1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: It is January eighth, twenty twenty five. There are eight 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: days remaining of the Biden presidency until that moment at 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: noon when Donald Trump will raise his hand, swear the 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: thirty five word oath that he desecrated when he took 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: it in twenty seventeen, and become again the president of 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: the United States. This is the warning. Yesterday was a 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: preview to the insanity that will rain in the Oval 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: office and to the stupidity of the questions that will 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: face him from the corrupted American media. It was quite 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: the show. Donald Trump talked about water quality. 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: Let's called rain comes down from comes down from heaven, 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 2: and they want to do No. Water comes out of 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: you're in the shower ten times as long as you know. 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: He threatened to annex Canada. 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: Canada and the United States. That would really be something. 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 2: take a look at what that looks. 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: Like, invade Panama. 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: It might be that he'll have to do something. Look, 21 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: the Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,639 Speaker 2: operated by China. China, and we gave the Panama Canal 23 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: to Panama. 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: We didn't give it to China. And of course he 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: threatened Denmark and Greenland, saying that the United States needed 26 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: to buy it Greenland, that is, we have to have it. 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: You have approximately forty five thousand people there. People really 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: don't even know if Denmark has an illegal right to it, 29 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: but if they do, they should give it up because 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: we needed financial security. That's for the free world. I'm 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: talking about protecting the free world. 32 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: And the man who promised his supporters no more stupid 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: wars in the transition period has threatened to start at 34 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: least six. Here's the thing, and I tried to say 35 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: this for almost ten years. History is very clear about 36 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: what happens when men lake Trump take power. The first 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: thing to appreciate with regard to the threats is there 38 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: is no person who has ever made the threats that 39 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Trump has made who upon taking power, did not follow 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: through on them, did not deliver on them. Some of 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: them are just playing stupid, and some people will be 42 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: out of his reach. Liz Cheney is one of them. 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: She is constitutionally protected in a much clearer fashion than 44 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: was Donald Trump when he asserted the presidency gave him immunity. 45 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: A member of Congress absolutely has immunity. Liz Cheney is untouchable. 46 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump keeps threatening Denmark, a NATO ally. He says, 47 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: we need Greenland. He's fixated on it now. Greenland is 48 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: one of the largest islands in the world. It is 49 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: a frozen tundra. In fact, it's so remote that nobody 50 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: biologically has even taken a census of the polar bears 51 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: that live there. Indeed, there may be so many that 52 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: the species is not so endangered. Nobody knows. The island 53 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: is that remote and that unexplored. But it's melting, and 54 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: so is the sea ice that blocks the waterways that 55 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: can be transited during the back half of the twenty 56 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: first century by all manner of ships, including Russian, including Chinese. 57 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: And that is what the issue is about. Plus the 58 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: fact Greenland may be, from a rare earth mineral perspective, 59 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: the wealthiest place on Earth. What Donald Trump is saying, 60 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: and he's right about one thing, is that it is 61 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: absolutely unacceptable for the indigenous population or for Denmark to 62 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: do any business on Greenland with any Chinese concession that 63 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: seeks to mind, that seeks to use those minerals for 64 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: the advanced weapons that they could use to precipitate World 65 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: War three. It's important to remember always the Chinese, as 66 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: I speak, are engaged in the fastest military buildup in 67 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: world history. I'm going to say it again, the Chinese, 68 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: as I speak, are engaged in the largest, fastest military 69 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: build up in world history, and they intend to use 70 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: it in the Pacific. And the only way that war 71 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: will be avoided over the next twenty years is if 72 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: the United States maintains its strength. But because forty nine 73 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: point nine percent of the country have elected an imbecile, 74 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: the Chinese appreciate that we are weakening, and that we're soft, 75 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: and that we're divided. The Chinese will wait. They're patient. 76 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: Back to Greenland. Looking ahead these next decades, it's clear 77 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: the island will play in increasingly vital strategic role around 78 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: the Northern Hemisphere. The American position on these matters has 79 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: been clear all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine 80 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,679 Speaker 1: for over two hundred years about our intolerance for foreign 81 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: predations and foreign entanglements in the Western Hemisphere. And Greenland 82 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: is closer to New York City than it is to Europe. 83 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: There's another aspect of this. You won't hear this on 84 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: the news, but the last time the United States made 85 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: a territorial purchase it was from Denmark. The islands we 86 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: bought were called the Danish West Indies. Today we know 87 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: them as the US Virgin Islands. Hell, Trump's probably been 88 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: to one. It's where Jeffrey Epstein had his place. At 89 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: any rate, what Donald Trump is threatening to take through 90 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: bullying is not his. It does not belong to the 91 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: United States. It is a territorial possession of an ally, 92 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: and the borders are set. The man who ran on 93 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: the economy seems to be fixated on starting wars. He 94 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: seems to be fixated on his ego, his arrogancy. Seems 95 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: to be saying, you need to expand the United States. 96 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: Perhaps Trump sees himself as a conqueror. Perhaps Trump is 97 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: so incoherent he doesn't know what he's talking about at all. 98 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: Usually there's a grain of truth, and there is here. 99 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: It would benefit the United States for American companies to 100 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: be involved in extractive industries in greenland mining, the rare 101 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: earth minerals that the American economy needs, that the American 102 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: defense sector needs. The indigenous people of Greenland could be 103 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: some of the wealthiest on earth. Maybe what Donald Trump 104 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: is trying to say in the crudest way is that 105 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 1: there's an offer on the table and also lay out 106 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: a warning that there's business to be done, but not 107 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: with the Chinese. If so, he's doing it in the 108 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: worst way possible and the dumbest way imaginable. Donald Trump's 109 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: insanity makes it clear at the news conference, though the 110 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: press can't comprehend it, We're all in a lot of trouble. 111 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: His incoherence is growling into something very menacing and sinister. 112 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: Canada is a nation and an ally, and among the 113 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: greatest blessings that Americans have is that we share the 114 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: longest undefended, peaceful border in global history. We have millions 115 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: of people on both sides of that border, married families intertwined. 116 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: Our people have made blood sacrifices on freedom's altar. Together, 117 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: our commerce is worth trillions of dollars, and Trump seeks 118 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: to upend it for what why? Eight days from now, 119 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to deliver an inaugural address and 120 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: shocks the conscience of the world. He will not call 121 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: for a better tomorrow. He will make a series of 122 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: announcements that will be bone chilling, and they must be resisted, 123 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: and they must be talked about, and there must be 124 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: an articulation of better. Donald Trump can barely speak English. 125 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: But here's the truth. Neither came most of the democratic politics, 126 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: who speak in some hybrid language of data points and 127 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: poll tested banalities, I mean nothing. Well, Trump's venomous idiomatic 128 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: English is perfectly understood. What is the meaning of Trump's 129 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: rhetoric about Canada, Panama, Greenland. There's a war in Europe 130 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: that's killed a million people. The Russians invaded a sovereign nation. 131 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is cheering a far right German party that's 132 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: a neo Nazi party in its origins, and whose leader 133 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: says the SS is not a criminal organization and the 134 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Germans have too much shame for the Holocaust. We live 135 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: in frightening days because we've outrun memory of the event 136 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: that shaped the world for eighty years. We're moving beyond 137 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: it now into something new and undiscovered country, a dangerous 138 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: new frontier. And at the head of the column is 139 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: the greatest American imbecile, a man of the lowest character, 140 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: a stupendously ignorant liar, who with each step, draws us 141 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: closer to an abyss, closer to the danger, away from 142 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: the ideal of peace and prosperity, friendliness between nations. When 143 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: we look back from wherever this ends, I promise you 144 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: it will be with tears. This is the warning. I'm 145 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 146 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 147 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.