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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Trump Backs Off on Greenland, Settling for New Military Bases He Could Have Had All Along

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:28.3

It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

0:38.0

I have been remiss in not tipping my cap to Indiana,

0:43.2

beating Miami for the college football championship,

0:46.0

the first ever championship for the Hoosers.

0:50.2

Back, steps up, delivering downfield,

0:52.7

intercepted.

0:54.5

Jomari Shirk makes the pick that will clinch Indiana's first national championship.

1:01.1

And, you know, it's nice to see a team.

1:04.6

Usually you have the same powerhouses, but a team that's never done it before,

1:09.6

reached the top of the heap, and it makes

1:11.1

it more interesting. And just wanted to catch up with that. Obviously, this is not breaking

1:17.0

news. You know about this. But what is breaking news is what happened yesterday in Davos. And let me

1:24.6

just be clear about this. Donald Trump backed off on his threats against Greenland.

1:31.1

And the reason he did that is because, by and large, he was spooked by the stock market.

1:37.8

When he was saying, I'm not ruling out, you know, military action and, you know, we must do this and we're going to take over Greenland and all of that,

1:45.8

completely alienating our European allies.

1:51.4

It seems to me that it's evident that he could have gotten what he wanted without, you know,

1:58.9

coming off as a hostile power.

2:01.6

And so I remember I said just a couple days ago on Special Report that we already have a

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