Hour 3 - Why Greenland Matters

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode Title: Hour 3 – Why Greenland Matters
Date: January 20, 2026
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into President Trump's live press conference, using clips and commentary to discuss the administration's self-assessed successes in its first year, major policy themes, and—centrally—Trump's upcoming appearance at Davos, with a particular focus on the strategic importance of Greenland. The hosts analyze the economic and geopolitical stakes of U.S. interest in Greenland, debate its potential future, and field listener feedback on Trump’s performance. With their signature blend of analysis and banter, the hosts look at why Greenland has become a headline topic and offer context and opinion on America’s latest foreign policy chess move.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. President Trump’s Year One Recap

Economic Achievements

• Trump highlights record highs in the stock market and 401k values, emphasizing effects on ordinary Americans’ savings.
• He touts "$9 trillion added to retirement accounts, savings accounts and 401ks... during the course of 12 months" ([03:10]).
• Claims significant reduction in welfare dependency: over 1.2 million Americans off food stamps, with welfare rolls dropping.
• Asserts a “62% reduction in our trade deficit,” downplaying concerns of tariffs causing inflation, “We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation and he didn’t do tariffs” ([08:47]).
• Major investments announced: “Secured a record-breaking $18 trillion in commitments for new investments... Apple, Nvidia, SoftBank, Oracle...” ([07:15]).

Policy Announcements

• Made car loan interest “tax deductible for U.S. built automobiles only” as an incentive for domestic manufacturing.
• Lists major drug price reductions brokered with pharmaceutical companies—citing drugs now “costing $87 instead of $1,300” ([09:10]).
• Passed the “largest tax cuts in history,” including “no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.”

Memorable Trump Quote

• "Maybe I have bad public relations people." ([14:13])—Trump expresses frustration about lack of media coverage for his administration's successes.

2. Immigration and Crime

• Trump defends ICE agents: “All ICE wants to do is get them out of our country...They’re patriots. And they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who’s a... loser lightweight” ([11:01]).
• References individuals with multiple convictions who remain in the U.S., arguing for stricter deportation: “Convicted 24 times. He’s going to be good here, right? It doesn’t work that way.”
• Minnesota fraud scandal: Alleges $19 billion missing, implicating figures like Ilhan Omar ([11:56]).
• Hosts reinforce the theme: “No American should be walking around wondering if maybe the person…should have been deported, maybe that person is going to rob, murder, carjack, whatever, me.” ([13:38])

3. Economic Commentary & Challenges

• Buck Sexton observes the messaging challenge for the administration: “The challenge for 2026...is communicating things are getting better in the economy without making people feel like you are not acknowledging the way that they feel when they go to the grocery store.” ([23:46])
• Discussion about the Federal Reserve keeping rates high despite positive economic indicators, with Trump and Buck both expressing frustration.

4. Focus on Greenland: Why It Matters

The Davos Preview & European Response

• Clay Travis: “Laying some...groundwork for...discussions in Davos and specifically over Greenland… going to be a bit of a showdown with some of these European bureaucrat types.” ([25:11])
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, via clip: “The sovereignty and integrity of their territory [Greenland] is non-negotiable.” ([26:35])
• Clay smirks: “Well, I mean, everything has a price.” ([26:45])

Strategic Debate

• Buck: “Why does Denmark get to have control over Greenland?...There is basically no defense of Greenland at all. What if Russia decides that they want to go in and occupy that country because of its strategic value?” ([27:10])
• Comparison to Taiwan and South China Sea—concern over major powers taking unguarded territory as shipping lanes open.

Danish and Greenlandic Perspective

• Clay plays Danish PM clip: “If there is an invasion by American troops, it would be a war and we would be fighting…It is our duty to defend our land and our people.” ([28:10])
• Hosts dismiss the idea of military action—“We’re not, there’s not going to be a war... We love Danes.” ([28:41])

The U.S. Case for Acquisition

• Buck: “If we are going to acquire Greenland, it is going to require us to make cash payments to people who live in Greenland and they’re going to vote to be territorially connected to the United States instead of Denmark.” ([29:01])
• Compares Greenland to the U.S. Virgin Islands purchase in 1917: “Why is that not an analogistic example of what could happen with Greenland?” ([32:03])
• Emphasizes the long-term view on value: “The one thing the guy knows is land value development. He is looking at this...for the next 25—next hundred years.” ([29:18])
• Jokes aside: “You can be rich and American or you can be cold and Danish.” ([29:22])

Policy & Consent

• Buck and Clay both stress that any acquisition would require local consent: “There has to be consent of the people that would be governed. There has to be an agreement...” ([30:18])

5. Listener Grades: Trump Year One

• Multiple call-ins give Trump grades:
  • Dan from Oregon: “I would give him an A plus...He’s basically made all these presidents look pretty bad.” ([40:36])
  • Brian from Worcester: “B plus for Trump...A lot of things that haven’t been addressed as far as...the DOJ.” ([41:06])
  • Roger from Arizona: “I would give Trump A for domestic and an A for foreign relations.” ([41:39])
  • Peter from NYC: “I would give President Trump an A. However, I would give Congress [lower marks]... imagine what could happen if the House and Senate got behind Donald Trump.” ([42:09])
  • Gigi: “I’d give Trump a B plus, but even if I gave him an F, I’d still vote for him again. The left is so crazy...out of touch.” ([43:08])

6. Lighter Moments & Personal Anecdotes

• Alaska vs. Greenland Vacation Banter: Pam from Alaska jokes about it being “hurtful if you go visit Greenland before Alaska” ([43:47]).
• Humor about Clay swimming with sharks and unlikely perils of political punditry ([45:26]).

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Trump on Tariffs:
  “We have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income…we have, and by the way, no inflation. So everyone said, oh, tariffs will cause inflation. We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation and he didn’t do tariffs.” – [08:36], Donald Trump

• Trump on ICE and Crime:
  “All ICE wants to do is get them out of our country…They’re patriots. And they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who’s a…loser lightweight.” – [11:01], Donald Trump

• Trump on Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Fraud:
  "I was told that Ilhan OMAR is worth $30 million. She never had a job. She's a crooked congressman." – [12:54], Donald Trump

• Clay on Crime & Immigration:
  “No American should be walking around and dealing with, oh, maybe the person...who's already been arrested and should have been deported, maybe that person is going to rob, murder, carjack, whatever, me.” – [13:38], Clay Travis

• Buck on Territorial Logic:
  “The last asset we bought, 1917 U.S. Virgin Islands. Now we bought all three of these islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in cash. Why is that not an analogistic example of what could happen with Greenland?” – [32:03], Buck Sexton

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic | Speaker(s) | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------------|--------------------|------------| | Trump's economic record/stock markets | Donald Trump | 03:10-09:10| | On ICE, Don Lemon, and immigration crime | Donald Trump | 11:01 | | Minnesota fraud & Ilhan Omar | Donald Trump | 11:56 | | Trump’s PR/media frustration | Donald Trump | 14:10 | | Economic commentary (Fed & messaging) | Buck/Clay | 23:46 | | Ursula von der Leyen: Greenland non-negotiable| von der Leyen | 26:35 | | Strategic rationale for Greenland | Clay/Buck | 27:10-29:18| | Danish PM: “We would defend Greenland” | Danish PM (clip) | 28:10 | | Listener call-ins: Trump grades | Various | 40:36-43:08| | Alaska vs. Greenland banter | Clay/Buck/Pam | 43:47-45:22|

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Closing Thoughts

Clay and Buck guide listeners through the news with a mix of analysis and humor, casting Trump’s focus on Greenland not as a wild idea but as a strategic consideration with historical precedent. The hosts are skeptical of alarmism from Europe and Denmark, maintaining the importance of negotiation and local consent. Throughout, they revisit Trump’s first-year claims, take listener evaluations, and keep the tone irreverent—with plenty of football and personal asides. This episode makes a case that what happens in Greenland matters far beyond the Arctic Circle, with big-picture implications for America’s global posture and security.

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Transcript

[Donald Trump]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Donald Trump]

I didn't know it at the time.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

I think we should.

[Clay Travis]

All right, let's do it. Let's hear from the President. Go to it live.

[Donald Trump]

The. Actually, the 11 months, because this was done on 11 months. Now we're. Now we are actually officially 12 months as of today, 52 all time record highs. That means 401k did great. I have people see me all the time, policemen that guard us really well and got to know him a little bit. And they said, sir, you're making me look so good. My 401k is through the roof. My wife thinks I'm the greatest genius, that I'm a financial genius like Warren Buffett. He told me that. He said, I think they have better returns than Warren Buffett right now. But he said, all my life my wife has been criticizing me for not being smart financially. Now all of a sudden she's. She loves me more. But we added $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts. Saving, saving. Many people, I mean, they were going out of business. Think of it. We added $9 trillion of value to retirement accounts, savings accounts and 401 s. That's during the course of 12 months. And I think it's probably 11 months because I don't think they have it for the 12. They have it for the 11, added $9 trillion of value, lifted more than 1.2 million Americans off food stamps in one year. They would have had another 1.2 million. We would have had. Welfare would have gone up. And Instead of investing $18 trillion in our country, now it's probably more than that. But $18 trillion and having thousands of plants being built all over the country, you would have had thousands of plants closing all over the country and you would have had disinvestment and you would have had welfare going way up. You know, if you look at SNAP, take a look at SNAP. What happened with that? It was at $7 billion and it came out to over $51 billion. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The past administration, they had no clue, or they were really bad, but they basically had no clue. But they did have a concept. I mean, they're still trying to sell the idea of men playing in women's sports. You saw that in the Supreme Court. I mean, some of those justices were fighting for them, too. They were fighting for them. But you saw that just the other day in the Supreme Court. Men playing in women's sport doesn't work. Secured a record breaking $18 trillion in commitments for new investments. Apple, Nvidia, SoftBank, Oracle, TSMC, Johnson Johnson, Eli Lilly Company, Micron, AstraZeneca, General Motors, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, GE, Aerospace, many, many others. I left a Ford plant a week ago in Michigan that they were going to close two years ago and now they just announced that they're going 24 hours around the clock making cars. Terrorists did it. I don't know what the Supreme Court's going to do. I think to me it reads so plainly. Couldn't be plainer. You're allowed to do a license. Tariff is probably less severe than what a license could be. But think of it. You're allowed to do a license and then they have a clause at the end. Something to the effect or what is necessary. Something to that effect. And what is necessary was tariffs. Know where there's a case, even there? But we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars and if we lose that case, it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back. I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people. But we're waiting for that case anxiously. And we have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income. You know, we have, and by the way, no inflation. So everyone said, oh, tariffs will cause inflation. We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation and he didn't do tariffs. We had a huge problem. We had, we have a 62% reduction in our trade deficit. So if you had a 1% reduction, a normal president would have a 1%, 2% reduction. Everybody would be high fiving at a 62% reduction. Next year we won't have a trade deficit. We secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much. To me, I think this might be the biggest thing of all. We get zero talk about it. The New York Times had a story way in the back of the paper, a little story about it. I think it's the biggest thing there is when you talk about health care. Drug prices will go down more than ever before for any country because we was. We were priced at such a level that we were subsidizing the entire world. Big place in the world. We were paying 10, 12, 13 times more than other countries. 13 times more. Not 13%, 13 times more. A pill that was selling in London for $10 would sell in New York for $130. That's 13 times more than that even. But we Secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much as 300, 400, 500 and even 600%, including with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Nova, Nordesk, Gilead Sciences, EMD, Cerenio and many others. If you look at some of the prices that are coming down, where a price would come down $1,300 coming down to $87. Think of it. So something that was costing $1,300 is now costing $87 and the fake news doesn't want to write about it. That's why I do this. I don't like to do this to be. But I do it because. Got to get the word out. We signed one big beautiful bill, I call it the great big beautiful bill delivering the largest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. We made interest on car loans tax deductible for U. S Built automobiles only. So if you build the. If you buy an automobile built in the United States, we're not doing it for Germany and Canada and different places. We do it only if it's built here. We want them to be built here. A lot of the Canadian auto plants are closing and they're moving into the United States. Same thing with Mexico, same thing with Germany and same thing with Japan and other countries. They're moving into the United States because of tariffs, because they don't want to pay the tariffs. It's too much. They can't pay the tariffs. So they're coming here. Nothing different than what other smart countries did. But it works better for us under my leadership. It's not done properly, but it's done properly. We have again, more, more plants being built than at any time in the history of our country passed the largest spending cuts in American history. And that was true in my first, you know, we had a tremendous first term also. We rebuilt our military. We had.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I think, I think we're going to hop back in here. We've got Trump talking about the first year a lot. I was hoping he'd give us a little more of a preview into what's going on, what he plans to do in Davos with Greenland.

[Buck Sexton]

So that's, I'm thinking buck, he's probably going to take questions and that's where we're likely to have some fireworks. We've been pulling some cuts. In the event that you missed it. Here's what I think are the most newsworthy cuts. Producer Greg has been grabbing them. Here's Trump cut 32 saying all ICE wants to do is remove criminals and they're getting abused by guys that are losers like don lemon. Cut 32.

[Donald Trump]

So this is what the people are trying to protect. Because all ICE wants to do is get them out of our country. Bring them to their prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came. That's all they want to do. They're patriots. And they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who's a, you know, loser lightweight. I saw him, the way he walked in that church, it was terrible. I have such respect for that pastor. He was so calm. He was so nice. He was just accosted. What they did in that church was horrible Yesterday. Look at 24 convictions. 24 times convicted. Did not charges. These are convictions. So he comes from outside the country. Do you think he's going to be good here? Convicted 24 times. He's going to be good here, right? It doesn't work that way.

[Buck Sexton]

All right, Buck, here's another one to cut 33. Talking about the fraud in Minnesota and Elon Omar, more on this Trump in the press briefing just a few moments.

[Donald Trump]

Ago, nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota. Given to a large degree, but by Somalians, they've taken it. Somalians, can you imagine? And they don't do it. A lot of very low IQ people, they don't do it. Other people work it out and they get them money and they go out and buy Mercedes Benzes and they come from here. They have no money. They never had money. They never had a life. They never had a government. They never had a country because there's basically no country. Somalia is not even a country. They don't have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it's considered just about the worst in the world. They come here and they become rich and they don't have a job. I was told that Ilhan OMAR is worth $30 million. She never had a job. She's a crooked congressman.

[Clay Travis]

It's remarkable. Now, the 30 million figure, we went over this, just to be fair, it's from the congressional finance disclosure they have to make. And it's 6 to 30 million. So. Or 5 to 30 million, something like that. So that could be 30, but it could also be substantially less. But I don't even know how she made the millions from her husband somehow. Venture capital. He's very, very good at that. We are told. Clay on the start of this press conference, though, this is something that I think also is going to be a problem for Democrats. He keeps showing, he kept showing these effectively wanted posters of these guys. And they're wanted for rape, wanted for murder, wanted for. Think about a heinous crime, serious felons who aren't supposed to be our problem. Think about this.

[Buck Sexton]

They're not even.

[Clay Travis]

They're not supposed to be our problem, first and foremost, as a public safety threat. None of us, no American, should be walking around and dealing with, oh, maybe the person who was never even supposed to be in this country, who's already been arrested and should have been deported, maybe that person is going to rob, murder, carjack, whatever, me. But even beyond that, even if you put them in prison, we shouldn't be paying their bills.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

Paying for their healthcare, paying for their food, paying to keep them in this prison. They are someone else's problem. And that's why Trump spent the first, you know, like five minutes just holding up all these wanted posters.

[Buck Sexton]

I think what you're seeing here a little bit, Buck, is a preview for what his State of the Union is going to sound like. President Trump, to me, seems frustrated at his ability to communicate what has been done. In fact, here's a quote. Maybe I have bad public relations people. President Trump says as he asked why he's not getting more credit for what's going on in the economy. And so I think he's starting to run through this litany, this roster of things that he's proud of that they've done in year one. And it almost feels like a State of the Union address as much as it does a White House press briefing. Now, we will see when or if he opens up the floor to questions, because sometimes Buck, as you know, he'll stand up there and answer questions for an hour or more about everything under the sun. And that often is a window into what he is thinking and often makes news in a substantial amount of different directions. So that is what's going on right now. We are continuing to monitor this and we will keep you updated. By the way, Fox News reporting that the Department of Justice has served grand jury subpoenas to Tim Walls and Jacob Fry, the governor and mayor of Minnesota and Minneapolis, respectively. So we'll follow that, too, as to whether or not there may be an investigation into their potential responsibility, criminal culpability surrounding all the fraud and crimes that have been committed in Minneapolis in recent history.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Donald Trump]

We ended Biden stagflation. We were in stagflation. That's a disaster. That's far worse than inflation. As you know, he had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years. Pick your choice but they had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. We, we have it right down to a normal number. Now we're going to get it even a little bit lower. Created super high. What we've done with, with growth is incredible. We created super high economic growth and America is booming. It's booming. There are thousands of businesses right now that are being built. Many of the biggest factories in the world are being built right in our country. They're not going to other countries, they're leaving other countries. Fourth quarter GDP is on track to pass perhaps much more than 5% growth. And that's despite the fact that we had a Democrat shutdown. They shut down our country and we had 5%. Nobody in this room has ever heard about 5%. I think it could be 20% if we do it right. If we don't, every time we have good numbers, they raise interest rates. It shouldn't do. In the old days, if you had good numbers, they'd lower interest rates or they wouldn't do anything. Here, they try and kill it. They always try and kill success. Over the last 20, 25 years, that's the way in the old days, if you had good numbers, the market would go through the roof. Today, if you have good numbers, the market goes down. But by the way, we've had the best stock market in history, the best 401ks in history, and we inherited a mess. The numbers that we inherited are way, were way up and now we brought them, almost all of them, way down.

[Clay Travis]

Well, he's got a lot that. On the economic side, I think Clay goes to support his contention that things are going really well. As we've discussed Clay, we've got a lot of challenges here still ahead on the economic front, but Trump has much that he can point to that is particularly, I think, on the positive side of a ledger. And that's what he's doing. And I think his frustration is, well, one with the Fed, with rates big time. And I think that's fair, like, really objectively I can, I can point to a whole range or I talk to a whole range of people who work in finance and are very involved in the markets and they'll tell you, yeah, they've just waited too long to lower these rates. And it's just, and I don't understand. That's perhaps as much art as it is science. For some people, it's very much a judgment call. But I think his frustration comes from he's doing the things that can be done. Like what the people that feel frustrated by the Trump economy. What do they want him to do that he's not trying to do? That's what I would, that's what I would want to ask, like what is the lever that he could pull? Tariffs is the one thing that some people were maybe iffy about. Tariffs seems to be that's not causing the rise in prices we were told about. It is bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars to the American economy. So it seems like Trump is doing the things he needs to do.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, I think the challenge for 2026, especially over the next several months, is going to be communicating things are getting better in the economy without making people feel like you are not acknowledging the way that they feel when they go to the grocery store. And balancing that is a challenge, which is why I come back to it takes a while for these impacts to be felt across the board. And that's what we're waiting on now.

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. So Trump is, he's freestyling right now. He's just letting it rip up at the podium. We're going to bring in some of the highlights of it because he's weaving for sure kind of going in and out of the of different things. And I think he's laying some of the groundwork for his discussions in Davos and specifically over Greenland, which I think is very much going to be, it's going to be a bit of a showdown with some of these European bureaucrat types. For example, Clay here is cut 18. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, you know of the, of the von der Leyens, Yes. Here she is saying that Greenland is non negotiable. Play 18. Ladies and gentlemen, we consider the people of the United States not just our.

[Donald Trump]

Allies, but our friends. And plunging us into a downward spiral would only aid the very adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of the strategic landscape. So our response will be unflinching, united and proportional. But beyond this, we have to be.

[Clay Travis]

Strategic about how we approach this issue. And this is why we are working on a package to support Arctic security.

[Donald Trump]

First principle, full solidarity with Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

[Clay Travis]

The sovereignty and integrity of their territory is non negotiable. Well, I mean, everything has a price.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, why does Denmark get to have control over Greenland? If it's so bad for non green landers to be in control of in any way, their future, why is Denmark allowed to still have this asset? And buck, let me just what President Trump is looking towards is I think, a future where, if you saw what Russia did with Ukraine, where they went in and they decided that they were going to take that territory, and he's asking a very valid question. There is basically no defense of Greenland at all. What if Russia decides that they want to go in and occupy that country because of its strategic value, which Russia.

[Clay Travis]

Has done numerous times in the last two decades to countries that are sovereign nations with real militaries? I might.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, you just came back from Taiwan. I mean, what China has done is slowly try to, especially in the South China Sea, take over shipping lanes, restrict who's allowed to transport and ingress and egress in those areas? Why is it crazy to think that Russia, as these Arctic shipping lanes open up, might not engage in aggressive behavior and start to try to take over? And I think what Trump's looking forward towards is trying to limit that from ever becoming a reality.

[Clay Travis]

Here is a Danish parliament member, among the most well known because none of us know any of them. Rasmus Jarlov.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, I've always been a fan of the Jarlov family.

[Clay Travis]

I celebrate Rasmus whole catalog. Here he is, cut 17.

[Donald Trump]

We will, of course, defend Greenland. If there is an invasion by American troops, it would be a war and we would be fighting against each other. We know that the Americans are stronger than us and you have a much stronger military than ours. But it is our duty to defend our land and our people and the 57,000 Danish citizens that live in Greenland that have made it Absolutely crystal clear that they don't want to be taken by the United States. We have an obligation to fight for those people and our forces will do that. But it would be a disaster also for the United States.

[Clay Travis]

Dude, we're not, there's not going to be a war.

[Donald Trump]

Like, what is this?

[Clay Travis]

You know, this is reckless stuff. No one's shooting it. We love Danes. Danes are great people. And Greenlanders, we don't really know them very well. At least I don't. Have you ever met someone from Greenland?

[Buck Sexton]

I don't think so. I mean, there's not very many of them.

[Clay Travis]

We have Greenland listeners right now, but they're on the, they're on the Space force base.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, look, here is what's going to happen. If we are going to acquire Greenland, it is going to require us to make cash payments to people who live in Greenland and they're going to vote to be territorially connected to the United States instead of Denmark.

[Clay Travis]

You can be rich and American or you can be cold and Danish.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes, that's a good analogy. Also, Denmark is spending, based on my reading, around $1 billion a year. Because as we started, I think this week or last week, maybe it was, we were talking about this. The primary economic value right now of Greenland is shrimp. Now, I'm a big fan of shrimp. I bet a lot of you out there like to eat shrimp. It's not exactly the, the greatest foundation for economic viability in the 21st century to say, hey, what is your country known for? Well, we, we, we go out and we harvest a lot of shrimp from the sea. And so it's all these mineral rights going forward. Again, I, I just, I don't think Trump is getting enough credit. The one thing the guy knows is land value development. He is looking at this and he's thinking, not for the next five years. He's thinking for the next 25next hundred years. This is a decision that makes rational sense to him.

[Clay Travis]

Well, why also you think of something like, like Greenland or, you know, the Falklands, which they did fight a war over with Argentina a while ago back in, what, the early 80s between the Brits and the Argentinians. Margaret, Margaret Thatcher was not messing around. She also had a bit of a find out, you know, mess around and find out foreign policy approach. But these are places that are self governed but have some connection to another country for their defense. Like, we have to pretend like this is an integral part of this, this nation's sovereignty. Again, I would not advocate, I would not support Trump just taking this Stuff by force. There has to be consent of the people that would be governed. There has to be an agreement, there has to be negotiation for this. But it's like I said, I mean you're. We got, we got a man here who is really the legal eagle of the US Virgin Island.

[Buck Sexton]

There's not very many of us that are actual lawyers licensed in United States.

[Clay Travis]

One day one of you is going to be on a cruise and something's going to go awry. You know, you're going to have some problem and you're going to be calling Mr. Clay Travis here on the radio show, asking him for advice because he knows his way around the legal system in the U. S. Virgin Islands. But if, if Russia, because they wanted a warm place for their billionaires, for the oligarchs, well, Russia is a bad idea because we don't, we got all these problems with Russia. But I'm just, if some foreign country said, you know what we're going to give you, I don't know, a trillion dollars for the US Virgin Islands and we'll provide all defense and whatever. I think we should hear them out. Depends on what the, who the country is. Russia is a bad example because strategically that's a problem for us. But if the UK if the UK for some reason they're on their asses financially, they couldn't do this. But if they offered us a trillion dollars to take the rest of the.

[Buck Sexton]

Virgin Islands, yeah, we're going to merge.

[Clay Travis]

I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. That's going to be okay for me.

[Buck Sexton]

The BVI and the usvi. But I think what's more likely to happen in that situation and the USVI is actually a good analogy for Greenland, there's around 95,000 people, ish, a little bit less than 100 in St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. Okay, I was a citizen of the United States of Virgin Islands. We are a territory that means we can't vote for president, but we are subject to U.S. jurisdiction. There's 57,000 people in Greenland. The last asset we bought, 1917 U.S. virgin Islands. Now we bought all three of these islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in cash. Why is that not an analogistic example of what could happen with Greenland? And by the way, the reason we wanted the US Virgin Islands to my understanding, is to have a basically shipping depot for transit purposes as it pertained to, to assets, strategic assets in Latin America and also then for going across to, to Europe for shipping lanes, everything else. So I am a territorial lawyer in the US Virgin Islands. Why would it not make sense to have Greenland under the exact same auspices? And I believe what American Samoa, we've talk got all the territories that are uniquely the insular cases. For those of you who really want to dive into the legal Proceedings of the U.S. virgin Islands back in the day, there's an entire Supreme Court precedent surrounding these territories which are not states, which are not allowed to vote for president of the United States, for instance, that are still subject to American jurisdiction. So you have some form of independence, but you're under the fabric of the United States protection. Why would that not make sense for Greenland? And again, I come back to the way this would work is we would pay every green lender a certain amount of money and they would decide that they no longer want to be affiliated with Denmark. And that seems eminently rational to me. They would have better life, they would have better economic situation. And we're going to hear that in great detail, I think, starting tomorrow when President Trump, I don't think the timing on this is an accident, knowing that he's going to go to Davos and be speaking to the entirety of the world. All right, when we come back, we will take some of your talk back. We will close up shop on the Tuesday edition of the program as President Trump continues to talk in front of the media here on the one year anniversary of Trump 2.0. And I want to tell you going into this weekend, AFC Championship game, NFC Championship game, Buck and I are in Miami. We went last night to watch Indiana and Miami play a stellar by the.

[Clay Travis]

Way, those of you who are mad at me, if you go with my football analysis, you get what you get. Okay, I know I was wrong on Miami, but it was close. If that one guy had caught the ball instead of the other guy at the end.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, if there hadn't been an interception, if we hadn't had the block kick for a touchdown. That was a implosion by the Miami special teams. But we got the AFC and the NFC both playing Sunday in what should be epic games. The Seahawks going up against the Rams. And you've got that's the NFC side. And then on the AFC side, you've got what should be a really interesting matchup with the Broncos hosting the New England Patriots. I have got some picks for you on the NFC side. Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold. I think there's going to be some points scored out in Seattle, each of them to throw more than one half touchdown pass. Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold each more than one and a half touchdown passes in Seattle and if I am right that pays out at 2.75 to 1. Appreciate price picks last night hosting us in their suite for the game. All of their staff were there. We met a lot of awesome people. They have a great business, they've done phenomenal job building it out. All 50 states. You get $50 in credits when you play $5 go to pricepicks.com code clay that is pricepicks.com code clay $50 in credits in your account when you play $5 use my name Clay. You can play in California, you can play in Texas, you can play in Georgia, you can play in Florida where we are right now. All 50 states can play along 2.75 to 1 Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold the NFC championship game to each throw more than one and a half touchdown passes. Get hooked up today. That's PricePix.com code clay keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the team 1947 podcast Clay and Buck highlight Trump replays from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Birch Gold Group welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton show let's get to some of your talkbacks. A lot of them rolling in on variety of different topics. Let's start with, let's see CC Dan out in Oregon, we were saying it's one year. What grade would you give the president? A lot of you weighing in. Here's Dan.

[Clay Travis]

I would say all in all, I.

[Buck Sexton]

Would give him an A plus. He's accomplished more stuff in his first year in presidents all the way back.

[Donald Trump]

Into the Bush administration.

[Clay Travis]

He's basically made all these presidents look pretty bad. He's kind of destroyed their legacies and he's accomplished stuff that all of them.

[Buck Sexton]

Talked about, never did.

[Donald Trump]

He got it done and he didn't screw around doing it.

[Clay Travis]

I give him a A plus all the way.

[Buck Sexton]

Brian in Worcester, Mass. DD he's got this to say.

[Clay Travis]

I'm going to go with a B plus for Trump. I mean, I fully support everything he.

[Buck Sexton]

Does, but I think there's a lot.

[Clay Travis]

Of things that haven't been addressed as.

[Buck Sexton]

Far as like the DOJ going after.

[Clay Travis]

All the people who were in on the whole hiding Biden's senility, all of his auto pen stuff, which should be rolled back, which hasn't been Epstein file stuff. There's a lot of things that the DOJ hasn't addressed that should have been. So I'll go with a solid B.

[Buck Sexton]

Plus E E. Roger out in Arizona, KFYI radio. Here's his take.

[Clay Travis]

I would give Trump A for domestic and an A for foreign relations. I just wish he would keep baiting the left and the media to fall into his little verbal traps that he can make. And he's so good at EE is.

[Buck Sexton]

Peter from New York City, W O R Radio. He's got a President Trump review as well. What grade would he give him?

[Donald Trump]

I would give President Trump an A.

[Clay Travis]

However, I would give Congress. Dan, you know, imagine what could happen.

[Donald Trump]

If the House and Senate got behind Donald Trump instead of fighting him.

[Clay Travis]

We'd be light years ahead.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, I think this is going to be one of the challenges that's out there is whoever follows Trump. If it's going to be J.D. vance or Marco Rubio or someone in the Trump ilk, then there's a lot that Trump has done that will be maintained and will be built on. The challenge is Buck. If we don't maintain control in 2028, then you're going to see the next Democrat roll in with his or her pen and they're going to start immediately wiping out the accomplishments of President Trump, just like we saw President Trump do within the first month for Joe Biden.

[Clay Travis]

F. Oh, sorry. We did. Peter. Where's gg? That's what I'm looking for. GG Hit it. I'd give Trump a B plus, but.

[Donald Trump]

Even if I gave him an F, I'd still vote for him again.

[Clay Travis]

The left is so crazy, so weird. So how can you explain it?

[Donald Trump]

Out of touch.

[Clay Travis]

There's just no way you can go.

[Donald Trump]

Back to those crazies.

[Clay Travis]

Now. We've got one from Anchorage, Alaska. KK Pam, let's hear it. Hello. Did I.

[Buck Sexton]

No, you were.

[Clay Travis]

I'm so tempted to Explain to Gavin.

[Buck Sexton]

Newsom what pathetic really is.

[Clay Travis]

But I'm going to keep it light. Clay, it's going to be hurtful if.

[Donald Trump]

You go visit Greenland before Alaska.

[Clay Travis]

I'm going to tell you something, and this is, this is, this is the. The honest truth. Pam, I was talking to Clay yesterday about helping him because I've already been to Alaska. I love the great state of Alaska. Helping Clay to pull together a fantastic trip for him, his wife and his kids as boys to go to Alaska. I think they got to go this summer. I think they got to go to Alaska. Maybe, maybe they do the cruise situation up there. Maybe they go to a nice lodge. Clay can pretend to fly fish for 10 minutes before he just goes with old school fishing. Everyone does that.

[Buck Sexton]

By the way, this is 100% true. On Sunday night, one of the people we were at dinner with is involved in travel planning and I was grilling her all about Alaska. My wife wants to go. My oldest son has talked about how he wants to go. I get it. It would be quite the slap in the face if somehow I ended up in Greenland before I went to Alaska's not wrong, Clay.

[Donald Trump]

Clay's.

[Clay Travis]

Clay's really setting himself up for some great stuff here because he's going to do the Al. Alcatraz swim because he's not worried about the sharks, you know, and, and, and he thinks he's faster than a grizzly bear in a foot race. So he's going to check that out when he's in Alaska.

[Buck Sexton]

I will say this. There's a lot of people, it seems like, getting attacked by sharks lately, including been some bites, including people swimming in big groups, which I was always told protected you. And everybody was like, oh, if you're swimming in a big group, you don't ever have to worry about something. This woman, you saw this. I sent you the story. This woman in a big swim just vanished. And they didn't know what happened to her. It turns out that she got eaten by a great white.

[Clay Travis]

Yep.

[Buck Sexton]

And my concern on the Alcatraz swim.

[Clay Travis]

Is, oh, concerns now.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm not, not concerned. I'm not concerned about making it it. I'm concerned about getting eaten. If you were a shark and if you were watching this great mass of people, really good swimmers, I would look like a wounded seal because I'm so far behind everybody else. These triathletes, these Riley Gaines extraordinary swimmers, that they would think this is the one that I should go get because I don't have to attack in en masse. This huge group of swimmers. I just go get the wounded seal and I just, I feed off of them. And so I'm increasingly concerned that I might get eaten and that's not a good place to be. So I. I'm less concerned. You know, when I was in the Virgin Islands, there was a one and a quarter mile swim. The water is nice and calm in Megan's Bay and my wife said this is where you should prove that you can swim in a mile and a quarter because you're not probably going to get eaten by a shark. Although they did just have a Virgin island shark attack. But in Megan's Bay, I feel pretty safe and I could prove that I could swim the mile and a quarter and I would be fine. So my wife is concerned. She just texted me there's way too many sharks. She's worried that I would get eaten in San Francisco Bay. And some days she might welcome that, but most days I think she wouldn't. We'll be back tomorrow.

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