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Bulwark Takes

Trump’s Greenland Text Is Mob Boss Bullsh*t

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

JVL, Sam Stein, and Andrew Egger give their takes on Donald Trump’s shocking message to European leaders, in which he complains about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and links it to his demands for the U.S. to take over Greenland. They unpack how Trump’s message reflects his strongman worldview, drives allies into China’s hands, and draws uneasy parallels to Putin’s actions in Ukraine.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleagues, Sam Stein and Andrew Eger.

0:05.6

And we are taping Monday morning, waking up to news that the President of the United States has sent an amazing text message to two of our partners.

0:16.0

I'm just going to start right away by reading the text to you guys and then we can all react to it. This is a text from

0:23.3

Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, to Jonas Stor from Norway. Dear Jonas,

0:32.7

considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus,

0:39.6

I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant,

0:45.1

but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

0:49.0

Denmark cannot protect the land from Russia or China, and why do they have a right of ownership anyway?

0:55.7

There are no written documents. It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago,

1:00.3

but we had boats landing there also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since

1:05.9

its founding. I'm sorry, what? And now NATO should do something for the United States. The world is not secure

1:15.7

unless we have complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you, President DJT. We will back into where

1:24.1

this statement came from in a moment. But until we get there, Andrew and Sam,

1:31.4

who would like to go first at the pinata? Okay. I feel like that this is one of those where you have

1:39.8

like anxiety where you sit down to talk about it. because like any one single thing that you pull out

1:44.7

of this statement to focus on you're like not doing justice to all the other insane ridiculous

1:50.2

stupid things in there by like making them go later you know what i mean it's like you you have to

1:55.0

just be able to like like a burst of static out of a tv is like the amount of, is what I want to be able to deliver to.

2:02.4

I mean,

2:02.6

it's like every single word in that is insane.

2:05.2

The NATO thing, the,

2:06.8

I guess start at the very top,

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