Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump OFF THE RAILS In RAMBLING Press Conference

Episode Date: January 10, 2026

A reporter asked Trump about Greenland and the ICE shooting. His answer was basically incoherent. Tommy and Dan react. Go to https://www.cookunity.com/CROOKED for 50% off your first order. Thanks to CookUnity for supporting the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On Friday, President Trump sat down with a bunch of, uh, big oil executives to decide how to carve up Venezuela's oil resources going forward. And after the ritualistic ass kissing and speeches, President Trump took questions from some reporters, which is when it got really weird. So this first clip, Dan, is President Trump talking about the United States taking Greenland by force if necessary. Let's watch. I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way.

But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way. And I'm a man. And by the way, I'm a fan of Denmark, too. I have to tell you. And, you know, they've been very nice to me. I'm a big fan. But, you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land.

I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also. But we need that because if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers. There are Chinese destroyers and bigger. There are Russian submarines all over the place. We're not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. And that's what they're going to do. if we don't. So we're going to be doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the more

difficult way. There's just so much to unpack there, Dan. Where do we begin? Let's start with this. I bet there's a lot of right-wingerers who call themselves Heritage Americans who would be surprised to learn that a boat landing on some territory 500 years ago doesn't mean it's yours. Yeah, it seems, but by that definition, we'd have to really revisit a lot of American history, probably maybe in a good way. Yeah. Just it may flower erasure here from Donald Trump. Absolutely crazy. should just point out, so Trump is threatening a military invasion of Greenland there. It's just worth noting that the Prime Minister of Denmark, a bunch of our top European allies have said in

statements this week that if Trump took Greenland by force through annexation or some other means, that would completely unravel NATO. Like those are the stakes of what we're talking about. And the New York Times asked Trump about those stakes like two days ago in the Oval Office during their interview. And he acknowledged like, yeah, it might be a choice. And he just doesn't to care. Can you help me understand, just not like the idiocy of Trump, like what would be the strategic upside to owning Greenland that is not available to us right now with it being owned by a close ally? I sincerely don't know. I mean, so under this treaty from the early 1950s, the United States has the option of putting more U.S. troops on Greenland soil. There's a bunch of bases

there that we used to have troops at that are now closed, we could put more U.S. service numbers there if Trump was worried about the threat from Russia and China as the Arctic melts. I guess you could argue that there could be minerals, there could be oil or gas, etc. But my understanding, and look, it's a very facile one, is that actually getting at those resources under, you know, tons and tons of ice is quite difficult. My takeaway from the way Trump described it is he was like a sense of own, like he said, owning it just gives you a sense of satisfaction. Like, it's clear to me that what this is about for him is he thinks territorial expansion is the way to leave his mark

on history. And Greenland is like three times the size of Texas. So he thinks it would be a pretty big mark on history. Like that is my, I think, takeaway. And so I'm glad we're having this conversation, maybe not for the listeners and the viewers, but for me, because I got a lot of questions for you about this. The nice way, as we understand it based on a reporter from earlier this week, is that he would give up to $100,000 to every adult in Greenland to try to buy their love. That would be, according to the math, I did about $5 billion of taxpayer dollars going directly to Greenland, which I'm sure would be very popular. The forest method would be, we just land some troops there and say it's a plan to fly against

say it's ours. Yeah, just essentially annex it. Because there's no one, no one's going to fight us back, right? Like we're not going to be at war with Denmark over this, right? No. I mean, well, the crazy thing is, I mean, Denmark's a NATO ally. So what happens? The United States invades a NATO allies.

ally NATO. Does NATO have to fight? How does Article 5 work here? So then we have to fight ourselves, right? It sort of doesn't work. And that's why they're saying this just sort of unravels NATO as we know it. I mean, this is bananas. This is truly, truly bananas for, like the Venezuela thing is not. So we've talked to the Venezuela thing. But you can kind of sort of make an argument there about why someone might want that. Oil, Maduro's a bad guy. Obviously, the way they're doing this is all ass backwards. But the Greenland thing is just truly fantastical. Like, It makes no sense. Someone mentioned to him a couple years ago, and he is seized on it, and he's obsessed with it.

The one theory that I've seen that I really liked in is there's something called the Mercator projection, which is a way of drawing the earth on a flat map by projecting the globe onto a cylinder, and then you unroll it, right? And what's useful about that is it kind of keeps the angles accurate, and it keeps the lines of navigation constant. But the drawback is that areas near the poles are dismal. distorted. So Greenland on an old school map looks massive. It looks like it's like the size of the continent of Africa. So there's some people who think that Greenland's, Trump thinks Greenland is really that big because he's an old man with a pickled brain. And, you know, all he's drawing

from is the old maps. He's a real cartography fan that he is, maybe. That's why. I like that theory too. I would just want to point out, his shoulder pads in his suit looked absurd in that clip. He looked looked like the talking head stop making sense video. Did you notice that? Yeah, he looked at the whole, Well, his posture, who's actually nothing similar from mine at this exact moment, but his posture was, he's just very slumpy. Yeah, very slumpy. It seemed pretty tired here. He also was apparently wearing a lapel pin of himself. He was asked about this by Fox News, and he said it's a happy Trump pin.

Okay. Cool. I'd like to you to imagine if Barack Obama wore a pin of himself at a press conference, how that would go on. The amount of Republicans are going to be wearing happy Trump pins around Congress is going to be quite embarrassing. Lindsay Graham just found his new, his new. This new love. Pod Save America is brought to you by Cook Unity. I've been using Cook Unity forever for years, long before they ever sponsored this podcast.

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The state officials there have said that the FBI is not sharing evidence with them. Typically, they would conduct a joint investigation, as you know. Do you believe that the FBI should be sharing evidence with state officials in Minnesota? Well, normally I would, but they're crooked officials. I mean, Minneapolis and Minnesota, what a beautiful place, but it's being destroyed. It's got an incompetent governor fool. I mean, he's a stupid person. It's a very corrupt state.

I feel that I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. it nobody's won it for since richard nixon won it many many years ago i won it all three times in my opinion and it's a corrupt state a corrupt voting state and the republicans ought to get smart and demand on voter ID they ought to demand maybe same day voting and all of the other things that you have to have to have a safe election but i won minnesota three times and i didn't get credit for it okay again a lot to unpack there so let's let's start with this investigation point and then get to the electoral claim.

I guess, Dan, it's like in some sense, maybe it's like, okay, it's useful for him just to tell us on the front end that this is going to be a rigged investigation that he's not going to work with anyone in Minnesota state law enforcement because they just don't want there to be any chance of this ICE officer getting prosecuted for what was, you know, to me, looked like a murder. But what did you make of that? Yeah, I mean, what Trump said is just basically a reiteration of basically the point that J.D. Vance made. yesterday. JD Vance has already declared this ICE officer's innocence, has declared that anyone who thinks that the ice officer is guilty of anything or this shooting was inappropriate to hate law enforcement, be anti-American, be siding with domestic terrorists, whatever else, and J.D. Vance believes, contrary to all law, essentially, that the ICE officer has full immunity for what they do. And so I guess it is somewhat helpful for them just to say the part out loud that we're not waiting

around for there to be some sort of typical investigation here where the feds would be involved. Now, that does not mean that the state officials and the county officials in Minnesota cannot investigate, but it will be harder because they have the full force of the federal government protecting this officer from any sort of accountability, not even just from being, like, facing criminal punishment, but just answering questions about it for evidence to actually get the gun, right? They're probably going to need a, they're probably going to have to go to court, and the court's going to have to weigh this. It'll be, you know, an interesting case, to say the least.

Yeah, literally, like, right before we started recording, I saw an article in the Daily Mail, where the Daily Mail reporters saw a bunch of federal agents in the empty home of this ICE shooter, like getting out his belongings, basically clearing out his house, and there's some question of, like, why they seem to be evacuating this man. His name is Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot Renee Good,

why they're sort of... I imagine the... he is probably fears for his safety. For sure. I think there's a question of whether he also fears prosecution from local authorities. Yeah, of course, of course. And are the people who should, if there's an actual investigation, there would be potential evidence there, like maybe the clothes he was wearing or something like that, that his buddies

should not be packing for him somewhat, the law enforcement, who aren't, the investigators should be looking at that first. Yeah. Okay. So, Dan, on this electoral point, I mean, it's just fascinating. to watch the election lies kind of inexorably grow. Now he says he won Minnesota three times, I guess. Like in 2028, do you think we're going to be saying Trump's going to be saying he won, like,

Vermont and Massachusetts? Yeah, I don't think there's a, he's never been a state that Trump's admitted he lost. He claims he would have won California if there wasn't all, you know, mail balloting and all the other stuff. I mean, Minnesota was, I looked at this, was relatively close in 2016. It's about a point in a half. There was obviously no evidence that Trump actually won it. Biden won it by a little north of seven.

And then Kamala Harris won by four and a half. The idea that Trump actually won these states is he is, it's truly delusional. And when you watch, you listen to that answer. It's like, it's a serious question asked about a serious matter. And he immediately just starts vomiting up stuff that leads right into this delusional fantasy that he won Minnesota. Like if your uncle talk like that at the Christmas, you know, the holiday dinner table, your family would have a meeting about like what to do about their health care. It's like it is very, it is, it comes office quite unwell.

Yeah, I mean, he's, yeah, he has a question about an investigation into the shooting of an American citizen and obviously immediately makes it about himself. It's just like the classic Trump thing. Not surprising for a man wearing a pin with his own face on it. Yeah, well said. Fox News is Peter Ducey also asked the president if he had seen any evidence to back up Vice President J.D. Vance's claim that Renee Good was part of some left-wing radical network. Here's his answer.

The vice president yesterday suggested that Renee Good, who was killed by this ICE officer, was part of a broad left-wing network. What has your team told you about this broad-left-wing network? Who is in charge of it? Who's part of it? What's it called? Well, I haven't seen the vice president's statement, but he's generally very accurate. I hate to say, look, I watched that yesterday, and there were a lot of different forms to it.

But there was a woman screaming, shame, shame, shame, shame. shame, shame. She was a agitator, probably a paid agitator, but in my opinion she was an agitator, a very high-level agitator, so professional she wouldn't stop screaming. I said, this isn't a normal situation.

This is a professional troublemaker because you heard it and I had it. Now, I will say this, the news sort of turned her down, turned her off because you're trying to watch. She was so loud and so crazy. And

just not normal. When somebody sees something like that, they don't go screaming and screaming and the same words. I don't really know what he's talking about, Dan. I was just going to ask you that. Yeah, so, like, I've watched these videos. There are certainly people, like, after the shooting,

saying things like shame to these ice officers. René Good wasn't saying any of those things. She was like, she literally said, like, that's okay, man, I don't hate you. Like, those we literally have seen her last words. Yeah, it's I mean, he is operating on, with very, very little information. He doesn't really know what he's talking about. I mean, theoretically, in a normal

world, like even put aside whether the basic shred of human decency that it would take to actually care about someone dying, he doesn't even take any part of this seriously where as the, you know, is the person in charge of the Justice Department to tell us all the time to actually try to accurately describe what's happening. It doesn't show up in any of the video. So it's just like not clear what piece of like right wing content made it into his field of vision over the last 24 hours that made him say that.

Like I don't think he's watched the videos. I think that's pretty clear. Yeah. We know that New York Times showed it for him and he was sort of horrible situation. But yeah, I mean, again, we know that Renee Good, some of her last words that we heard were on tape. And she says, that's fine, dude.

I'm not mad at you. And she says it in a totally nice, normal known to Jonathan Ross, the size officer, who then shoots her. three times in the head and calls her a fucking bitch as the car like drives away because she's dead and slump down and her foot's on the accelerator. It's also like Dan, his answer to the question about Vance though is basically like, no, Peter, I've not seen any evidence of what J.D. Van said, nor have I looked at it for it because as you and I both know, this is entirely fabricated.

Next question. Yeah. And it's also, it is notable that he basically throws it on J.D. Vance. Does he know what's not true? Does he, you know, who knows? Like he says things that he just, he just told us seconds earlier that he won Minnesota three times. But he really does sometimes leave J.D. Vance on an island with the things J.D. Vance said. I don't know. He's right. He's right. He's right. He doesn't know. He's right. He's right. He doesn't want to own anything J.D. Vance might have done or said that may be inaccurate, maybe wrong, maybe unpopular. He wants to do those things on his own. That's right. He's like, yeah, the vice president tends to be right. But if he's wrong in this case, it's not my fault. That's on him. Basically the message. Yeah.

But, look, big picture, this is incredibly chilling stuff. You know what I mean? Like a federal agent kills a citizen and then the U.S. government at the highest levels justify it by baselessly claiming after the fact that she was a terrorist or, as J.D. Van said, a deranged, like, radical leftist. Like, that is quite literally what you'd expect and you see from Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian. Yeah, I mean, at the same time in the same press conference where we're threatening Denmark with

invasion. Yes. Yes, after invading Venezuela. Okay, final clip from us. This was just kind of funny then. It's already been written now. It's been written. All right.

Thank you, very. You'll make it back one way or the other. You're all going to do very well. I think really very well. Marco just gave me a note. Go back to Chevron. They want to discuss something. Go ahead.

I'm going back to Chevron. Thank you, Marco. This note says, do not read this note aloud, sir. Sir, please do not read this? What a fucking idiot. You know how I always accuse Democrats have read in the stage directions out loud. Well, here's a Republican doing it.

Yep, there's a Republican doing it. It was like President Ron Burgundy over here. Oh, God. I know, Dan, this has been a real tough week. I can't believe it's been less than a week since we invaded it in as well. This has been a tough one. This is one of those weeks where you feel like it is off the rails in a more profound way than, look, in December, like, Trump's polling was down.

He was struggling. He was losing, like, legislative losses at, you know, Congress and things. And now it's like, I don't know, the authoritarianism is shining. through his bloodlust for like using the U.S. military to do whatever he wants is shining through. Like I don't know. It's pretty freaky. We're at a really paradoxical moment here, which is that Trump has never been weaker and he's never been more dangerous. Like just this week, as as this all was happening, as we were invading Venezuela, as we're

threatening Greenland as the United States federal government is marshalling themselves to smear a woman who was shot and killed in public. Trump lost a bunch of votes in Congress. his poll number suck. Here's a guy who stages a daring Delta Force rate of Venezuela, and no one cares. His numbers don't go up. It is like people are not on board with what is happening here. He can still do these things, but it comes with political consequences.

The fact that a bunch of Republicans broke with Trump to pass the three-year extension of the Obamacare tax credits, notable, the fact that a bunch of Republicans broke with Trump to pass a war powers resolution on Venezuela to make it harder for him to do, have another strike there. The fact that a bunch of Republicans voted to override his veto of his petty cancellation of infrastructure projects because he's mad at people for voting for the Epstein files. Like that, like he is, he is weak. And like he is lashing out at that weakness. And that that is very, very dangerous. Yeah, it's very dangerous. And it's, again, it's historically, like, the kind of thing you see from authoritarian, right? Like Putin, Putin invaded, you know, Crimea and then,

the full-scale invasion of Ukraine at moments when the Russian economy was particularly bad, and his polling was down, and he maybe felt a little bit politically vulnerable. We also saw some numbers out on Friday that show the United States only gained like 580,000 jobs last year, compared that to 2024 when I think the Biden economy gained 2 million jobs. I mean, things are just like objectively not going well if his primary task or promise he made to the American people was to create jobs, get costs down. and just like make the economy better for people.

He's failing. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, you know who's not failing us at creating a progressive media empire. Oh, what a segue that was. I don't know if I can get through this one. Look, we are trying to build a progressive media company. Okay, when you subscribe to POTSave America here on YouTube, you help us because lots of people

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