Maddow on Trump's unbridled chaos: 'We are having some drama at the moment'

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow looks at the news stories we would have trouble believing if we weren't living through them in real time, including Denmark, a U.S. ally, making preparations to defend itself and Greenland against the U.S., Donald Trump staggering around war crime-level threats against Iran, a MAGA sheriff seizing hundreds of thousands of ballots, and ICE agents being sent to airports with no real job to do.

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0:00.0	I'm really happy to have you here. We are having a moment of sort of unbelievably dramatic news.
0:06.2	News that's like if you were pitching a movie, the people you were pitching it to would say,
0:11.7	no, that's too over the top. We can't do that.
0:15.8	Denmark reportedly sent soldiers just a few weeks ago.
0:20.0	They sent soldiers to Greenland armed with
0:22.7	explosives and blood supplies. The explosives were to blow up the runways at airports in Greenland,
0:30.4	and the blood supplies were in anticipation of combat casualties in a conflict with the United
0:37.1	States.
0:38.3	That is, if the U.S. could find a way to put U.S. troops on the ground in Greenland without
0:43.3	landing on the blown-up airfields.
0:46.3	Think about that for a second.
0:48.3	I mean, Denmark, it's freaking Denmark.
0:50.3	They are literally and officially our ally, but they had to send troops out
0:54.7	with live ammunition and blood supplies and live explosives, not for an exercise, not for training,
1:01.4	but on a real deployment on which they planned to disable the airfields in Greenland
1:06.5	to protect their territory against us, against the United States.
1:11.9	You may also recall that Denmark is in NATO.
1:15.3	So if Trump actually does try to use military force to take Greenland,
1:19.7	we will be at war with all of NATO.
1:23.6	But now I guess we know how it would start.
1:27.4	Too dramatic? Too far-fetched? Oh, wait, there's more. Consider Hungary. But now I guess we know how it would start.
1:27.8	Too dramatic?
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