war.
He just said that he felt that the world was in a very precarious situation because of all the miscalculations that were done by the previous administration.
He said, honestly, I think if Kamala Harris would have been elected, we might be in World War III right now.
He said, but it is our duty to avoid war at all costs.
We don't want war.
He's been talking about ending war a lot today.
But he also is talking about negotiating now for Greenland.
And he's being very, very tough on it.
But he made the announcement today, I will not use force to take Greenland.
But he was also very clear.
You have the opportunity, Europe, to say, yes, we're going to work with America.
Or you have the choice to say, no, we won't.
And if that's your choice, we will remember.
Really, really strong language, but he is couching it all as national and international security imperatives.
So this is all happening up in this little Swiss town in the Swiss Alps called Davos.
And, you know, this was a place that if you had tuberculosis years ago, you would go to because it was really clean air up in the mountains.
And so, you know, it would clean out your lungs and your soul.
And it was cold and inconvenient and it was neutral on almost all things.
And that mattered.
In 1971, an economics professor named Klaus Schwab decided, you know, I'm going to invite some people up to Davos for a meeting.
And it wasn't a summit.
It wasn't a conclave at the time.
It was just a meeting of minds that he respected.
He believed in something radical at the time, that corporations had obligations not just to shareholders, but to society.
And he came up with something called stakeholder capitalism.
It completely reversed the idea of capitalism and how it worked.
And so he invited European business leaders to come up and talk.
No heads of state, no grand ideology at this point, just managers comparing notes on how to survive changing worlds.
Now, this is in 1971.
What happens in 1971?
The world goes to hell in a handbasket.
All of a sudden, we have the energy crisis.
We get off the gold standard.
Everything changes.
Oil shocks, inflation.
And it's a slow collapse of the post-World War II world order.
And so all of a sudden, he thinks, oh, you know, we're even more important because governments don't understand the markets and markets don't trust government.
So he thought, you know what?
I think we start bringing everybody together and we can really change the world.
Now, I'm saying this as a story form, but I want you to know I'm not neutral on this.
I think Klaus Schwab is absolute born and bred evil.
I think what he believes is evil.
I believe what he created was evil.
I believe what's happening in Davos is evil.
But I'm just telling you the story of how it happened.
So by the 1980s, Schwab starts to invite all of these politicians, not to speak to any voter, but to speak off the record.
And then the bankers came and then the central planners came and then the media figures came and they offered something really unique.
No elections, no parliaments, no transcripts, and no voters.
By 1987, they rename it the World Economic Forum.
The use of the word world at that time, World Economic Forum, was not aspirational.
It was declarative.
This is now the World Economic Forum.
And the turning point came as soon as the Berlin Wall fell.
1989, Berlin Wall falls.
1991, Soviet Union collapses, and suddenly the world is up for redesign.
We, the useless, stupid slugs of the world like me, we thought we won.
Capitalism won.
No.
The planners and the central planners that were meeting up in Davos, they saw this and they thought, ha ha, we can change the world and move into a completely new system.
And global trade works were framed out in Davos before you ever heard about, years before you ever heard about them.
It was Davos that Greece and Turkey avoided war in 1988 through back channel talks.
It was Davos that South Africa's apartheid era leaders engaged future leaders.
And they were real successes.
And everybody was like, wow, that's great.
But that success taught the world a very dangerous lesson.
Decisions are a lot easier to make when voters are nowhere near the room.
So by the 1990s, Davos is starting to become what it is.
It's no longer a conference.
It's a shadow anti-chamber of governments.
And they're starting to groom new government leaders.
Davos stopped explaining and started deciding in the early 2000s.
Davos had a predictable cast.
They had the heads of states, the central bankers, the tech CEOs, the NGO leaders, the intelligent-linked advisors, the media executives.
They had them all coming in.
And they all arrived by private jet, first to talk about climate policy, which is just hysterical.
Then financial regulation, pandemic preparedness, just two years before the pandemic, digital identity, and energy rationing.
And everything was, how do we move from the capitalist American style governance, where it was a sovereign state, into a new world order, a global system where you, the voter, really aren't participating.
And the conversation begins to change in the early 2000s on not should we, but how do we?
How do we implement this?
How do we get this done?
Not what do the voters want, but how do we manage the public acceptance?
How do we make sure they just go along with this?
And that's when critics began to notice something very, very chilling.
The policies that were announced as national decisions were first panel discussions in Davos.
Same phrases, same frameworks, same talking points.
For instance, I'm trying to remember the Build Back Better was used by seven different prime ministers and presidents in their election in 2020.
I mean, that all came from panel discussions.
That was not homegrown.
That was a globalist panel discussion.
Okay.
So we're sitting here now looking at what it is today.
There are 3,000 people in attendance today.
There are 130 countries represented.
There are 400 leaders, presidents, prime ministers, kings, ministers, regulators.
They represent 40% of the Earth's population.
The 3,000 people that were listening to Donald Trump today in that room represent 40% of the global population.
65 heads of state and 850 top CEOs.
So you know, it's not cheap to get in to the WEF.
It is $75,000 to get in.
This is the posted cost.
They say it's an average of about $45,000.
But the posted cost is $75,000.
And if you want a real seat at the table, the price is $758,000.
So you just put in three quarters of a million dollars and you can sit somewhere near to these leaders.
And here's what it has become.
Let me give you the pipeline here of Davos because this is why Davos matters.
You know, everybody makes fun of Davos if they know what it is.
And they're like, oh, it's conspiracy.
Well, it's not a conspiracy.
It's all right there right in front of you.
Okay.
So let me tell you what the pipeline is.
The pipeline starts with everybody gathering, getting off their plane, gathering at these meetings in Davos, where they discuss everything and they're like a little hive mind.
And then they share that with the think tanks and the NGOs.
That then also is shared with the government agencies all around the world.
They don't pass the laws.
They've already made the agreement globally.
So now all they have to do is get it from the agencies and the NGOs to the regulators.
And then the regulators write all of the regulations.
And then it's your life.
You didn't even know this was coming.
You had no idea.
You didn't have a vote in it.
You had nothing.
It started in Davos, think tanks, NGOs, agencies, regulations right to your life.
And now they control your life, okay, through the agency rules.
Tell me, who'd you vote for that's running the EPA?
Who did you vote for that is running the labor department?
Who did you vote?
When you have a problem with the, I don't even know, with the IRS, who do you know that you can vote out to make sure that that changes?
You know, that's right there with the IRS that are operating on regulations that the agency itself wrote.
How do you change those?
You don't.
You don't.
So you now have the higher energy costs.
That all comes from Davos because they were the ones who said these higher energy costs have to do it because of global commitments.
We have to stop using energy and go into green energy.
The banking rules that are all written by ESG scores, which involve DEI, all of that stuff came from Davos.
If you're a small business, you're buried under compliance.
That also comes from Davos.
Any speech that is labeled misinformation and you don't get a chance to fight it, that also comes from Davos.
Your higher energy costs, your higher food cost, your higher housing costs, you're told that it's necessary.
Why?
Because of the regulations and all of the things they planned in Davos.
And when you object, they say, sorry, it's global.
I mean, you can't do anything about it.
But there is something you can do about it.
And it's called consent.
Consent from the people.
When elected officials attend private forums like they do in Davos that are funded by you, funded. by you to coordinate policies globally before you have ever even heard of them.
That's not leadership.
That's management.
And that is exactly what Donald Trump is now taking apart in his speech.
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He was very, very clear.
The world of management, instead of listening to the voters, instead of responding to your own people in your own country, you're responding to this room of clowns and you're making the decisions.
You're managing people.
But managed societies don't remain free, at least not for long.
That's what Davos is.
That's why this makes, why it is so very important that you pay attention and why, I mean, I just watched the president's speech.
I think it is the most powerful speech, most important and impactful international speech given by a president, at least since Ronald Reagan said the evil empire speech and Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
He changed the world order today.
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Ricky, we were just talking off air just a few minutes ago, Ricky, and I forgot there was something that we wanted to play.
Yes, I wanted to lower the IQ level of this commentary and remind everyone that the emperor has no clothes when we're talking about Macron yesterday at Davos.
That's cut three.
But what we need is more Chinese foreign diet investment in Europe in some key sectors to contribute to our growth, to transfer some technologies, and not just to expand.
If you're not watching, if you're just listening, you may not think anything is funny other than he's a Frenchman.
He's wearing like aviator dark sunglasses on stage.
The only other person I've ever seen do that is Joe Biden.
But we expected Joe Biden.
You know, I don't know if there were any actual eyes behind those glasses with Joe Biden.
Why is Macron wearing sunglasses when he's giving this speech?
And nobody says anything.
Nobody says it.
It's so weird when you're looking at it.
It is so weird.
And no one says a word, a word.
And that's because he's taking on Donald Trump.
He's saying all of the things that, you know, all the elites are thinking and just don't have the balls to say.
He does.
Okay.
Donald Trump, you want to talk a little bit about what Donald Trump noticed that the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes, and he called that out today at Davos.
I believe we have that clip.
So when I called up Emmanuel McCrone, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses.
What the hell happened to you?
Oh, nobody.
You know what?
Nobody causes me to laugh harder as a politician with Donald Trump, and most people just don't get it.
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And then for some reason or another, that was rescinded and they went a different direction.
And I had him on a podcast, I don't even know, a few months back.
And he's just fascinating.
And I'm talking to him like, you've got to be the head of the NASA, of NASA.
And lo and behold, Trump decides we're going to re-nominate you.
And so he is now the head of NASA.
And if you have never seen a NASA launch, I was there for one of the last, or if not the last, space shuttle launch.
And I brought my kids.
They were too young to remember now.
But it is a wonder of the world.
And Artemis 2 is going up here in about a month, I think.
And I mean, I've got to tell you, I will be one of those, even if I have to pull off to the side of the highway, I am going to watch this because we are going back to the moon.
This will be the first time that we have gone and sent people to circle the moon one last time before we actually land on the moon again.
But Jared is with us now.
Hello, Jared.
How are you?
Hello, sir.
Thanks for having me back.
You bet.
It's great to talk to you.
Congratulations, first of all, on your appointment.
And I'm expecting huge things from you because you are, I mean, finally, an entrepreneur in charge of NASA.
Can we start with what happened with Crew 11, the space station?
For the first time in history of 25 years of the space program and of our labs up in space, we had to bring the astronauts or the crew back because of a health-related issue.
Can you tell us what happened and is the astronaut okay?
Sure.
I do want to just start by saying, since I heard your intro, you don't have to camp out on the side of the road for the Artemis II launch.
I'll certainly make sure we've got a seat reserved for you, especially since I know how much of a fan you are of America's space program and all of the great history you collect at your studio that I was lucky enough to see when I visited.
So you can guarantee we'll have a spot for you.
And what an exciting mission, right?
I'm sure we'll talk about it.
But as far as Crew 11, one of the greatest accomplishments that we've done at the International Space Station is the continuous human presence in space over a quarter of a century, right?
And that we're keeping our astronauts alive in an environment that is incredibly harsh on their body.
Microgravity does a lot of things to you from your vestibular system, cardiovascular system, bone density loss.
It's a radiation environment, right?
But we're there to learn.
And we expect that there will be circumstances that will appear.
This is why we do extensive training.
Our astronauts are practically physicians.
In fact, many of them are.
We put them through extensive medical training.
We put medical kits in all our spaceships.
The International Space Station itself is like almost an urgent care center because they use a lot of those tools for science and research.
And then we drill.
We train for the day that there is going to be an unexpected health-related incident, and it happened.
And everyone did an extraordinary job.
The crew 11 astronauts, their other expedition mates on the International Space Stations, the flight surgeons in mission control, they all responded accordingly.
The incident was stabilized very quickly.
Can you tell us what we evaluated?
Unfortunately, due to the medical privacy rules, I can't tell you exactly what it was other than clearly it was a very serious situation.
Something we had not seen before in space, but had accounted for the possibility.
And that is why we put in motion the option to bring our astronauts home early, which I think really speaks to American leadership in space.
We can send our astronauts up more or less on command, which is what we're going to do with Crew-12, is pull their mission forward, and we can bring our astronauts home as required.
And this is very important to President Trump and obviously his position on American supremacy in space.
That's bizarre, Jared, because it was not like that under Biden.
I mean, how long did we wait to pull those astronauts back last time?
And you pulled this off quickly.
And when does Crew-12 go up?
When are you going to launch them up?
Well, we're evaluating that timeline now because we're also preparing for the Artemis II mission, which is the one you mentioned in your opening comments, where we're going to send our astronauts farther into space than we've ever sent humans before, past the moon, back around the moon, and safely back to Earth.
So there's some overlap in timelines now.
So we're evaluating both, which is a great problem to have, by the way.
I love the idea that we are trying to deconflict multiple historic spaceflight missions.
But I do want to just give a compliment again.
The Crew 11 made it easy for us to bring them home early.
They had completed all their mission objectives almost ahead of schedule.
They were due to come home in a matter of weeks anyway.
They made it easy on us to bring them home early.
And then to your point, we're preparing Crew 12 ahead of schedule, and we're preparing our Artemis II mission.
Okay.
Now, Artemis II, can you explain for people who don't know what this is?
What is Artemis II?
How big is the rocket?
Why are we going around the moon?
Why is this the first time we've done this since the 1970s?
Why are we going to the moon again?
Okay.
So these are all great questions.
So first, there is a big difference between the missions that we've all been watching take place over the last call it five years.
You see a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon send four astronauts to the International Space Station almost every six months.
They do it so often that it looks easy and it looks routine.
It's still extremely hard.
You're taking a Falcon 9 rocket, about 1.8 million pounds of thrust in a controlled explosion and accelerating those four astronauts to 17,500 miles an hour, and you're sending them to the International Space Station.
That's hard.
You want to know what's harder is 8.8 million pounds of thrust accelerating four astronauts to nearly 25,000 miles per hour because now you have to get to near Earth escape velocity, right?
Which is what's essential if you're going to send astronauts to the moon or past the moon where you need to exceed Earth escape velocity to do missions in the future to Mars.
So that's what we're talking about coming up with Artemis II.
This is a whole nother caliber of rocket.
It's going to have two solid rocket boosters, throwback from the shuttle era.
Even the center core looks like the shuttle main fuel tank.
It's got shuttle main engines on it.
It's liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and it is going to accelerate those brave crew, Artemis II astronauts farther into space than we ever sent anyone before.
Artemis II: Building a Lunar Economy00:06:32
And this is step one on a journey to put astronauts back on the moon.
Is this bigger or around the same size as the shuttle?
So this will be the most powerful rocket that humans have ever traveled on.
So it is more powerful. than the shuttle.
It is going to be able to accelerate.
It is more powerful than the Saturn V. Wow.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
I mean, for anybody, I hate to be, but I was a kid in the 60s and 70s.
And I got to tell you, this makes me feel like a kid.
It is a wonder of the world.
If you've never seen this, you will not believe your eyes.
It is a wonder that you just can't imagine, man, is able to do it.
It's remarkable.
So why are we extraordinary?
And it's step one.
I can't emphasize that enough.
You know, President Trump, with his national space policy, he created the Artemis program during his first term.
And he said, we're not just going back to the moon to plant the flag and pick up rocks.
He wants an enduring presence.
He wants America to return to the moon and have the ability to stay.
So this might be Artemis II coming up, but our children someday are going to watch Artemis 100.
I mean, this mission sets up a series of launches to and from the moon, the construction of a lunar base, so we can realize the scientific and economic value of being on the lunar surface.
So this is a major commitment by the president.
It's very exciting.
What are the, I mean, as an entrepreneur, you know, we run out of money at some point if we just keep thinking we can print money.
How does this affect us economically?
Why is this important to do this?
How do we get a payoff on this other than, look at us, we're on the moon?
It's such a great question.
So in part, we are fulfilling a promise to the American people.
For 35 years, presidents have called for a return to the moon.
We've spent over $100 billion to do it.
It wasn't until President Trump in his first term where he really committed us on that path by creating the Artemis program.
Again, in his second term, recommitting us and establishing the lunar base.
So we're delivering on a promise here.
It's a promise to the American people and the pioneers from the 1960s who built the foundation that we stand upon today.
Second, we don't know what we're going to find out there that could change things here on Earth.
You know, on the lunar surface, you could be mining helium-3, which has the potential to change things in energy.
It's going to be a more efficient source of fusion power someday in the future.
It has applications in quantum computing.
Do we want to come in second place on that?
Because certainly the Chinese are setting out to do this.
The Russians want to do this someday.
So we have an obligation for American leadership in the high ground of space.
The next stop is the moon, which is what our course is on today.
But the president even, through his national space policy, committed us to the investments in nuclear power and propulsion to someday achieve American astronauts on Mars.
So to your second point on is this expensive, it is.
But what's different today than it was in the 1960s is it's not all on taxpayers' shoulders.
I mean, in the 1960s, we went to the moon with NASA's budget at 4.5% of the discretionary budget.
Right now, it's about a quarter of a percentage of that.
Who's making up the difference?
You've got some fantastic entrepreneurs across commercial space industry, Elon Musk at SpaceX, Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin, dozens of other companies putting their resources on the line here for a capability for the benefit of the American people and really the world.
The significance of the United States having a moon base and being the first to have a moon base.
What does that mean strategically?
I mean, we've been talking about Greenland this week and everything else.
I know that Space Force was used for the first time with Venezuela, or at least officially used, in a mission like what we saw in Venezuela.
What is the significance strategically of a moon base?
Well, really, it's about what you're trying to accomplish on the lunar surface and what you can learn, right?
So if you have an orbiting base above the moon, which we have in our plans called Gateway, that has potentially some benefit from a logistics perspective, but you're not interacting with the regolith.
You're not constructing infrastructure.
You're not mining.
You're not doing in-situ resource manufacturing, which is essential to the future of Mars mission.
You're not able to develop a lunar economy above the moon, but you can develop a lunar economy on the moon.
So it's vitally important.
Certainly that the president of the United States, President Trump appreciates the strategic significance of certain real estate out there.
No one is better at this than the President of the United States and some of the most important real estate that's within our reach where we can, again, begin to realize scientific and economic value.
It's on the lunar surface.
Amazing.
It is always great to talk to you, Jared.
I'm so happy that you are the guy running NASA.
I mean, you were born for this moment, and it's thrilled to know you.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
I'm grateful for the opportunity.
Thank you.
You bet.
You bet.
You know, I just want to leave you with this.
You know, Artemis, do you know what Artemis is?
It's Greek.
It's ancient Greek.
And it is the ancient goddess of the moon, the hunt, protection and precision, and independence and resolve.
It is the twin sister of Apollo, as in the Apollo program.
It is the Apollo program was to prove that it could be done, that man could go to the moon.
Artemis is meant to prove we belong there, we can live there, and we can build there.
This is historic.
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I'm sorry I got choked up.
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He talked about the lunar economy.
I don't know how many people, Ricky, do you even know what lunar economy is?
I wanted you to ask, but we didn't have time.
Can you tell me what he means?
Yeah, so the lunar economy, think Star Trek.
In the long run, think Star Trek.
The lunar economy, think transportation services to and from other planets, fuel depots, construction modules, habitation on the moon, mapping, surveying rights, data, security, military, all of this stuff is going on, including because the moon has constant solar power,
Lunar Economy and Star Trek00:03:16
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So you have constant power plus helium-3, all of this stuff that is sitting there on the moon.
But it is, when he says the moon economy, what he basically is talking about is all of the trillions of dollars that will be sitting up there through private industry to get us to move to other planets now.
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She's brilliant.
And I've been following her, and she has explained the case for Greenland better than anybody I have heard.
And I wanted to get her on so, because I don't think the president's doing a very good job.
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How are you?
Hi, Glenn.
That was a very kind introduction that you gave me.
Well, very true.
Very, very true introduction.
You just did a series of tweets.
I saw it, I think it was over the weekend, where you were explaining the case for Greenland.
I wish the president would read it and follow it because it makes total sense.
Can you take us through this case?
Absolutely.
So let me just preface this by saying, you know, I'm born in Singapore and I immigrated to the U.S. where I lived until only very recently where I moved to London.
I bring this up to actually demonstrate that I'm quite emotionally detached from any nationalistic sentiment and unburdened by alliance ties.
Because what I found talking about Greenland online on X is something very curious.
We always see the Europeans as very sophisticated.
They view jingoistic nationalism as something barbaric and backwards.
And so it's very curious because all of a sudden with President Trump's comments on Greenland, it's kind of triggered this nationalistic pride that I thought was dormant.
Because that's the lesson the Europeans took wrongly, in my opinion, from World War II.
And that's why they always berate the one leader who emphasizes nationalism and sovereignty in Europe, and that's Victor Orban.
So yeah, let's get into the case for Greenland.
I mean, first, it's just geography.
You know, Donald Trump didn't just look at the map, saw some white space and say, I want that.
He didn't wake up one day and say that.
And it wasn't even his original idea.
The U.S. has on so many occasions tried to acquire Greenland, beginning with William Seward in 1867.
He, of course, is the one that successfully negotiated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians.
And at the time, back then, it was called Seward's Folly, right?
And now it's 160 years later, and we cannot imagine anything other than Alaska being American.
So all this to say is that this noise, maybe in one generation, will be completely over.
If you look at a map and ask a seven-year-old to name all the continents in the world and then ask, where does Greenland belong?
It is so patently obvious.
If you just actually stare at a map, the kid would say it belongs to North America because it sits squarely on the North American tectonic plate.
So geologically, it's actually just part of North America, but for historical reasons, has political ties to Europe, and it is currently being administrated by the Kingdom of Denmark.
The first and foremost thing is about national security.
I think this is the main lens in which President Trump is looking at Greenland.
Securing Greenland is important because it's about corridor control.
So there's two ways to look at this.
The first is there's this thing called the Greenland-Icelandic UK gap, and it's a small little corridor, which is a naval choke point.
And it is the only way for Russian naval forces and nuclear submarines to reach the Atlantic from its Arctic bases.
And as the Arctic ice starts to melt, more and more sea lanes in the Arctic is going to become navigable for a longer time.
And this also opens up the corridor to Asia, right?
China self-identifies as a near-Arctic state, and it's been pursuing ambitions to become a polar great power.
They released a white paper in 2018 actually detailing its ambitions to build a polar silk road.
Misnomer, of course, because it's actually not a road, it's a sea route.
because they want to make sure that they have a way to access Europe.
So right now, the only way to get from China to Europe is through the Suez Canal.
And the Suez is controlled by Egypt, which is a US ally.
And it takes about 40 days to make that journey.
But opening up the sea route for China will cut that almost into half.
And so they want to have more navigable sea routes to get access to Europe.
And then the other map that showed this very clearly was released by the Wall Street Journal just a few days ago, is if you just actually look at the globe from the top view, so not the way that we are used to seeing it.
And we will see that the short, it is beautiful.
You know, we will see that the shortest path for intercontinental missiles would run over Greenland.
This is the shortest route.
And anyone who's taken a plane to fly from New York City to, say, Tokyo will always see the plane flying through the Arctic route, even if you're flying to Europe, because that is the shortest path.
And so right now, Greenland is where all our missile detection, early warning systems for any potential Russian missile launch.
And the Russians have been stockpiling on hypersonic missiles, right?
These are weapons that can travel at speeds that exceed Mach 5.
And they have very unpredictable paths because that's one of the things that differentiates them from conventional ballistic missiles, which follow more predictable arcs.
And so an early warning system is currently only designed for these slower ballistics.
So we actually need to upgrade them.
And this is where Greenland is very crucial.
These intercontinental ballistic missiles also could be launched from China to target to the United States.
I mean, that's a bit more far-fetched, but it's possible that the technology exists.
And they too would have to traverse the Arctic region and pass over or near Greenland.
So why is it that he is so insistent that we own it?
Well, it's for a few reasons.
Danes and a lot of people who are, these people have been pushing back on all over X and very bubbled by the jingoism would say, why do you need to own it?
The 1951 treaty already allows the United States to do whatever it wants.
And it's true, there is currently a space base on Greenland at the southern point of it.
But any potential weapons upgrades or expansion of the footprint actually does require a very vague, opaque kind of approval process.
You need the Danes involved.
You need to consult the Greenlandians.
And I mean, European bureaucracy is legendary, right?
So imagine trying to run a military operation, something like Operation Absolute Resolve, which took down Maduro.
Imagine having to operate something like that in a very high-tension conflict environment.
Do we really want to consult Danish working groups and NATO steering committees about whether we can act on something?
No.
And also, when the U.S. owns something, they actually have skin in the game.
And they will defend it in a way like it matters because it is U.S. soil.
And so it will be defended very differently if it was actually US territory.
So how do you see this playing out?
Because to me, this is such a clear, even if I am, if I am not, if I don't get wrapped up in either my Trump hatred or my jingoistic phobias, and I just look at this case, it's so very clear to me, the only one that should have Greenland is the United States.
If I care, if I'm European and I care about my own security and I care not, you know, that I'm not overrun by Russia or China, you know, it's got to go to the United States.
It only makes sense to do that.
But how do you see this playing out?
Because they are digging in and they're like, no, not going to do it.
And Donald Trump said today, I won't invade, but I will remember.
You either do this or I will remember and the United States will remember.
You owe this to us after everything we've given to you over the last 100 years.
Yeah, Trump is right.
You know, I think I live in Europe now, so I've actually been quite exposed to the way Europeans think about NATO.
And this is actually the fundamental problem.
Europeans think of NATO as the organization that's meant to defend them from Russia.
North Americans see NATO, and it's in the name, the North American, it's actually the name.
North Americans see NATO as an entity defending North America as well, or the North Atlantic, sorry, which includes America.
The problem is that the European conception of this excludes America.
They think it's just for them.
And that is the fundamental misalignment here.
Europe needs to understand that, firstly, I know there's a lot of hurt feelings, but this is how Trump has negotiated over the years.
It's very predictable.
He always starts with a maximalist, almost outrageous demand.
He even mentioned, I think, Greenland in his inauguration speech.
And then he threatened.
Yeah, he did.
And then he kind of threatens.
And then he, you know, if there's pushback, he escalates.
It's kind of an escalation dominance.
And then finally, when all the chips fall, there will be a deal which may bear little resemblance to the original demand, but it will be hailed as some sort of great victory.
And the Europeans in this case could come back and have some sort of a compact where most rights are actually granted to American companies or it may be administered in the same way that the U.S. has arrangements like this with like free compact associations.
They have agreements with the Marshall Islands and several other places where it's de facto U.S. ownership, but they still get to fly their flag.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So, you know, I'm watching what's happening at the WEF today, and it's remarkable.
I mean, I've never seen a president in my lifetime.
Reagan was pretty bold, but not like Donald Trump.
I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
And I would think if I was European, I would be like, screw you, pal.
And, you know, Canada is talking about going to China now and they're drawing up battle plans in Greenland.
And I mean, insane stuff.
Do you really think that they would say, screw you, America?
We don't need you.
I mean, is that reality at all for anybody in Europe?
No, because Europe has just no leverage.
There are structural asymmetries to the transatlantic relationship.
Europe remains more dependent on the U.S. for defense, energy.
You know, they've tried to pivot after pivoting away from Russia.
Technology, operational security, intelligence.
There's no way that, you know, you see a lot of leaders right now, and I think it's so ridiculous hearing someone like Macrone say, insist on sovereignty and then welcome, and the WEF welcome more Chinese direct investment.
Because Chinese investment is how you actually decrease your sovereignty.
And we've seen that everywhere in the world where the Chinese have infiltrated markets, have infiltrated business relationships, government.
And by the way, to go back to the Greenland issue, the reason why it's actually very important for the U.S. to own Greenland is because if Greenland becomes independent, for example, North American security is too precious.
It's too important to rely on democratic constraints.
I mean, you have all these, like, you see this in the U.S. too, local mayors, state governments that can be very easily infiltrated by the Chinese.
What if they go to a mayor in Greenland and say, oh, you know, we would love the rights to this airport.
Will you sell it to us?
What if the Danish government is run by, say, an Islamist Marxist about 10 years down the road?
And they'd be willing to, you know, basically do China's bidding.
So that is the other reason why it's very important for the United States to actually have control over Greenland.
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So, you know, I saw a post, Melissa, from you about, you know, Starmer and him just approving this mega Chinese embassy, which is just riddled with problems.
The way they are dealing now with Islam, just in the UK itself, let alone Europe.
Donald Trump, I believe, sees Europe as over.
And he kind of said that today.
Unless you change your ways, you're not going to make it.
And we can't count on you.
And we're not counting on you because you're not going to help us.
And he invited them to change their ways and join us, but I don't think they're going to.
Is he right about the UK and Europe being over?
There are many parties that are trying to align the U.S., Europe back closer to the U.S. orbit, right?
And that would be your more center-right or right-wing populist parties in Europe.
They are for stronger borders.
They have been complaining about this mass migration wave.
You know, you have Farage in the UK who, as it stands, if the elections were held tomorrow, he would be the prime minister and his party, you know, would sweep.
So it's not over for Europe, but it's very, very late in the day for Europe.
They have, you know, disarmed, de-industrialized, which I see this as, you know, the terror of luxury beliefs, like how, you know, woke ideas are luxury beliefs because it harms the people, you know, that actually hold them.
And it's the same with this.
It's the same with this.
Europe has been too steeped in luxury beliefs.
And President Trump is trying to encourage Europe to snap out of it, wake up, because that is where Western civilization came from.
Although right now, it's America that is the torchbearer of Western civilization.
Melissa, thank you so much.
Follow Melissa Chen online.
She is fantastic, very super, super smart and a great perspective.
Melissa Chen, thank you very much.
You follow her also at her website, melissachen.org.
Liz Wheeler joins me about Pam Bondi and the DOJ.
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AI as Essential as the Internet00:04:23
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I'm just reading a really great article in Barrett Media right now about how or why AI is forcing radio to adapt faster than ever.
Good.
Radio should adapt.
It should adapt fast.
Radio is the most, it is the most compelling, the strongest, and the most powerful medium out of all of the mediums.
And I've done all of them.
This is the most powerful medium.
The power of the spoken word, especially on radio, one-on-one, live, is completely different than anything else.
But they were talking about how there's pushback, and there should be pushback on, you know, I don't like the idea of a digital host.
You know, if I'm listening to a show, I want to know that person is real.
However, as it says in this article, because it has a large section of how we're innovating earlier this month, Glenn Beck rolled out his own version of AI content.
His initial digital podcast was not off-brand.
Simultaneously, Beck unveiled his historic-based AI, the torch, tied to the new foundation he launched to preserve and teach American history using a vast archive of founding documents.
The inaugural video featured a digital conversation with George Washington.
Beck is one of the first high-profile personalities to use AI to generate complete episodes for his brand, moving beyond digital editing to actually create content for his podcast.
What rubs conventional thinking about Beck's brand is that he frequently warns about AI risks.
Beck has said that technology is a threat to society, values, and perhaps freedom.
He has described AI developments as kind of a quiet detonation that could change how humans live and think.
Yes, Beck's dual stance on AI, critiquing it externally while embracing it internally, creates a clear dichotomy of how he justifies AI-generated content under his media brand.
Well, it's very easy.
I think nuclear weapons are one of the worst things man has ever done.
It is also the one thing that has kept millions of people alive.
It ended World War II without millions of more deaths.
So you can say something is a very great danger.
You have to learn how to use it.
That is the problem.
Most people who go into AI are just going to let it become them.
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You use it as a tool to help you do things you currently cannot do.
But you are in charge of it.
And that is the lesson.
I mean, I'm telling you, if you stay away from AI right now, there may come a time when you have to say, I got to cut it off.
I can't use it because it is, it's too X, Y, or Z.
But now is not that time.
You must learn.
It is as essential as the computer is and the internet is right now.
Imagine not teaching your kids, you know, what www dot means, what a dot-com means, how to, how to navigate and use a computer today.
You're going to be left in the dust.
Now, that doesn't mean that the internet and everything is good.
It means you have to decide how to use it.
Zero Indictments for Pam Bondi00:09:03
All right.
I'm not going to get into that deeper later, but probably have to do it on a podcast.
But Liz Wheeler is joining us now.
She is the host of Liz Wheeler Show on Blaze TV, also the author of Hide Your Children.
And she has been somebody outspoken about Pam Bondi and her effectiveness.
And she's with us now.
Liz?
Glenn, hi.
How are you?
I'm good.
So you, I know, were listening yesterday when I had my jihad on Pam Bondi.
I said I would give her a year.
It's been a year.
And I'm wildly disappointed.
And I just scratched the surface on the things that are not happening.
Am I being too tough or not tough enough?
You know, it's funny because you texted me and said, am I missing anything?
Did I get anything wrong here?
And my response to that is the only thing that you've done wrong in your analysis.
Your episode, by the way, was amazing.
The only thing you got wrong is waiting a year when the writing on the wall was.
And I'm sad to say this.
I am sad to say this.
You know that I believe in giving the benefit of the doubt to people on our side.
Yes.
I believe in being generous with people.
We're all human.
We make mistakes.
You're walking into the deep state.
There's swamp creatures everywhere.
I'm sure we can't imagine what that's like.
It's not as easy as we think to go in there and reform.
However, it's been apparent for many months now that we've seen zero accountability, zero justice for all of the wrongdoings that weren't just inflicted on Trump.
They were inflicted on us, Glenn.
I mean, COVID, we've seen zero indictments for that.
Russia collusion, zero indictments.
Ukraine impeachment, zero indictments.
FBI agents who targeted parents over critical race theory.
FBI agents targeting Project Veritas journalists because they had the audacity to investigate Ashley Biden's diary, which, by the way, turned out to be real.
FBI agents labeling Catholics as extremists, zero indictments.
Government officials, we have the names of these people, Glenn, who colluded with big tech platforms to censor us.
We talked about the COVID vaccine, January 6th, the transgender ideology.
All of that was revealed in the Twitter files.
Zero indictments for the Mar-a-Lago raid, for Fonnie Willis's law fair, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg.
Nothing.
We've seen nothing.
No indictments for the 2020 election rigging.
No indictments for the left-wing radical groups that commit violence against conservatives in the United States.
How many Antifa groups have been dismantled since Charlie Kirk's assassination?
The answer is zero.
So you combine this track record, and it, I mean, a whole year of evidence we have now in front of us.
You combine this track record with the reality that Attorney General Pam Bondi has gone after people, either using the power of the Department of Justice to raid a Washington Post journalist, which is just constitutionally unthinkable.
That is, there's no constitutional justification for that, or saying that she's going to target people for hate speech and only correcting herself when people are like, wait a second, hate speech is not real.
It's protected under the First Amendment.
She's like, oh, I meant violence.
Well, that's not what you said.
And you don't make that mistake if you understand what you're talking about.
Or saying she was going to go after Office Depot because their employee didn't print a certain poster for a conservative.
And these things show a fundamental misunderstanding of the America First agenda that we voted for when we voted for President Trump.
And so you have to be, go ahead, go ahead.
I want to know, because I got a lot of heat yesterday online, people saying, you know, your blindness on Donald Trump is just, I can't take it anymore.
You're always defending Donald Trump.
And I'm thinking, first I'm thinking, how am I, wait, I was talking about Pam Bondi.
And then I understood after like the 50th comment saying she worked for Donald Trump.
She's, you know, Donald Trump is involved in everything.
So why blame her?
Why is this not Trump?
Well, she's the one that makes those decisions to bring to not bring those indictments.
I mean, remember a couple, this was probably a month ago, President Trump posted on Truth Social what appeared to be a private text message that he had sent to Pam Bondi asking her, holding her to account for the exact same things that you were saying about her yesterday that we're talking about today.
I believe President Trump is beginning to share our frustration.
Listen, there's a strange combination of factors when you're the chief executive.
Pam Bondi was very loyal to President Trump during his impeachments, and that's a good thing.
I'm going to be the first one to give her credit for that.
When a lot of Republicans turned up their nose at Donald Trump, she stood by him.
Donald Trump values loyalty, and he's going to return that loyalty in large part if that's given to him.
But there comes a point where you can't let a personal relationship or your appreciation for past loyalty color the analysis of whether someone is or is not an effective tool in enacting justice.
I mean, if you had asked me this time last year, Glenn, do I think we're going to see perpwaks and jumpsuits right when the Trump administration was, you know, right at the inauguration, I would have been like, oh, hell yeah, we're about to, justice is about to be served.
And you fast forward a year.
And if you ask me that same question today, I would say, I don't think so, because it hasn't all year.
And the one thing, what changed in the space of that year wasn't President Trump.
It wasn't his view on justice.
It wasn't President Trump moving away from understanding that the deep state targeted us.
They've continued to target him.
The answer is Pam Bondi.
She's become a liability to achieving what he promised that he would achieve as president.
And he's very open-minded.
He changes his mind when he knows that there's a staff member that is not well suited for that position.
So the reason that I don't look at him primarily and say this is Trump's fault is because, well, Pam Bondi was the one who ran the Department of Justice like this.
And yes, ultimately, President Trump can choose whether she continues to serve or not.
And I hope that he chooses here shortly that her service is going to be ending.
I have a feeling that things are going to change here.
I think he took this first year to try to get the world under control and get some of these fires put out so we're not in the Middle East all the time, et cetera, et cetera, and to change the dynamics.
I mean, what he did at the Davos World Economic Forum today was amazing.
And I have a feeling this next year, he's going to start turning internal, which I think is very, very needed and wise.
What did you think of his Davos speech today?
I thought it was, it's actually the most hilarious goat move ever, what he's doing at Davos.
And I think there's some people on our own side who are completely missing the point.
I mean, not only is he establishing this board of peace, which obviously takes an enormous amount of power away from the global entities, whether it's the United Nations or the World Economic Forum.
There have been times that there have been conservatives or Republicans or independents who have tried to establish alternatives to things.
The example that's coming to my mind is there was a group of conservatives at one point a couple of years ago that tried to establish an alternative to the White House Correspondents Association because it was corrupted by leftists.
But one of the commonalities in the past when someone presented an alternative is they usually take it outside.
They don't share turf at all with the person with the entity that they're competing with.
And this is totally opposite of what Trump is doing.
He's not just proposing this board of peace and saying, we're not going to come to your United Nations and World Economic Forum and Davos Club.
He is literally taking away their power in front of their own faces on their home turf.
And it is the most base, the most savage, the most, no one else.
President Trump is unparalleled.
No one else in the entire world could pull this off.
And it is a delight to watch.
It really is.
I mean, I was watching.
I remember Reagan giving the Evil Empire speech.
And I was working in Washington, D.C. at WPGC at the time.
And I remember, I mean, when KAL, the Korean airliner, was shot down by the Russians, I thought we were going to war.
I thought very clearly Reagan and the Russians were at each other's throats and there could have been nuclear war.
And I remember standing in the studio going, I'm going to be vaporized at any moment.
I could be vaporized.
And he was really strong, but I don't think I've ever seen a president do what this president is doing right now.
He's not going after the Soviet Union.
He is reshaping and destroying intentionally for good reason everything that people have said on our side.
The United Nations is a problem.
The UN, the international courts, all of this stuff that just takes away people's sovereignty, not just ours, but the rest of the world and Europe.
He is just taking it down and without blinking, without hesitation, just taking it down.
21 Days Proving the 2026 Prediction00:02:47
This is the way it is.
Sorry.
I've never seen anything like it.
Have you?
No, it's unbelievable.
And it's funny because it only took 21 days into this year to prove your prediction for 2026 to be correct.
Remember that episode we did on your show right before the new year?
You said we were talking about what the most significant thing that's going to happen in 2026 is based on what happened in 2025.
And you said the world order is going to change because Donald Trump is changing it.
That's the most long-lasting, significant legacy that he's going to leave.
And while it doesn't generate as many headlines as some of the other, you know, salacious stuff, you said that's going to be the most important thing that he does watch.
And what are we three weeks in and it's already happening?
Yeah, because nobody pays attention.
Nobody, even on our side, nobody understands, truly understands what he's doing and what he's doing.
It would have taken any other group, left or right, at least 20 years to do what he has done in 12 months.
It's incredible.
Incredible.
Liz, as always, great to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
All right.
Talk to you again, Liz Wheeler.
You can find her on Blaze TV.
She's just great, the host of the Liz Wheeler show.
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Trump Warns Against Mass Importing Failed Cultures00:01:45
What hasn't happened today?
Here is Donald Trump at Davos in a new clip on Minnesota and what's happening in Minnesota.
Listen to this.
Incredible.
And that's our great military.
The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures, which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own.
I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed, it's not a nation, got no government, got no police, got no million, got no nothing.
And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million.
You believe this?
Elon Omar talking about the Constitution provides me.
She comes from a country that's not a country, and she's telling us how to run America.
Not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you.
The explosion of prosperity and conclusion and progress that built the West did not come from our tax cuts.
It ultimately came from our very special culture.
This is the precious...
We're going to cover what he's talking about with Ilhan Omar tomorrow because it is amazing, the latest news.
But it's not going to last much longer.
That is interesting.
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