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Trumps escalates his Greenland push.

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Isaac Saul

Independent, Us News, Local News, Biden, Congress, Us House Of Representatives, Election, Trump, Us Senate, News, Us Politics, Politics, Nonpartisan, News Commentary, International News

4.7817 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has escalated his efforts to acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark that he says is vital to national interests. The president has not ruled out using military force to take control of the island, while also threatening to impose tariffs on European nations who oppose the move. Many leaders of member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have condemned Trump’s comments and expressed concern that he is jeopardizing the stability of the alliance. 


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0:00.0

From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

0:08.4

This is Tangle.

0:10.4

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take.

0:27.9

I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the latest on Greenland and the United States and Donald Trump's apparent interest in acquiring, invading,

0:42.7

getting, quote unquote, getting Greenland somehow. Not really sure exactly what's going to happen,

0:49.2

but that's part of the story we're going to share today. Before we jump in, I want to give you a

0:53.2

quick heads up and a reminder that

0:54.8

in Friday's members-only podcast, we published internal communications from our Slack channel.

1:01.8

This was my idea. I sort of went off the reservation a little bit, but got my team on board.

1:07.3

And the idea was to give our audience an inside look at what happens behind the scenes

1:10.9

and how we're discussing the day's issues when nobody is watching.

1:14.5

Predictably, the post has generated a lot of valuable discussion among our readers,

1:19.0

and we're proud of the decision to lean into transparency with our audience

1:22.6

and immensely gratified by the thoughtful response that decision provoked.

1:26.7

If you haven't yet, you can go back in our

1:28.6

podcast feed to listen to that episode where we did a read-down, a sort of reenactment of the Slack

1:33.7

channel, which was pretty fun with the editorial team. And you can also find a transcript of it

1:39.2

in the Friday edition on our website. All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to John

1:43.4

for today's main story, and I'll be back for my take.

1:52.1

Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody.

1:54.1

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

1:56.5

Hope it was relaxing and revitalizing, giving you enough energy for the week ahead.

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