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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The Art of the Deal (Greenland edition)

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

Government, Politics, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Michael Froman — former U.S. Trade Representative, Deputy National Security Advisor and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations — joins Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to discuss the state of affairs in the world that Trump is stepping into, how world leaders are watching and reacting to Trump’s every word and what he thinks Trump will do differently than Biden in global hot spots like Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, and yes… Greenland. Eugene Daniels is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Michael Froman is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.  Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We talk to foreign leaders around the world.

0:32.9

They are all eager to know what it takes to do a deal with Donald Trump. That's what they want to know.

0:42.9

Which one of y'all started off the week thinking Donald Trump buying Greenland would be the big story?

0:48.7

Or what about Trump taking back the Panama Canal and renaming those beaches of Cancun, the Gulf of America.

0:56.0

Oh, and while we're at it, did you say goodbye to Justin Trudeau?

1:00.0

You know, the governor of Canada, America's 51st state, which Trump is threatening with a 25% tariff?

1:07.0

I know what you're thinking. Is he really going to do this stuff? Trump has to be trolling us.

1:13.0

Well, maybe not. Maybe there's a method to his madness, some clear goals and a few bedrock

1:19.4

principles guiding them. That may be the case, according to this week's guest.

1:24.3

He's willing to say outrageous things, create unpredictability, and then act in a way that

1:32.3

hopefully lands the plane in a more reasonable position.

1:36.3

Michael Frommon is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, which is damn

1:40.3

impressive on its own.

1:41.3

But he also served as the U.S. Trade Representative during President

1:45.4

Barack Obama's second term, where he supervised negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership,

1:51.4

among other things. Before that, Frommon held multiple senior roles in the Clinton administration,

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