MAGA in Europe: Make America Go Away
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Then, the Department of Homeland Security claims to have arrested 3,000 criminal migrants in Minnesota over the last six weeks. But, as Minnesota Public Radio’s Matt Sepic reports, that number is misleading, and U.S. citizens are getting caught up in immigration operations too.
And, Tuesday marks one year of Trump’s second term. Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer says Trump has expanded presidential power to advance his agenda, something Republicans have been trying to do for decades, despite claims of favoring a limited federal government.
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| 0:24.6 | It's more shocking and more disillusioned than it has ever been. |
| 0:29.2 | And I think we are really at the worst of the relationship now with the United States |
| 0:33.3 | since the inauguration of Donald Trump exactly a year ago. |
| 0:38.2 | American threats of war over Greenland have European allies wondering, |
| 0:44.0 | with friends like these, who needs enemies? |
| 1:01.3 | It's Tuesday, January 20th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 1:14.1 | Today on the show, immigration agents are breaking into homes in Minnesota, even hauling one American citizen out into the snow in his underwear. |
| 1:20.5 | This is yet another instance of an illegal warrantless entry. They bang, bash down his door. |
| 1:24.1 | Gotta have a warrant from a federal judge to do that. They did not. |
| 1:27.8 | An update from the Twin Cities coming up in a few minutes. We'll also consider how Trump has expanded the presence of the federal government in American life |
| 1:33.1 | since he returned to office one year ago today. |
| 1:40.9 | But first, MAGA hats are taking off in Denmark. Except this MAGA stands for Make America |
| 1:48.9 | go away. The hats also feature a pretty clever pun in Danish involving the capital of Greenland. |
| 1:56.2 | Danes want President Trump to drop his campaign to acquire Greenland, which is a Danish territory. |
| 2:02.5 | It's not a new idea. It's something that Trump wanted badly in his first term, but back |
| 2:07.8 | then the idea was brushed off. Now he's threatening to tighten the screws on tariffs to get what |
| 2:14.1 | he wants, so imports from eight European countries could cost 10% more, starting February 1st, and 25% more in June. |
| 2:24.2 | For more on how European leaders are responding to all this, we called up Lianna Fix. She's a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and she spoke to Indira Lakshmanan. |
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