Trump makes a fool of himself on world stage; pretends to solve crisis of his own making
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
4.4 • 975 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In any other world, in any other news cycle, in any other administration, the president of the United States saying this on the world stage would be huge, blaring, front page, you couldn't avoid it kind of news. |
| 0:15.3 | Usually they say he's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator. |
| 0:23.4 | Now, that, of course, was the man who currently occupies the Oval Office saying, |
| 0:28.8 | sometimes you need a dictator and basically owning up to being one. A profoundly, it doesn't matter |
| 0:34.2 | how many times he says it. Disturbing sentiment from the man who's supposed to be leading the world's most powerful democracy. So why didn't that statement dominate all the headlines today? We hear talking about it, but why didn't it dominate the headlines? Well, in part because we already know he sees himself as a dictator based on his tyrannical approach to governing. And also because on the same day at the World Economic Forum in Davos, when he proudly owned up to |
| 1:00.0 | being a dictator, his shocking disconnection from reality was also on full display in the speech. |
| 1:07.2 | I mean, today before an audience of world leaders, Trump rambled for over an hour, railing against our allies, including the host nation of Switzerland, insulting Joe Biden, lamenting that windmills are losers, and also reiterating his plans to take over Greenland. |
| 1:22.8 | Of course, Trump has been obsessed with the idea of the U.S. taking control of Greenland for nearly a decade. |
| 1:28.5 | The man has been fixated on it since his first term. I mean, I, Donald Trump has given more |
| 1:34.9 | thought to annexing Greenland. I think it's safe to say than he has given to most geopolitical |
| 1:39.3 | issues, which is why it was so remarkable when today Donald Trump could not seem to remember exactly which territory he has long been completely obsessed with annexing. |
| 1:50.8 | I'm helping NATO, and I've, until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. |
| 1:58.6 | They called me daddy, right? Last time, a very smart man said, he's our daddy. He's running it. |
| 2:05.6 | I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. |
| 2:09.6 | But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world |
| 2:22.0 | protection. |
| 2:24.7 | Hey, Daddy, I have a question for you. |
| 2:28.0 | Why are we talking about Iceland all of a sudden? |
| 2:31.6 | I mean, I thought the territory that you wanted to take over is Greenland, not Iceland. You can see them on the map there, two different countries. But hey, we all make mistakes from time to time, a slip at the tongue. I mean, it's not like you repeated that mistake over and over and over again in front of the entire world, right? |
| 2:50.2 | So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat and tears, I don't know that |
| 2:57.1 | they'd be there for us. They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. |
| 3:02.5 | I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. |
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