Trump responded saying that he hoped the team didn't want him to choose between the stick and the jersey, then:

"Maybe I get both, who the hell knows. I’m president, I’ll just take ‘em.”

Because as we all know, that's what presidents do: just take'em.

Heather then notes that in the fall of 2021, Trump told Susan Glasser and her husband, journalist Peter Baker, that he wanted Greenland as a piece of real estate.

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
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“'I’m in real estate,' he told them. 'I look at a corner, I say, "I gotta get that store for the building that I’m building," et cetera. You know, it’s not that different.'"

And in his interview with New York Times published on January 7, Trump said he wants not just to work with Greenland, but to own it, “Ownership is very important,” he told David E. Sanger.

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
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“'Why is ownership important here?' Sanger asked.

'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,' Trump answered. 'I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.'”

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
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"Katie Rogers asked: 'Psychologically important to you or to the United States?'

Trump answered: 'Psychologically important for me. Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything.'”

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
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"This Pax (Ex) Americana era was illustrated Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrapped up a trip to China. This wasn’t just any old visit, either: It marked the first time a Canadian PM had been to the world’s second-largest economy since 2017—and based on the glamorous video Carney’s team released, it was a smashing success for Beijing."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
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thebulwark.com/p/trump-making-…

Trump Is Making China Great Again

America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.

^{Catherine Rampell (The Bulwark)}

"Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a 'new strategic partnership' between the two countries. ... Trump’s big bet that countries would ultimately determine that they simply can’t live without America’s markets, and thus would cave to his every whim, was dangerously wrong. Instead, Carney’s Beijing visit shows just how much Trump has done to make China great again."

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
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"In recent weeks and months, China has advanced or rekindled relationships with many of our allies, hosting a parade of foreign leaders."

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
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His 'Donroe' atavism fits with his other primitive throwback policies, from tariffs (recalling the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that deepened the Great Depression) to immigration, racial discrimination and restriction (recalling the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 excluding southern and eastern Europeans and barring Asians)."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWar #immigrants #Venezuela #Greenland #oil #Iran #affordability #DonroeDoctrine
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him

History tells us what happens when American presidents focus on foreign policy and neglect domestic economic policy

^{Sidney Blumenthal (The Guardian)}

"While Trump strides across the stage posing as a world conqueror, the Quinnipiac poll shows him to be an incredible shrinking man – 57% opposed to 'running' Venezuela; 73% opposed to sending troops there; 55% opposed to taking over its oil sales; 86% opposed to militarily seizing Greenland; 55% opposed to buying it; and 70% against military action against Iran. According to the AP-NORC poll, 61% disapprove of his foreign policy in general."

#Trump #economy #tariffs #Venezuela #Greenland
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"The Reuters-Ipsos poll showed only 17% in favor of Trump acquiring Greenland & 4% in favor of military force.

Public disapproval of Trump’s foreign policy now nearly equals the disapproval of his economic policy, on cost of living at minus 25 points. Trump has repeatedly derided the reality of the 'affordability crisis' as a 'hoax', 'scam' or 'con job', lately on 13 January, as a 'fake word', as though he could magically make it vanish."

#Trump #economy #affordability #tariffs #TradeWar
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"Financial Times: The first US sale of the Venezuelan crude oil was to a company whose senior member had donated to Trump’s re-election campaign. The sale was conducted last week to a company called Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol, donated $6 million to PACs backing Trump’s re-election campaign."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #Vitol #JohnAddison #EconomicElites
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meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

Today in Politics, Bulletin 287. 1/16/26

… Trump took Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize medal with a big grin on his face.

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

"Addison also attended the meeting Trump had with oil executives at the WH and was also involved in his company’s efforts to secure a $250 million deal for Venezuelan crude. The deal kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil."

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #Vitol #JohnAddison #EconomicElites
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"We’ve just gotten another reminder that history, under Trump, is both morbid and mischievous. At this very moment in Greenland, amidst the icebergs and desolation, the great powers of the Western world are assembling –" (continued in /15)

~ David Shuster

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
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blueamp.co/p/germany-sends-tro…

Trump’s Greenland Madness Has NATO on Alert

European troops deploy to Greenland—not to stop Russia, but to deter Trump. A surreal, dangerous moment in U.S. history, explained by David Shuster.

^{David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)}

(continued from /15)

"not to repel the Hun or confront Lenin’s Bolsheviks, but to gently, awkwardly, and incredulously discourage the President of the United States from behaving like an intoxicated real estate speculator at a polar auction

Britain, France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden have dispatched soldiers, ships, and warplanes to the Arctic, ostensibly to reassure the world that the Arctic has not been 'abandoned,' as Donald J. Trump has alleged."

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
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"What I am about to share with you is an exclusive report with enormous global implications. We have live sources on the ground in Greenland at this very moment as Donald Trump announces sweeping tariffs against European nations in an unprecedented attempt to force the purchase of Greenland."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
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aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new…

NEWS: Trump Imposes Massive Tariffs on Europe to Force Annexation of Greenland, Live Exclusive Coverage From Greenland

Good afternoon everyone.

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

Abolish ICE and the entire DHS

Jail every thug who works there

Jail FOR LIFE NO PAROLE every senior manager or director

Have you watched The Drey Dossier’s series “Who TF is in my head?”

Re: investigation into Elon’s Neuralink doing testing on ICE prisoners.
She brings receipts & I would not be surprised if she’s right about all of this.
So much depravity everywhere , it’s so common. So pervasive. We are only just starting to see and be aware of it fully.

open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd…

#musk #neuralink #ICE

Who TF Is In My Head? | Part 1: The Neural Network

I’m starting a new series today, and I wish I didn’t have to.

^{The Drey Dossier}

I think the cruelty serves a purpose to promote group cohesion among the admins supporters.

And it also serves a much more important purpose for their goal to disenfranchise Blue cities and states so they can “win” the mid-term elections. They know they will lose decisively if folks in these areas get to vote.

ruby.social/@stepheneb/1159116…

Why isn't an impeachment case on Stephen Miller in progress? He is 100% responsible for these illegal kidnappings. Congress could stop this madness by withholding ICE funding and launching investigations, but the MAGAt GQP don't care about our laws or Constitution. The problem is that 39% of Amerikkkans want this! That's the scary part. Years of GQP propaganda. We are no better than Russia.

"For the 39%, the border is an existential crisis. An invasion."

cmarmitage.substack.com/p/how-…

Eight Men Control What 40% of Americans Believe

Or is his "base finally fracturing"

^{Christopher Armitage (The Existentialist Republic)}

It does not indeed, an utter shame that this can happen in a country we that perceived as civilized…

The playbook of fascism as we saw happening in the 1930s… in the country of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven… apparently it does not take much for a pied piper…

What ICE is doing now is a continuation of what the US has done for decades whether officially and federally, as with prisoners in Iraq and other CIA black sites, or locally and supposedly rogue, as with, for example, the Chicago police torture factories run by Jon Burge and Richard Zuley.

If you scratch the surface you will find a long and rich history of incredible violence against its own citizens the vast majority, of course, being people of colour.

Now, it's out in the open.

The fascism has funding. Lots of it.

Democracies continue to underestimate how badly the fossil fuel industry & the rich want to retain control

nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/poli…

desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-…

theaimn.com/the-ipa-just-explo…

desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-…

forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2…

newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08…

desmog.com/2016/01/21/beyond-k…

These are the people funding the far right

1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936

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Beyond Koch: Meet the Other Right-Wing Oligarchs Featured in Jane Mayer's "Dark Money" - DeSmog

The shenanigans of the “Kochtopus” have garnered most of the headlines — including here — pertaining to reviews of New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer’s new book, Dark Money.

^{Steve Horn (DeSmog)}

-Abolish ICE
-Abolish DHS
-Prosecute every single crime committed by the goons and the politicians
-Repeal every part of the PATRIOT Act
-Replace militarized police forces with integrated public safety department
-Pay reparations
-Let everyone who wants to come back return
-Release our colonies
-Join the ICC
-Restore full funding to the UN

To start.