The Daily Blast: Trump Tirades on Greenland Get So Dark that It Unnerves Medical Expert

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Over the weekend, President Trump sent a deranged text to Norway’s prime minister linking his failure to win the Nobel Peace prize to the possibility of taking Greenland by military force. That wasn’t a one-off: Trump said something similar in rambling remarks on Tuesday. Trump’s lunacy is prompting a medical expert to sound the alarm: He notes that Trump’s conduct should “trigger a bipartisan congressional inquiry into presidential fitness.” That was amplified by a Danish politician, who called Trump “mad and erratic.” So how is all this madness perceived by the rest of the world right now? We talked to international relations expert Elizabeth Saunders, who has a great new piece for Foreign Affairs magazine about the future of “primitive anarchy” that Trump is leading us into. She explains the deeper reasons Trump is so unconstrained, how his conduct is seen by other foreign leaders, and why there’s reason to fear that Trump’s designs on Greenland are deadly serious. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.6	Over the weekend, the news broke that President Trump sent a deranged text to Norway's Prime Minister about his desire to seize Greenland. In it, Trump linked his failure to win the Nobel
1:09.2	Peace Prize to the possibility of taking Greenland by military force.
1:14.3	It turns out that wasn't a one-off. Trump said something very similar in remarks to reporters on Tuesday,
1:21.4	and all this has prompted at least one medical specialist to sound the alarm.
1:26.3	That notion in turn was amplified by a Danish politician
1:29.7	who called Trump mad and erratic, which got us thinking about how all this madness must be
1:36.1	getting perceived by the rest of the world. So we're talking about this to Elizabeth Saunders,
1:41.4	a political scientist who specializes in international relations and has a
1:45.8	great new piece for Foreign Affairs magazine, arguing that Trump is leading us into a future of
1:51.0	primitive anarchy. Elizabeth, nice to have you on. Thanks. Good to be here. So Trump has been talking
1:58.2	about taking over Greenland and everybody has already seen the text that
2:02.6	he sent to Norway's prime minister. I'll read the key part. Quote, considering your country
2:08.4	decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight plus wars, I no longer
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