Trump Goes Psycho After World Rebukes Him

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2:15Michael Popok:Donald Trump's descent into madness has hit rock bottom, and it's starting to dig over the last few hours when he said the crazy part out loud in a letter to Norway's prime minister that the reason he's going to take over Greenland militarily by war, by force against a NATO ally is because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize for having settled quote unquote eight wars. Yes, he's going to start a war because he didn't get the peace prize. I'm Michael Popak. You're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF, let's get to this new mental decline for Donald Trump. Now, we had a number of events that are going on all this week against which Donald Trump just told the Nobel Prime Minister, I'm sorry, the Norway Prime Minister and the Nobel Committee that the reason he needs to go to war is because he didn't get the Peace Prize.

3:13Michael Popok:I'll read to you from that letter now, which has been confirmed by Reuters and by the Norwegian prime minister, that they weren't being punked. It wasn't AI. It wasn't a deep fake. It was, you know, deep mental decline for Donald Trump. Now, a number of world events are going on right now on the world stage all the exact same time. You've got the Davos in Switzerland World Economic summit hosted by Donald Trump's buddies at BlackRock, a New York hedge fund, bringing together 3 ,000 people, 300 major players in the area of the world economy. Guess who's not there? Of course, our central banker is not there, Jay Powell.

3:56Michael Popok:Instead, Donald Trump's taking little Marco Rubio and Howard Lutnick with him to go, you know, hobnob during Davos. Now, what's missing from that room in Davos is world leaders to confront Donald Trump about his attempts to destroy NATO because this attack on Greenland will destroy the NATO alliance. How do I know that? Because everybody in NATO has said it will destroy the NATO alliance. And we got protesters, of course, at Davos against Donald Trump. Here's a clip.

5:01Michael Popok:Now that matches the booing in the protest. of Donald Trump in Greenland. Let's play a clip of the booing in Greenland.

5:19It's very important that we stay together and show that Greenland is not safe and we would not like to be and we can all won't be annexed by USA.

5:45We are people and we are a part of NATO, we are a part of Denmark. Denmark, the Kingdom of Denmark has always supported the United States when they have problem. And right now, they're saying thank you to us in this way.

6:08Michael Popok:But it even reached the NBA. The NBA playing overseas in the O2 arena in London. I think it was the Memphis Grizzlies versus the Orlando Magic. And during the playing of the U.S. National anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, listen to somebody's commentary and then the cheering in the arena against America, but primarily against Donald Trump. Play it.

6:53The night that I was still there Oh, Savior, let us go Oh, Savior, let us go Oh, Savior,

7:12let us go Oh, that is not the free

7:31Michael Popok:Now, against that backdrop, the European Union is going to be meeting this Thursday in Brussels to talk about how they're going to respond to Donald Trump's new retaliatory tariffs against more than 10 of our allies, starting with Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands. We're talking about a trillion dollars worth of trade relationships that Donald Trump's trying to wreck with another 10 percent because these countries in NATO are aligned in a raid against Donald Trump's attempts by war, by force to take over Greenland. And now we've got the new reporting that I kicked off the hot take with, that he actually wrote the following message to the Norwegian prime minister.

8:17Michael Popok:Sit down for this one, everybody. Grab a hot pot of coffee or bourbon. You're going to need it. Here's what he wrote. Considering, this is to Norway's prime minister, Janis Garstor, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Translation, I'm going to take over Greenland by war against my allies because I didn't get the peace prize. Okay, now look, he actually got the peace prize, right?

8:59Michael Popok:You've got Maria Corina Machado, who's so desperate. I mean, I can't totally blame her. So desperate to get into power after being the exiled leader and wanting to get into power in Venezuela as the democratically elected and lead the country back to democracy, that she'll do anything. She even met with Donald Trump in the White House and tried to give him, like bestow upon him her Nobel Peace Prize that she won for being exactly what you want an opposition exile leader to do, you know, against all odds, against all personal sacrifice to lead her country to peace and overthrow a dictatorship. That was Machado.

9:45Michael Popok:And so there's this photo, terrible photo, looks like a hostage video. I mean, Maria, blink if you need help. You obviously do in handing this over to Donald Trump. Now, we know what she was trying to do. She was trying to, you know, be obsequious and play up on his narcissism and do anything to get back into power. What does she care about? A little trifle, a little piece of gold. Of course, the Nobel Prize Committee has reminded everybody that you can't transfer a Nobel Prize, does not make you a Nobel Prize laureate because you got it from somebody else. I mean, you know, one of the Nazis, the propaganda minister, Goebbels, got a Nobel Prize given to him, too.

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12:07Michael Popok:So you don't think I'm making it up. Here's a series of clips of Donald Trump in various different venues. You know, 60 Minutes interview, you know, complaining to the Prime Minister of Israel about a speech, complaining about that he's not given enough love and recognition for stopping eight wars. I can't for the life of me think what the eight wars are, but here's all the clips. Let's play the clips. Did put out eight wars, eight and a quarter, because, you know, Thailand and Cambodia started going at it again. I'll put the list up if you want. So you put the list out. It's a hell of a list.

12:41But I've stopped eight wars. We do well. We settled eight wars. But we don't know the country's Azerbaijan. Yeah. Right? Got that right. No, it's good. It's good when you can say it takes a couple of days. They're actually good people. Yeah, great. Yeah, but that war was going on for 35 years. Armenia. That war was going on 35 years. Nobody even knew it. And Putin actually said to me, I cannot believe you settled that war. Because I've been trying for 10 years. And I literally, I settled it in one day. Trade. They do trade. I said, we're going to cut you off from trade. No more trade. To both of them.

13:21Got their attention. But to both of them. I said, we're going to cut you off. No more trade. Then I put 200 % tariffs on the next day. They called we'd look 35 years of fighting and they They sucked Do I get credit for it? No, they gave me I did eight of them India How about India and Pakistan and then so I did eight of them and then I'll tell you the rest of it. How are you doing? Okay? You gonna all be outside the beautiful Sun Good enjoy your lunch is a very good group. We've made a lot of progress already. We had about a five-minute meeting, and we've already settled about three of the difficulties.

14:06So thank you very much for being here.

14:09Michael Popok:Now, the EU has at its power the anti-coercion instrument, the ACI, which they can use to retaliate against retaliatory tariffs against them. So they're going to be meeting in Brussels on Thursday to consider whether they're going to impose tariffs. And who's that going to hurt? The American consumer. Who's that going to hurt? Not just the global economy, which will spin out of control and off its axis, but the American economy, which is already suffering under Donald Trump's out-of-touch, out-of-tune policies that benefit the billionaires and trillionaires in our society and crush the hopes and dreams of everybody else.

14:48Michael Popok:And you know who's watching all of this at the same time? Donald Trump's use again of tariffs as a weapon? The United States Supreme Court, because they have under their advisement, we call it sub-Judas, they're considering after full oral argument more than 70 days ago, whether to take away and declare once and for all that Donald Trump's use of the emergency tariff powers are unconstitutional and illegal under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, AIPA. Now, I'm not sure we're going to get that ruling tomorrow while he's in Davos in Switzerland. I doubt we're going to get it tomorrow.

15:31Michael Popok:If we get it, I think it's going to be in a few more months as all of these concurrences and dissents are being written along with the majority decision. But this is a new fact. It may not be officially part of the record, but the Supreme Court are human beings. They get the newspapers. They read the news. Maybe they even watch Legal AF and Midas Touch. And they know, I think some of them do, and they know that this is being misused and abused as another abuse of power by Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn't care. For as long as he has the shiny toy, he's going to continue to use and break the shiny toy until it's taken away from him.

16:09Michael Popok:So we're going to continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network, the protest in Davos, the protest in Greenland, the EU and NATO's response, and how they try through a combination of flattery, threatening, coercion, economic powers, how they try to rein in Donald Trump, who says the crazy part out loud. I'm starting a war because I didn't get the peace prize. I'm Michael Popok. Take a minute, slide over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us continue to grow towards 2 million subscribers. With your help, we will. And I'm running a sale for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and weekend, 25 % off our Substack annual paid membership.

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