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I never thought I would say this, but Greenland is everything, and I can explain. Chris Cuomo here. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. So how can Greenland be everything when I've continuously, constantly told you that Greenland is nothing? It is the distraction of all distractions. Well, I'll tell you, here's what's changed the calculus. You have the leader of Canada, a country known for not being known, right? For really not distinguishing itself in any way, certainly not offensively, okay? Right now at a world forum, the head of Canada is biting into the ass of the United States like it was a chew toy. Okay, why? Just a quick review on my phone when I was alerted to this fact shows that they have become an echo of geopolitical outrage that has been for all of the antics, the border, Russia, China, shithole countries, everything that has happened through the filter of Trumpism. Greenland, it turns out, was the straw that broke the world's back. And then on the heels of our understanding about our compadre Canada going bad on us, which only the most malignant of minds could come to that conclusion, they're going bad on us. The people least likely to be offended by anything have become outraged by us, but it's their fault. The head of France sends a text to the American president that he decides to share, where he says, I don't get what you're doing with the Greenland thing. Greenland is everything. It is a metaphor for everything that a shrinking slice of America loves about President Trump and everything that a growing slice of America and the rest of the planet hates about Donald John Trump, President of these United States. Now, let's look at it. Micro. Macro. Micro means small, macro means broad. Right? So the micro on Greenland is what? Who cares? Who cares? Did you know that Greenland is the biggest island on the planet? Me either. I thought it was Australia. Turns out Australia is something called a continent, which is different than an island. And apparently you can't be both. Okay? Greenland is the largest island. Now, I'm not gonna bore you with, you know, a data play here, but it is not who is there. It really isn't even the rare earth minerals, you know, people are talking about. First of all, there are a lot of areas of the Arctic that are believed to have significant deposits of rare earth metals. What are rare earth metals or minerals or particles? It depends on whose lens you're looking at the concept through. They're basically the things that go in our cell phones and our chips, okay? The precious different ingredients of technology. But they're found in Africa. There may be, you Know different deposits, other places. So Greenland isn't necessarily just about that. It's just really just one more factor. What is Greenland, objectively? Objectively is it is an apparent stopgap for foreign incursion. Now, many of you have raised the issue, which I really does make me laugh, but it makes me laugh. The laugh of the damned, not the laugh you think I'm having, which is. Oh, yes, yes. So rich. No, it's. I think I'm gonna cry if I don't keep laughing right now. Why? One guy put it perfectly and I'm sorry, I don't remember your name. I'm like, well, you know, Greenland. Greenland is, you know, right there. You know, Russia, people kill the concursion through the Arctic. You know, that's the waterway right there. That's why we had the sub base. Need more. And the guy says, what if you go the other way? Yes, yes. If you just decide to attack from the other direction, Greenland does lose a lot of its strategic perceived necessity. Yes, yes, yes. And then some like globologist or whatever you call somebody who studies the globe is like, well, you know, really, it's more of the top cap structure. So either way you go, you have a. The point is that when you look at it in terms of the European theater, yes, Greenland is like the last stop, let's say, before you get to North America, which is why it's considered part certainly of the western world, certainly an extension of the northern hemisphere. And I get it. But just because there is a contiguity of land mass doesn't mean that you have any right to it. So Greenland has a strategic objective. But here's what Greenland means, okay? It is a trophy. It is a metaphor for might makes right. It is a flex. Okay, now let's take Greenland as a metaphor more seriously here. And we will look at it and see why it is everything some love and many are learning to hate about this president. Now, hate is a word that I am generally resistant to. Why it is really dark. Hate is not to be used lightly. If you look up the etymological history of the word and its concept and usage, I mean, it really is when people say evil, demonic, hellish, really. That's where hate comes from. Hate Hades. And it is wishing ill. I want bad things to happen. So you don't hate pistachio ice cream. Okay, first of all, you shouldn't have anything but positive feelings towards pistachio ice cream unless it's green, because now you're dealing with food coloring and stuff. You're getting into the world of the fugazi. But you use hate very lightly, sparely, sparsely. And I'm using it here because there is a growing animus towards this man, which I'm worried about, period. Because I don't think it's good to have that degree of enmity or animus directed towards anyone, but it's going to spread to the rest of us. Okay, Greenland, let's do it the convenient way. Here's all the reasons that it is. Trump in full might makes right. We get to have it because we get to have whatever we want. And that is the lens of how President Trump sees the world. Nobody comes before us because we are better than anybody. We've done the most, we mean the most, we have the most, we spend the most, we give the most, and now we will take the most. That's Greenland. Greenland in that way could be anywhere. It could have been Canada. Is it easier that Greenland is kind of an annex onto Denmark? Sure, sure, it's convenient. But he could have gone ham like this on Antarctica, right? Why not Antarctica? Well, it wasn't introduced to him the same way as Greenland was, and it didn't meet with resistance, which is kind of what motivates him. Greenland is the opportunity for the President to get what he wants. Greenland is an opportunity for the President to show that he can impose his will on the rest of the world. The Nobel stuff seems ridiculous because it is, but it's also real. Okay, I would explain it this way. Have you ever watched a dog bark at a mirror? I have. Maybe for too long. Why is it so absurd? Because how does the dog not know that it is looking at a reflection of itself and there is nothing there to see as another. Okay, the absurdity doesn't remove the reality, as silly as that is. The dog is absolutely convinced. Same with President Trump. He believes he should have been given the Nobel Prize. He believes he has ended eight conflicts. A friend of mine said, can you name the eight wars now? They are smart enough and in rare Trump fashion, to not say wars anymore. They say conflicts. But I guarantee you lucky if you could name four of them because of these things that you didn't even know really were conflicts. And I would argue they're really not. And the idea that he stopped eight major anythings is poppycock. And the idea that he could deserve the Nobel Prize when everything about him is aggressive, violent, obnoxious and not peaceful, including his comments to Norway about not giving him the Nobel Prize. And by the way, you may be asking yourself Wait a minute. Can you knit these two things together for me? Why Norway has what to do. Is that where Leif Erikson, like, was? Or he's Norway or. No, he's got no connect. Norway has nothing to do with this other than being another international sovereign. That's like, the fuck's up with you in Greenland, you know, you don't take somebody else's country, let alone from a NATO member, let alone from an original signatory member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is Denmark. So that's all they said. And then he goes bad on them because of the Nobel. Greenland is the metaphor for everything that Trump is about. I want it. Why? I don't even know really where it is. I don't know who's there. I don't know much about it. I want it. It's like when Jessica Simpson did the one of the first commercials for plasma TVs 1080i. I don't know what it is, but I want it. Same kind of vibe. Okay. And doesn't look as good in jean shorts, although I'd love to see that tested out. Greenland is Trump being Trump. I want it. You give it to me. He is the ugly American. He is that representation the world over that he's just a boorish, obvious, obnoxious ugly in his actions and his intentions. Okay? That is why he is doing this, and it's why it is so upsetting to so many. It is violative of everything we're supposed to be defending around the world. What Mike makes, right? Not on our watch. Offending sovereign boundaries and sovereignty for your own expedience. That's Russia. That's China. That's not America. Until now. The idea that NATO ain't shit without us and you better start treating us that way is one of the most potentially corrosive things that we've seen in the modern era. So what's the upside? The upside is that there are some who believe Trump is right to establish our supremacy. We do give the most we get taken advantage of enough. And if guys are going to come at us, they likely will come over Greenland. And we are going to create our own iron dome, which will be called the golden something because it's Trump. So it's got to be gold. And Greenland's really important, so we have to have complete control of it. So we can do whatever we want and we can stop whatever we want. Now ask yourself, okay, so why do you have to own it? You have one of your biggest bases in Germany, Longstuhl. You didn't have to own Germany to have control over the area in the way that you need. Why can't you just make an agreement? Why can't you just do that? Because it doesn't play as big, as powerful, as dominant. That's what Greenland is. Greenland is a flex support comes from Ethos. Now, Ethos is the quick, easy, comprehensive way to get life insurance. Now, as the head of a household, right, I'm a Gen X guy, which means I'm deep into parenting, deep into partnering, and I'm deep into life. What does that mean? I'm getting older, and I got to protect what I got and who I got. And that means life insurance. 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Could be that, or it could just be luck of the draw that he's just picking on a place where we don't really have to worry about them coming back at us or it being anything other than kind of a sad joke, assuming it doesn't happen. And that takes us to the next part, the tariffs. Tariffs are a very frustrating thing to analyze because not unlike most tax policy, they are not an absolute. They are conditional. Meaning what? Tariffs, where, why, how long it matters. Okay, tariffs good, tariffs bad? Depends. Tax is good, tax is bad? Depends. You can say, no, no, no, no. Taxes suck. Well, unless you want a funded government that can do what it's supposed to do, like protect your ass. Okay, so there's a reason that Jesus said, render under Caesar what is Caesar's one? It was a beautiful illustration of knowing your place, knowing your power, and you know, you can't go against everybody all the time if you want to continue to exist. And it was also dismissing, dismissing the. Of money and worldly objectives. Here we are very much tied to worldly objectives. Tariffs. I'm going to tariff all of you if I don't get the deal I want on Greenland. The president believes that this is just a straight bully move. A bully move, meaning there's really no backlash likely. They just don't. They're not strong enough. They have to do what you want them to do. He is very comfortable in that. That is a condition that would make me, for instance, one of the many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many reasons I could never be dog catcher, let alone anything more in elected office is I don't have it like that. I don't have that kind of naked embrace of power and influence over people. It would make me very uncomfortable to think that there was one person, let alone many, who were just doing what I said to do because they were afra. The president, however, is a different bird and he will tariff because to him, it's like getting paid to be him. It's like you're paying for the privilege of having this relationship with America and someone is not telling him that it is absolutely affecting conditions in our economy. And I have to tell you, one of the metrics that is really ignored that you should look into for yourself. If the tariffs were doing anything like what this president said, there would be two things that are true that would not be. The first one is you would know a hell of a lot more about what all this extra revenue has meant for the deficit and for The US debt. Have you noticed you have heard nothing about all these billions and zillions of dollars that have come in that mean nothing to the US Debt? Where is the President saying, you know, at this rate, I'll have the debt reduced to zero in 10 minutes. Not a word. Why? There must really be nothing there. Now, I'm not saying that no money has come in. I'm saying that there's something else going on. And I'm not saying it's corruption, but I'm saying there's something else going on that they're not even bragging about the impact of what this revenue has meant. Here's the second thing. China had a record year in trade. Wait, what? How? If we are lowering the hammer on them with tariffs, even though he reduced it until he may have to increase it again, depending on their position on Greenland, how did they have a record trade year? Because you've got to know your place. And America is not the only market. So what China did, recording a record trade surplus is shift away from America as a market to develop other places. It's a big world, turns out, and they had a record year. Now you're going to do the same thing to Europe. How will they punish you? They will punish you through erosion, bonds, alliances. Have you noticed that when America goes in someplace, it's always like 15 to 25 countries strong? When I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan during the war on terror, a lot of these countries, they weren't being targeted by terror, but they were there fighting against it with us. Why? That's an alliance. That's why Russia wants NATO to die. That's why Russia loves this Greenland shit, because it can only make NATO weaker.