‘Narcissistic fantasy’: Why none of Trump’s reasons for wanting Greenland make sense
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did he give any response to President Macron saying he will not join the Port of the people? |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, did he say that? Well, nobody wants it because he's going to be out of office very soon. |
| 0:10.0 | So, you know, that's all right. |
| 0:12.0 | What I'll do is if they feel like costo, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagne, and he'll join. |
| 0:19.0 | But he doesn't have to join. |
| 0:24.5 | If he said that, you're probably giving it to me a little bit differently. |
| 0:29.3 | But if he actually did say that, but as you know, he's going to be out of office in a few months. |
| 0:36.6 | One of several major stories we're covering this morning, President Trump lashing out at another ally late last night amid his relentless |
| 0:39.4 | push to acquire Greenland. It all could come to a head tomorrow in Switzerland, where the president |
| 0:45.5 | will meet with European leaders who oppose his efforts to take control of the Arctic island. |
| 0:52.3 | Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the aggressive tactics by ice continue to face |
| 0:57.7 | intense scrutiny, including agents, detaining a U.S. citizen in his home, forcing him to walk |
| 1:05.6 | out in sub-freezing temperatures in his underwear. We'll go through the account from the man and his family and the |
| 1:12.5 | explanation from DHS. |
| 1:14.5 | That's actually lies. |
| 1:15.7 | And over in St. Paul, the city says one of its employees was illegally detained by ICE |
| 1:21.5 | last week. |
| 1:22.3 | He was detained by ICE purely based on his country of origin. |
| 1:32.4 | He had every federal authorization to be here, which is something we check at the city of St. Paul. |
| 1:36.7 | Any municipal government, certainly the city of St. Paul, we do a criminal background check. |
| 1:42.9 | We make sure that everybody has all the legal documents that they need to work in the United States and Minnesota. |
| 1:52.1 | Plus, it's been over one month since the Justice Department was supposed to release all of the Epstein files. |
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