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Jan. 22, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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Greenland and Europe's Future
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President Trump's Pitch 00:15:27
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Well, President Trump just unleashed, rightly so, and he did it with the right pitch, tone, cadence, and everything that you would ever want.
But he said what needed to be said.
And I know the world, wow, they're breathing a sigh of relief that President Trump says he will not take Greenland by force.
He never planned on taking Greenland by force.
Yesterday, when he answered the question at the press conference at the White House, and somebody asked him the question, he said, you'll see.
I mean, he's been on the world stage since 2015.
And here we are all these years later, 11 years on the world stage.
And these idiots just, it's like they know nothing about President Donald J. Trump.
They don't want to understand President Donald J. Trump.
It was a phenomenal speech.
Now, yesterday, the president went into great specificity and detail about all his success.
And a lot of that came up in his speech today because Europe has adopted all of the wrong policies on immigration.
They have opened borders, which has resulted in Great Britain.
Nobody ever thought Great Britain would have 80 some-odd of Sharia courts, but they do.
Nobody thought Europe would ever have no-go zones where people just practice Sharia law, live separately and apart inside of a European country and have not assimilated to the country's values and legal system, but that that's allowed to exist.
He took on their socialist economic policies.
He took on their climate cultism.
He took on the fecklessness and weakness of NATO and their lack of prioritizing their national security and national defense and the geopolitical importance of Greenland.
As I've been saying to anybody that was listening, I've been saying Donald Trump is negotiating.
Well, you know, he takes up more space in people's minds than any one human being on the face of the earth.
It's entertaining to watch on one level, but on another level, it's like, how stupid are you people?
I mean, it really is spectacular.
Trump telling European leaders they'd all be speaking German without the United States.
He said, we probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable, but I'm not going to do that.
Now everyone says, oh, good.
And I think what's going to happen and what I said the other night, and it got picked up by a lot of the press, that my advice is, you know, make them an offer they can't refuse.
Make Greenland an offer they can't refuse.
You know, per capita income on average is about $60,000 a year with the 56,000 plus Greenlanders.
And, you know, 10,000 of that comes in the form of welfare payments from Denmark.
And the president even pointed out how Denmark, you know, during the Nazi invasion, maybe survived about six hours and that's it.
I mean, it's just pretty pathetic.
And the reality and the truth is this simple, that Europe needs the United States of America.
They can talk tough.
When Donald Trump said that you need to beef up your prioritization of NATO and more than double your contribution to NATO, they were complaining and never going to happen.
And what happened?
They eventually capitulate because the president's right.
You know, look what happened.
All of Europe, feckless, impotent when it comes to Vladimir Putin, you know, mobilizing troops on the border with Ukraine four years ago.
They didn't do a thing.
They didn't lift a finger.
Now, granted, Ukraine's not part of NATO, but that's not the point.
You know, they say they feared this, but go back to Angela Merkel when Trump handed her in his first term the white flag of surrender because she, you know, she decided to purchase, you know, billions and billions and billions of dollars in energy, liquefied natural gas, from Russia and make Russia rich.
And because they stupidly bought into this climate alarmism cult, we're going to get into this with Mark Morano.
He's actually in Davos and all the idiotic predictions of Al Gore back in the earth in the balance days and even before that.
I mean, every one of them predicted in certain timeframes, all proven wrong.
And it's just amazing that without Donald Trump on the world stage, all of these countries are not capable of defending themselves against their top geopolitical foes.
And it's not a truth or reality that they want to acknowledge.
I love when the president blasted the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, at his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Canada lives because of the United States.
Remember that, Mark.
Next time you make your statements, responding to him.
And during the speech, Carney said that there's been a rupture in the world order and defended Greenland against Donald Trump's plan to seize the territory by calling on smaller nations to stick together.
You know, they send their 37 troops to Greenland and they think they're making a big statement.
They're not.
And the president rightly pointed out about NATO.
What would NATO be without the absolute might and force of the U.S. military?
And the president said it in front of all of them.
We give so much, we get so little in return.
You wouldn't have NATO if I didn't get involved in my first term.
Until I came along, NATO was supposed to pay 2% GDP.
The U.S. was paying virtually 100% of NATO.
I got NATO to pay 5%.
They weren't paying.
Now they're paying.
They didn't like that policy of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump called out Europe.
They're supposed to be our friends and our allies, and they count on us, rely on us for national security reasons and national defense.
They do that.
And then, you know, lo and behold, they slap tariffs on the United States, abusing American consumers, but yet they want access to American markets.
And he flipped that strategy on them completely.
And they had a fit collectively when Donald Trump said he was going to put tariffs on European countries.
Lo and behold, they came up with a deal and they're paying the tariffs and then no longer ripping us off.
You know, Trump addressed this issue of, you know, no nation is in a position to secure Greenland.
Now, if the president is able to pull this off with Greenland, if you look at it geopolitically, strategically, and the president's plan for a golden dome that would protect Europe, the biggest beneficiaries of Greenland partnering with the United States is that they will have protection like they've never had before.
But they don't think, they just react and bubble and fizz like the media in our own country.
I love the president starts out his speech.
He greets so many friends and a few enemies that were in the room.
And then the president said, would you like me to say a few words on Greenland?
Would you like me to do that?
I was going to leave it out of the speech, but I thought I think I would have been reviewed very negatively.
And then he goes on to say, no, he's not going to take it by force.
But then he bashed Europe's and their reliance on windmills.
I mean, he went after their climate alarmism and their climate alarmist religious cultism.
And the president bashed Europe for their reliance on windmills for their electricity during this speech.
He said there are windmills all over the place and they're losers.
One thing I've noticed is that there are more windmills than a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse off that they are.
And I mean, he had some amazing quotes.
I'm going to play some of it in this hour.
We'll play some later in the program as well.
But, you know, this is the president saying he won't take force on Greenland.
Oh, as if we didn't know that he wasn't going to do that.
If you study Donald Trump, pay attention to Donald Trump, then you know he means what he says.
Listen.
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 gave it back to them.
Then he went in and he said, we asked for, you know, we're asking for right title ownership.
You can't defend it on a lease.
And then he goes and says this.
He discusses how the U.S. saved Greenland during World War II, and you'd all be speaking German if not for the United States of America.
Boom.
Listen.
We saw this in World War II when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.
So the United States was then compelled, we did it, we felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it we did at great cost and expense.
They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried.
Denmark knows that.
We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark.
We fought for Denmark.
We weren't fighting for anyone else.
We were fighting to save it for Denmark.
Big, beautiful piece of ice.
It's hard to call it land.
It's a big piece of ice.
But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere.
So we did it for ourselves also.
And then after the war, which we won, we won it big.
Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps.
After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark.
How stupid were we to do that?
But we did it.
But we gave it back.
But how ungrateful are they now?
Well said.
Never mind how they abuse the people of Greenland.
And then he pointed out we need Greenland for strategic, national, and international security.
You know, this whole talk, well, he really just wants access to the natural resources.
I talked to some experts.
There's maybe like a month, a year that you'd have the ability to cut through all that ice and get rare earth minerals that everyone's talking about.
He said, We're not doing it for rare earth minerals.
Here's what he said: Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory that's sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia, and China.
It's exactly where it is, right?
Smack in the middle.
Wasn't important nearly when we gave it back.
You know, when we gave it back, it wasn't the same as it is now.
It's not important for any other reason, you know.
Everyone talks about the minerals.
There's so many places.
There's no rare earth, no such thing as rare earth.
There's rare processing, but there's so much rare earth.
And this to get to this rare earth, you got to go through hundreds of feet of ice.
That's not the reason we need it.
We need it for strategic national security and international security.
That's it.
And then the president goes on and just rips Europe to shreds, but he did it in a nice way.
And he called out European leaders, you know, just being scared to look at him.
But Europe would be the biggest beneficiary of the Golden Dome and America's presence on the ground in Greenland for strategic defense and geopolitical national security.
It would benefit the U.S., it would benefit Europe.
It would benefit the world.
It would make the world a safer, better place.
It's that simple.
Anyway, we'll have a lot more of the president's speech coming up, but it was powerful today.
It really was.
And he held nothing back, but he did it in a respectful way, I guess, to calm the waters of people scared to death that he was going to attack Greenland.
It would be a stunning accomplishment.
I want to just lay out here because the president said today that he and the NATO Secretary General have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland.
And the president said as a result of that negotiation, he would no longer impose punitive tariffs on a slew of European countries that were set to begin on February 1st.
And the president posted on Truth Social based on a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rudders' name.
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 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.
The Vice President, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, his special envoy, and others, as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations and they will report directly to me.
Understand Something About Trump 00:02:23
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The minute that happened, stocks shot up immediately.
What's the Dow at now, Linda?
Take a look.
Details about the framework of the agreement were pretty unclear.
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for additional information.
Now, if you have the framework for a deal, what did I say the last number of days?
I said, all right, everybody, calm down.
This is Donald Trump.
This is what he does.
Donald Trump is negotiating.
And he starts here, but he has every intention of ending up over here.
I mean, this would be the perfect example.
I want you to know, you know, and understand something here, because I think this is really, really important, especially when it comes to President Trump.
By the way, the Dow up 600 points.
And I think we're going to hit 50,000 probably soon, 49,091.
Anyway, so you need to understand something about President Trump.
Everything with him is a negotiation.
I've been saying this for days.
By the way, the heckler that booed Howard Lucknick today during the Davos event revealed as a familiar face.
Luttnick was speaking at this invite-only VIP dinner hosted by a billionaire BlackRock boss, Larry Fink, when a heckler now identified as climate change advocate and former vice president Al Gore started booing.
This guy is the former head of Cantor Fitzgerald.
On 9-11-01, Canter Fitzgerald lost most of their employees because they were on the top floors of the World Trade Center building.
And this guy, Howard Luttnick, you know, ensured that the business would continue.
And Canter Fitzgerald, it did, and very successfully, and took care of all the families and started a scholarship fund for every child that lost a loved one, that lost a parent that day.
President's Busy Air Schedule 00:03:37
And his life story is amazing.
And Al Gore is there.
We'll prove how Al Gore is such a liar and all his predictions over the years have been dead wrong on so many different levels.
But anyway, and, you know, we'll get to Gavin Newsome here in a second.
But just think of this fact.
It's a pretty stunning accomplishment if President Trump is able to get NATO to do a total 180 and agree to a framework on a possible Greenland deal.
But, you know, the fact, understand the schedule the president had.
Now, what was the president's press conference yesterday?
Close to two hours, an hour and 45 minutes?
It was insane.
It was just more than Joe Biden did in his entire four years in office.
He got onto Air Force One in the 9 o'clock hour.
It's a nine-hour flight from Washington to Davos.
Air Force One, after an hour and 20 minutes, then the air was forced to return to D.C. because they had an electrical problem.
They had to switch planes.
And then he gets back on another plane.
So that adds another three hours, probably four hours to the trip.
So now you're looking at, you know, 13 hours total.
So he makes that trip.
I've been on Air Force One with President Trump.
He doesn't sleep when he's on Air Force One.
He's working the whole time.
And after they returned to Joint Base Andrews, about an hour after departing, an hour and 20 minutes after departing, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said the decision was made after takeoff when the crew aboard Air Force One identified a minor electrical issue.
Very common.
A lot of airplanes.
They're mechanical and they have so much redundancy that you always show an abundance of caution, especially when a president's on a plane.
But they actually, the airlines do it for, they would have done the exact same thing, to be honest.
A reporter on board said the lights in the press cabin of the aircraft went out briefly after takeoff.
No explanation offered.
But anyway, a little less than an hour and a half, they turn around.
They board another aircraft, Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757, normally used by the president for domestic trips to smaller airports.
And then they went to the World Economic Forum in Davos shortly after midnight.
But, you know, if you're on a plane where the lights go out, then you have to go back, and then you have to fly nine more hours.
It's a pretty amazing feat by the president.
And then to give this speech, you know, full-on, you know, straight to the core issues now facing Europe.
And Europe now has a really, really important moment for themselves.
Either they are going to learn, and the president said the best thing that they could do is learn from the United States of America.
That's what the president was telling them.
That that would be in their best interest because America is now, you know, we're expecting even higher GDP for the fourth quarter.
You know, it will be above 5% by every measure.
That is a spectacular achievement.
Lower gas prices.
We have the lowest trade deficit in 20 years, lowest gas prices in four or five years.
We have the lowest interest rates in about four years, and they're going down lower.
Inflation Finally Under Control 00:08:00
Inflation finally under control, which is great for every American.
And this, you know, these allies don't understand Macrone and all of them.
I mean, they have bought into this idiotic, imbecilic, woke, stupid mindset, mentality, and they bought into the climate change religious cultism of the radical left.
And they have compromised their national security to the point that without the United States, honestly, they're dead.
You know, they can't, I promise you that our top geopolitical foes, Russia and China, they don't respect Europe.
They don't respect NATO, but for the United States.
You know, Trump told to F off by a Danish lawmaker.
Oh, okay, that's really productive.
Well, what did the people in Denmark do for the people in Greenland except force sterilization on Greenland's women?
Oh, excuse me.
You know, without their knowledge or consent, they're placing IUDs in thousands and thousands of Greenland women and girls without their consent under the direction of government officials.
It wasn't until December of 2024 that they finally acknowledged and apologized for what they did.
It was just, you know, really, really disgusting conduct on their part.
But, you know, this is a moment where the world has, it's a tipping point for the world.
It's a tipping point for Europe.
They reverse course or they continue down the path to their own self-destruction.
They're adopting socialist policies that will destroy them.
They're adopting policies that will bankrupt them in terms of climate alarmism.
They're adopting policies that are weak on national security and national defense.
They are collapsing from within, and they're not respected around the world.
And without the United States of America and without our support, I'm not really sure what they'd be able to do on their own.
I don't really think that they're going to do a lot.
You know, yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Trump being in office.
What has he done?
He's secured the border.
He's removed all these violent criminals, tens and tens of thousands of them.
He's paid people to self-deport.
That's been in the millions.
He disabled Iran's nuclear weapons program, arrested Maduro, who's bringing all these drugs into our country.
He cut fentanyl deaths by 80% in one year because of border security.
Inflation at 2.6%.
It averaged more than 5% under Biden.
Got up to nearly 10%.
It was over 9%.
Gas prices now back to early 2021 prices and dropping.
GDP projections now, fourth quarter.
I mean, now you're looking at Reagan levels of, you know, 5 plus percent.
His tariffs, everybody was critical of them.
They're working.
A lot of people were skeptical, but they're working.
He freed all these hostages from Hamas.
He was able to put an end to the Israeli-Iranian conflict in 12 days by taking out their nuclear facilities, and they pretty much gave up and surrendered.
You know, he's cut 10 regulations for every one new regulation added.
He stopped transgender surgeries on children.
I mean, he's, I would imagine by the end of this year, it's possible the Iranian regime is gone.
Cuba's regime is gone.
That there's hope for the people of Venezuela for the first time and with all their vast natural resources that they could be a very wealthy country once again.
He's still working.
Now we're in phase two of this peace plan.
He said just today that either Hamas will disarm or they will be disarmed.
And Donald Trump doesn't make idle threats.
So we can have an end of this conflict in the Middle East, an end of the conflict, hopefully even in Europe and ending the Ukraine war.
And, you know, but what do they say?
He's a crazy, narcissistic, insane egomaniac, not a good person.
Well, you know, for Democrats, they have to hope that Donald Trump fails everywhere for them to even have a chance at these midterm elections.
This is not your average election cycle.
I'm not looking at historical trends here.
I'm looking at all of you.
Because everybody in this audience makes a pledge and a promise to themselves that they are going to get out and they're going to vote.
That's the only thing I need you to do.
That's the only thing we need.
Just commit that you are going to vote and you're not going to stop the great progress we've made as a country.
You know, we have a Border Patrol agent, by the way, injured after an illegal immigrant rammed officers with his car.
Happened again, the fourth incident in two weeks.
DHS said officers with the department conducting a targeted operation in Compton, California to arrest violent criminal illegals.
By the way, all Gavin is doing, Gavin Newsom, the highest income taxes, highest sales taxes, highest gas taxes.
You have people in the Pacific Palisades.
They can't even get a permit to rebuild their homes, which should have been saved in the first place if they'd practiced the science of forestry and if hydrants had water and reservoirs had water.
And he just walks away from it and he can travel the world.
He can be doing his full-time podcast, his full-time tweety bird, his full-time stalking of Trump, and he's not doing a thing for the people.
He just wants, people love my speech.
You know, don't get on your knees to Donald Trump.
He's just a moron.
And I just can't wait.
I'll take that choice in a presidential election every day of the week.
I really will.
It is Gavin Newsom's insane.
Oh, and now he's waiting to the last possible day to have a special election after this congressman died out there.
I mean, he's the worst of the worst.
I wish I could share.
I got to get Gavin's permission to share his last text to me, right, Linda?
I told you what it was.
93% of legacy media's coverage of Renee Goode and what happened was slanted against ICE.
Minnesota officials refuse to let ICE deport over 1,300 criminal illegals.
Oh, if these people get arrested for aiding and abetting, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
The Trump administration announced 7,000 illegal alien gang members have been arrested just in the last year.
I mean, far-left organizations in Minnesota, you know, with that church storming, they raked in over a million dollars from anti-poverty nonprofits.
We're going to look into that.
Don Lemon could be prosecuted.
That's in the news today.
Justice Department plans to prosecute all these church invaders under the same law that Biden used to prosecute pro-life protesters.
Quarter Trillion Dollars Deal 00:00:30
Whoopsie-daisy.
That's going to be an interesting battle.
We have other good economic news.
Atlanta Fed increased their GDP growth estimate again today.
5.3%, up from 5.1%.
Things keep getting better.
Taiwan agreed to spend a quarter trillion dollars to build new semiconductor plans right here in the U.S. Good.
More high-paying career jobs for Americans.
Buckle up.
The golden era is in effect.
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