Prize Fighter: Trump’s Shocking Greenland Text

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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President Trump sends a late-night text to the Norwegian prime minister, suggesting his Nobel Peace Prize snub justifies military action in Greenland. One year after a measles outbreak in Texas, the U.S. could lose its “elimination status” from the World Health Organization. And China reveals data showing its birth rate plummeted last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	It's Tuesday, January 20th.
0:32.6	Whatever happened to it's just an honor to be nominated.
0:34.6	We start here.
0:36.6	President Trump says he's considering military intervention it's just an honor to be nominated. We start here.
0:43.6	President Trump says he's considering military intervention in Greenland because he was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. You're not going to give me the Peace Prize. Well,
0:47.9	I'm not going to be, you know, so into peace right now. Norway's prime minister reveals a late-night
0:52.9	text with profound implications for NATO.
0:56.4	The U.S. might be kicked off what used to be a pretty basic list.
1:00.0	The U.S. could lose its elimination status.
1:02.7	Measles is returning to more American communities, and for years they begged families
1:08.0	to keep it to one child.
1:09.5	China's population problem is so big, and we must do something to control ourselves.
1:14.8	Now they're lucky if they hit that mark.
1:17.5	New data show births plummeting in China.
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1:25.4	I'm Brad Milkey. Hello, happy Tuesday.
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