Are you better off today than a year ago? Trump 2.0
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Hugh discusses President Trump's first year in office this second term and talks with Bret Baier, Josh Holmes, Byron York, David Drucker and James Lileks.
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| 0:53.6 | Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, joined by Brett Bear, the host of Special Report, |
| 0:58.2 | America's anchorman. Brett, we have the most unusual of press conferences today. What did you make of that? |
| 1:05.8 | Well, as president, laying out what he sees his accomplishments of one year. It was almost exactly one year to the minute |
| 1:12.7 | that he got inaugurated into his second term as president. I think he spent a lot of time on |
| 1:18.7 | Minnesota and justifying what he sees of communication not focusing on the number of people, |
| 1:26.8 | criminals, taken off the streets in these ice operations |
| 1:29.9 | and flipping through that at the beginning of the news conference. |
| 1:34.2 | Obviously, a lot of questions about Greenland and the one that gets most attention is, you know, |
| 1:40.6 | what lengths will you go to get Greenland? |
| 1:44.3 | And he said, you'll find out, you know, this ominous thing. |
| 1:47.5 | And I think it all leads up to, you know, his Davos speech this week and meeting with those leaders. |
| 1:54.9 | If I had to guess, it's all a matter of negotiations and dealmaking. And he's got a plan to deal with Greenland. |
| 2:05.4 | I still, to this day, do not believe the U.S. military is going to be engaged in taking over |
| 2:11.0 | Greenland. |
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