E117: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – Trump’s Letter to Norway
Working Class History
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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When Trump’s letter to the Norwegian PM came out, we all thought it was extremely funny. And, at WCH, we thought we’d try to produce some newsy/current affairs style content for a change.
As you can see, we failed. The news cycle proved too fast for us, and we’ve basically just made another history episode (albeit about more recent history than usual!).Regardless, we’ve decided to release it anyway. So tune in to listen as Matt and John make fun of everything from Trump’s punctuation and grammar, to his anti-colonial Marxist reasoning for the US takeover of Greenland. Plus, what it means to have a fascist leader in such an obvious state of cognitive decline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. As you might know, we don't get any sort of funding from any wealthy benefactors, academic institutions, governments or political parties. |
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| 0:22.9 | podcast series, fireside chats and radical reads. So here's a little preview of our latest |
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| 0:43.4 | As we come marching marching in the beauty of the day. A million darkened in kitchens, a thousand mill |
| 0:53.2 | off screys, are brightened by the beauties, sun and sun discloses. |
| 0:59.0 | And the people here are seeing bread and roses, bread and roses. |
| 1:06.0 | I just feel like conceptually, like, he's there and being like, |
| 1:12.4 | fucking Norway didn't give me the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:15.5 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:16.2 | And also, like, he's so pissed off about it that, like, he got that Venezuelan woman |
| 1:22.1 | to actually give him the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:26.0 | And the thing is, he does this all the time. |
| 1:28.3 | He did it at the Club World Cup when he made Chelsea give him the Club World Cup. |
| 1:33.1 | And he made FIFA make up a Peace Prize. |
| 1:35.6 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:37.1 | For the other World Cup, he just made them make one up. |
| 1:40.5 | And it's like, this again, I just think is like, it speaks to just his general imbecility. |
| 1:48.7 | You know what I mean? |
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