US Allies Prepare to Defend Greenland Against Trump, World Leaders on Turning On US

15 Jan 2026 · 18 min · 8 chapters

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Episode Title

US Allies Prepare to Defend Greenland Against Trump, World Leaders on Turning On US

Podcast Hosts

  • Jennifer Welch
  • Angie “Pumps” Sullivan

Episode Overview The hosts discuss the current political climate in the U.S. and its impact on international relations, particularly focusing on Greenland and the perceived threats posed by former President Donald Trump. The episode emphasizes the growing concern among U.S. allies in Europe regarding Trump's administration and its implications for democracy.

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Key Topics and Discussions

  1. Trauma of Current News Cycles
  2. The hosts express frustration about consistently negative news, indicating that the current political landscape feels overwhelming and disheartening.
  1. Critique of Trump's Administration
  2. Senator Chris Van Hollen is quoted, condemning the Trump administration's approach to civil liberties and governance, particularly referencing the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.
  3. The hosts label Trump and his administration as "lawless" and "obscene," highlighting concerns about the treatment of marginalized communities.
  1. Political Landscape Ahead of 2028
  2. The discussion includes speculation about potential candidates for the 2028 election, emphasizing the need for a leader with "moral clarity."
  3. Gavin Newsom is critiqued for his corporately compromised stance, particularly regarding billionaire taxation.
  1. Economics and the Working Class
  2. The hosts discuss the paradox of wealthy individuals like Trump and Elon Musk feeling oppressed despite their vast fortunes, pointing to a disconnect between the rich and the working class.
  3. The notion that these oligarchs are manipulating societal narratives for their benefit is a repeated theme.
  1. Concerns Over U.S. Foreign Policy
  2. The episode highlights potential military concerns involving Greenland, asserting that Trump's desire for U.S. control over Greenland may be a manipulation influenced by Russia.
  3. The U.S. State Department is criticized for actions that may jeopardize international goodwill, such as pausing immigrant visas for World Cup teams.
  1. European Response to U.S. Actions
  2. The hosts report on European nations, including the Netherlands and Canada, preparing military exercises to defend Greenland, framing this as a significant geopolitical shift.
  3. Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s involvement in operations related to Greenland illustrate a growing concern about U.S. foreign policy under Trump.
  1. Elon Musk and Corporate Influence
  2. Musk's influence on politics and his perceived oppression despite massive wealth are critiqued. The hosts call him a "corporate welfare queen," emphasizing the hypocrisy of his claims.
  3. The episode discusses the connections between Musk and Trump, suggesting a mutual benefit relationship that undermines democracy.
  1. Call for Universal Human Rights
  2. The hosts express solidarity with global protesters and emphasize the importance of universal human rights as essential to societal stability and happiness.

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Key Takeaways

  • The current political landscape is fraught with challenges that impact both domestic issues and international relations.
  • Oligarchy and corporate influence pose significant threats to democracy, as illustrated through the actions of figures like Trump and Musk.
  • The response from U.S. allies, particularly in Europe, signals a critical shift in global dynamics, emphasizing the need for vigilance in protecting democratic values.
  • The episode calls for a more equitable and humane approach to governance, advocating for leaders who prioritize human rights and address systemic inequalities.

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Conclusion The hosts end the episode by encouraging listeners to remain informed and engaged in the political process. They express hope for a future where democracy is upheld and citizens' voices are heard. The need for moral leadership in the upcoming elections is a resonant theme throughout their discussion.

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Chapters

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The Trauma of Current News Cycles

0:45 to 2:45

Discussion on the overwhelming nature of recent news and its impact.

“Senator Chris Van Hollen, play the clip.”

Critique of Politicians and Policies

2:45 to 5:08

Analysis of various politicians' actions and their implications on democracy.

“And I want to remind you that there is a huge portion of the electorate, of course, that they're like totally in the cult.”

The Impact of Oligarchs and Policies

5:08 to 7:40

Exploration of how oligarchs influence political agendas and national policies.

“So between tweeting about Nazi content, Elon Musk has taken a break yesterday, just a little respite, and he tweets the following.”

Geopolitical Tensions and Greenland

7:40 to 11:49

Examination of U.S. interests in Greenland amidst geopolitical tensions.

“According to a new report, a recent American government strategy outlined regime change plans to support the far right.”

The Role of Trump and Musk in Modern Politics

11:49 to 14:00

Discussion on how Trump and Musk's actions reflect broader societal issues.

“Think about how insane this is, that we are going to have Europeans fighting Americans in Greenland.”

The Oligarchs' Influence on Democracy

14:00 to 15:00

Explore how oligarchs undermine democracy and the implications of their actions.

“And all this business, we vote Republicans because they're so good on business.”

Global Human Rights and Protests

15:00 to 16:40

A discussion on universal human rights and ongoing protests both globally and domestically.

“They do not want Europe to exist because it is an example that regulated capitalism keeps people safer.”

The Pursuit of Happiness in a Technocratic World

16:40 to 17:16

Reflect on the limitations of technology in achieving true happiness.

“and shot by their own murderous regime in the United States of America, the people of Minneapolis, my heart goes out to you as well, because I believe in universal human rights.”
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0:04The news cycles have been almost traumatizing. It's been really difficult for Angie and I to get up, read all of the news that's going on and report on it because you're seeing so much more than you know the news. the gold standard or the bare minimum, anywhere from the bare minimum to the gold standard of every Democratic politician and or Republican moderate politician that cares about civil liberties and the United States of America and the Constitution. Senator Chris Van Hollen, play the clip. We bet we are. That is why all of you are here. And one of the most lawless, One of the most obscene examples of this administration's abuse against the people of this country is what's happening at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

1:14They lie. They have no respect for the truth. They send mass people out into neighborhoods all over the country. These are people like Kristi Noem, directed by people like Stephen Miller, people like J.D. Vance, who was lying through his teeth the other day. And of course, headed by the liar in chief, the lawbreaker in chief, Donald Trump. Okay. Hear me out, you guys, on this. I think for 2028, there is going to be somebody that has moral clarity, that isn't corporately compromised, that is going to rise above all of the front runners like Gavin Newsom, who is fighting for billionaires right now as we speak.

2:09He is fighting to the nail against the billionaire tax. He's going to lose the base doing stuff like that. I like his fight against Trump. I like the trolling of Trump. I don't like that. I think that if you're showing us, Gavin, that you are four billionaires, the same billionaires that get all these government subsidies who are whining and feel so oppressed about having to pay taxes, I don't think you're going to be the nominee. I think it's going to be some person like this, a truth teller who gets on camera and confirms what your eyes see and what your ears hear and calls out. He just did a roll call of all of the homicidal sociopaths in the middle of this regime.

2:54And I want to remind you that there is a huge portion of the electorate, of course, that they're like totally in the cult. They're totally in the MAGA cult, but there's a huge portion of that 77 million that voted for Trump that care about business. They justify their votes for these morally depraved candidates because they say, I'm a businessman or my husband's a businessman or I'm a businesswoman and we care about business. And this administration, with the use of tariffs and the destabilization globally, meddling in global world events, not in a democratic free market kind of way, but in a shakedown pay to play kind of way, is now doing things that are going to harm the World Cup, which is supposed to be an absolute windfall.

3:47The U.S. State Department is pausing immigrant visas on 15 of the 42 teams that have already qualified for this year's World Cup. So, you know, here's the thing. Like, we're supposed to host the World Cup. And remember the FIFA president that made Donald Trump like a FIFA Peace Prize? I think there was an instance where, like, Trump stole the trophy and then they made him another trophy. And then he was on stage with all those soccer players. This is something that Trump really, really cares about. But the people who are running the government, Mr. Prime Minister, as they call him, or I call him Mr.

4:24Nazi in chief, Stephen Miller, he didn't give a shit about the World Cup. He cares about being cruel and denying access to black and brown people that he deems beneath him. And this is a world where all of these things are colliding. You have these white Christian nationalists. You have just an absolute racist, homicidal Hitler wannabe and Stephen Miller that's combining with all of these oligarchs. What's the through line with all of this? These are all really wealthy people and they feel oppressed. They feel like they are being oppressed by working class people. So think about that. So between tweeting about Nazi content, Elon Musk has taken a break yesterday, just a little respite, and he tweets the following.

5:18So Avery Day tweets, we're all slaves to the bottom 10 % of society, far more than we are to the top 1%. I'm tired of our country being held hostage by thugs, and Elon Musk is the bullseye emoji. So let me just say that imagine being the world's first trillionaire, getting all of these government subsidies and feeling that oppressed and actually like making a record of how insecure you are and making a public record that you think the bottom 10 % of the world is oppressing you. It's wild. And so this is just a reminder, number one, that Elon Musk himself is an immigrant. It's important that we always point that out.

6:07And number two, that he is a corporate welfare queen. Pop this up, Kylie. Okay, so Elon Musk business empire is built on$38 billion in government funding. And Warren Gunnell's tweets, Elon Musk, the South African immigrant, got over$38 billion in corporate welfare from U.S. taxpayers. The immigrant that has been deemed most likely to need public assistance is Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, worth$716 billion. Julian Musk is the quintessential welfare queen, and he's the world's biggest titty baby victim. He feels oppressed. He feels like the poorest people in the world are oppressing him.

6:52And I want to remind you that this man, his legacy will forever be, number one, being a whining, complaining, low-T titty baby all over his social media website. And number two, the richest man in the world that killed the poorest people in the world. And so these oligarchs and this ass kissing from the FIFA president to Elon Musk, they are not going to be satisfied with dismantling American democracy. They've already set their sights on Europe. Kylie, pop this up. Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens.

7:42According to a new report, a recent American government strategy outlined regime change plans to support the far right. So as you know, when Elon Musk isn't retweeting Holocaust deniers and outright anti-Semitic horror on his website. He's also going after the UK and the EU. This is echoed by J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance is America's biggest political prostitute. He is bought and paid for by these tech oligarchs. And he is their little young foot soldier that they all know that Donald Trump is a Trojan horse. Nobody takes him seriously, most of all these people. And they want to roll out J.D. Vance after this.

8:31And it's not enough to dismantle American democracy. They want to go after Europe. So we used to have the competing and cooperation of democracies. And now we have this new world order that is forming where it's the competition among autocrats. And entangled in the American government are all of these oligarchs, which the power that Donald Trump has given them is just nothing short of greed and intellectual laziness on his part. And I want to show you, now they're going after Greenland. This is their first provocation towards our NATO alliance. And of course, everybody knows this is something Putin wants him to do, but they're completely hypocritical about Greenland from the start.

9:17Pop this up. So Russia and U.S. eye joint Arctic energy projects after Saudi talks. The first meeting since a bombshell call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puts joint hydrocarbons projects back on the agenda as Ukraine watches from the sidelines. And Joni Ascola tweets, so Trump, the U.S. president who wants joint energy projects in the Arctic with Russia and doesn't give military aid to Ukraine, wants us to believe the U.S. needs to own Greenland to defend itself with Russia. And I'm going to spare you all from the lie social post that the president put out yesterday, but it was, we need Greenland to protect us from Russia and China.

10:03Like anybody thinks that that man that greeted Vladimir Putin clapping like a trained seal in Alaska is anything but Putin's ally. I mean, we all see it. I mean, we all see the way you treated our ally, Zelensky, in the Oval Office. We all see how you roll out the red carpet for a war criminal and a murderous dictator, Vladimir Putin. Europe is taking this seriously, you guys. And so while the United States tries to play hypocritical with this. We have to protect ourselves from Russia. The whole thing is about these oligarchs getting the minerals from Greenland. They want Greenland, and Putin wants America to have Greenland because he wants to break up NATO.

10:54It is a long-term goal of his. So what's going to happen now? I'll show you what's happening. This is utterly insane. The Netherlands and Canada have joined the mission to defend Greenland. And then here's France. Kylie popped this up. Emmanuel Macron says, at the request of Denmark, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark and Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance. The first French military elements are already on their way. Others will follow. And then Germany as well. Newswire reports that Germany is deploying troops to Greenland. And Melanie D 'Argio says it took 331 days of a Trump presidency to get a U.S.

11:48ally sending troops to defend another U.S. ally from the U.S. Think about how insane this is, that we are going to have Europeans fighting Americans in Greenland. And here's the thing with these people. Like Donald Trump is stubborn and obstinate. And now that he has his sights on that, he won't stop. And he got a taste of how excellent the United States military is because God knows it has received the biggest budget of anything in the history of the world. And he watched live as they went and captured Maduro. And now he wants to go be a conqueror. And this is the personality type of all of these strongmen.

12:39And for him, it's about ego. For these oligarchs, they have a little puppet. And it's Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has this little puppet. And I want to remind you, Elon Musk, the same man who gets on his website and talks about how oppressed he is. So oppressed, the bottom 10%. You know, I don't know how they're oppressing him, but he feels like he is the most aggrieved, oppressed motherfucker on the planet, right? It has been widely documented and reported and not denied by Elon Musk that he and Vladimir Putin are friends and they have frequent conversations. And Elon Musk, you know, obviously is the one that outed Trump after they broke up.

13:26The reason Trump is not going to release the Epstein files is because he's in them. So we call this former boss a pedophile. But as pumps and I reported, there appeared to be some mutually assured destruction between Trump and Musk. Well, now Musk has come out in the last two or three weeks and he's going to fund Republicans so he can quote, take the country back. And I'm like, take the country back from who? Y 'all have everything. You have the presidency. You have the House. You have the Senate. You have the Supreme Court. You have everything. And you're still mad. And you're still angry. And all this business, we vote Republicans because they're so good on business.

14:05You've got it. You went from being worth, I don't know, a couple hundred million to now you're going to be the world's first trillionaire. You got everything you wanted. But here's the thing with these people that we have to understand they want everything. And even when they get everything, it's still not going to be enough for them. And they are intentionally weakening the United States government because as written, it gives the people the power to where if we had four years of this fuckery with Trump, these egregious human rights violations, all of the horrific news conferences, the bastardization of the White House.

14:46I mean, I could go on and on for hours about all the shit this fucker's done, right? But if we don't like it, we can vote him out. And they don't want that. They want to dismantle democracy. They do not want Europe to exist because it is an example that regulated capitalism keeps people safer. And they still have a lot of work to do. But regulated capitalism is not something that these oligarchs want people to see. They don't want the data to come out that in Europe, they, you know, removed all these sexual predators from Instagram and people are safer and blah, blah, blah. They don't want that data out there because they think the rules that apply to everybody else don't apply to them.

15:33And they have the most morally depraved, emotionally bankrupt, intellectually lazy slob, Donald Trump, that will do all of their work for them. But don't get it twisted. The people underneath him, Stephen Miller, he's not a dumbass. He is a diabolical freak show. And he and these oligarchs, they all have a lot of the same grievances, but I think they're swinging too big. I think that a lot of this is going to backfire. It's going to be interesting because the United States could rain economic hellfire on the United States by dumping treasuries and a lot of other things. So this calendar year up into the midterms, this new cycle is going to go from bad to worse, in my opinion.

16:27So let's keep our eyes on Greenland. My heart, my sincere heart goes out to all of the protesters in Iran. Similarly, all of the people being terrorized in our own country and shot by their own murderous regime in the United States of America, the people of Minneapolis, my heart goes out to you as well, because I believe in universal human rights. And I believe that a secular democracy is the best place for people to find happiness and contentment in this weird technocratic world that Elon Musk, you know, think about this, you guys. He has everything in the world and he's still not fucking happy.

17:09All right. So we know that the world that all of this technology provides is not going to make us happy either. That's all I have. Please like, subscribe, and we will be back later with more news.

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