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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Tirades on Greenland Get So Dark that It Unnerves Medical Expert

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

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Over the weekend, the news broke that President Trump sent a deranged text to Norway's prime

1:33.0

minister about his desire to seize Greenland. In it, Trump linked his failure to win the Nobel

1:39.3

Peace Prize to the possibility of taking Greenland by military force.

1:46.8

It turns out that wasn't a one-off.

1:50.9

Trump said something very similar in remarks to reporters on Tuesday,

1:55.6

and all this has prompted at least one medical specialist to sound the alarm.

2:02.4

That notion, in turn, was amplified by a Danish politician who called Trump mad and erratic,

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