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🗓️ 13 January 2026
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| 0:18.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump was supposed to talk about |
| 0:24.6 | affordability in Detroit today, but as NPR's at Deepa Shiverum reports, he mostly talked about other |
| 0:30.1 | issues. Despite Trump's historically low approval readings on his handling of the economy, he continues |
| 0:36.6 | to insist that the country is experiencing |
| 0:38.9 | economic success. We have quickly gone from the worst numbers on record to the best and strongest |
| 0:45.5 | numbers, the most dynamic numbers, and an economy that is far ahead. Things like gas prices have |
| 0:53.0 | decreased, but high prices of things like groceries and |
| 0:56.1 | electricity remain atop concern for voters in this midterm election year. For most of his speech, |
| 1:02.2 | the president didn't even talk about the economy. Instead, Trump touted military recruitment numbers, |
| 1:07.6 | attacked Somali immigrants and former president Joe Biden, and encouraged protesters in Iran to, quote, take over your institutions. |
| 1:15.3 | Dupa Chivaram and PR News. |
| 1:17.0 | The Trump administration is hosting a meeting with officials from Greenland and Denmark tomorrow. |
| 1:22.2 | NPR's Lauren Freyer reports an official in Greenland says it's unfathomable that the U.S. is considering taking over a NATO ally. |
| 1:29.6 | Greenland's energy minister Naya Nathanielsen describes how Greenlanders are feeling. |
| 1:34.2 | We feel betrayed. We feel that the rhetoric is offensive. |
| 1:38.7 | Nathanielsen told reporters in London she understands that the U.S. sees Greenland as part of its national security sphere. |
| 1:45.2 | And she says her government is willing to collaborate with the U.S., but that she hopes that |
| 1:49.2 | can be done without the use of force. |
| 1:51.4 | We are allies of the U.S., and of course we are bewildered that now I have to have a press |
| 1:56.0 | conference discussing a possible annexation or selling of Greenland. |
| 2:00.4 | For others, the Arctic Island may be a piece of land, but for Greenlanders, she said, |
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