A Nobel Tantrum From Trump

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jared Yates Sexton is on the road without the studio setup, but he and Nick Hauselman still sound sharper than the people allegedly running the country. Nick reads a wildly unhinged letter Trump reportedly sent to Norway, a Nobel Peace Prize grievance tour that somehow swerves into Denmark, Greenland, and demands for “complete and total control.” From there, they dig into what it means when the U.S. starts treating allies like enemies, using tariffs like a cudgel, and drifting toward a real crisis over Greenland. They talk intelligence sharing, Five Eyes, why allies would start going dark, and how all of it connects back to the domestic crackdown, Minnesota, and the surveillance state getting upgraded right in front of everyone.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Mercury podcast. I'm Jared Giaf, Sexton. I'm here with Nick Alpland. Nick, I'm on the road. I'm not in my studio. I don't have my equipment. I probably sound like shit. We're doing it regardless.
0:12.9	What a way to start a podcast, but you don't sound like shit. You sound great. I sound good. You sound, you know what, it's so important to hear the words that it doesn't
0:22.6	really matter what you sound like. Thank you, my friend. And I'm just glad to be here. And I'm glad to be
0:29.8	anywhere, quite frankly, we've got, you know, every day we take more and more steps into this
0:37.2	alternate universe.
0:38.9	And luckily, we're on this journey together, and we thank you so much for your support.
0:42.7	If you haven't already, head over to patreon.com slash muckraig podcast, become a paid subscriber.
0:48.1	It supports us and keeps us ad-free, editorially and fendent.
0:51.1	We need your help more than ever.
0:52.6	Also, you gain access to the weekender episodes, which you're already listening to anyway. But Nick, you know, I've been
1:00.2	traveling and I've been keeping an eye on the news and it sounds like things are going great.
1:06.0	It sounds like our imperial ambitions have started to recede and things have started to get pretty
1:11.4	normal again oh my goodness gracious i don't you know i think we're getting to the point now where
1:16.1	other countries are going to call for the 25th amendment right like that's unprecedented i don't
1:21.7	think we've ever had that before but this would be an opportunity where we're talking about this letter
1:25.3	that he wrote to uh to the head of
1:27.6	norway you know nick it's really weird before we get into this since i've been traveling i
1:33.3	used my time on the road to sort of research older things for context and for other works than
1:40.2	i'm working on and i'm listening to stuff from January 6th of 2021. And all of the talk around
1:49.4	the 25th Amendment there five years ago when Trump was on his way out, it's incredible to hear
1:55.0	people talking for the advocating for the 25th Amendment back then when he was on the way out and had not been
2:02.6	reelected. And of course, shocker of shockers, things got worse. Absolutely. Can I read the letter?
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