What Does Trump Want From Venezuela and Greenland? Charlotte Priests Have Questions, And Hilton Scandal
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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What does President Trump actually want from Venezuela, and is Greenland next in line? We break down the strategic, economic, and geopolitical stakes behind the headlines. Meanwhile, priests in Charlotte are raising serious concerns and taking them directly to the Vatican. And finally, we reveal the truth behind a bizarre Hilton ICE scandal that exploded online. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
03:25 Venezuela + Greenland
35:36 What is Trump Doing With the Hyde Amendment?Â
47:53 Good News
55:27 Something Rare Happened in the Charlotte Diocese
01:13:00 Twilight Zone
01:27:28 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:00.6 | Welcome back to the Loopcast. |
| 0:01.6 | It's Tom, Erica, and Josh. |
| 0:03.3 | Josh, well-dressed today. |
| 0:04.8 | It's fiffy, Josh. For the ambassador to Greenland. Or I guess you could just be like the mayor or president. When it comes America, who knows at that point. Why? Yeah, maybe an emperor. Ooh, Josh. I think you've always fancied yourself as somewhat of an emperor. maybe the emperor of the woodcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Especially of a snowscaped land. |
| 0:23.1 | Like Josh. |
| 0:23.7 | Just fits. |
| 0:24.6 | Emperor. Oh, Josh. I think you've always fancied yourself as somewhat of an emperor, maybe the emperor of the woodcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Especially the snow-scaped land. Like Josh would just be the emperor of the snow-scaped Greenland. |
| 0:26.5 | It could be a new Hallmark movie. It's almost like it's too warm for me, but I can probably manage it. You know, like, didn't Trump like take over the Kennedy Center? |
| 0:34.1 | Like, what if he takes over Hallmark next and the next Hallmark movie is like, you know, |
| 0:38.4 | the small town guy ends up becoming the emperor of Greenland and then meets this like, you know, ambitious, but wants to settle down, Greenlander, woman. Anyway, totally off topic here. Welcome to the show. Welcome everyone here in the live chat. What a time to be alive. I'm seeing a lot of that indeed. What a time to be alive. Tons of news going on here. And I have the show as followed. So we have updates on Venezuela. |
| 0:59.1 | We actually, I believe, as of this morning breaking news, just took over two oil tankers. |
| 1:05.6 | Unmarked. I think they changed the flag to Russian. Very interesting. So I have a little bit on that. |
| 1:10.0 | But I have the update basically of what is the current situation in Venezuela? What is the administration projecting as the future? What is Trump's side and true social? All that. I'll get all of that there. Second, we also have Greenland talk. So we mentioned briefly that there's a lot of loose Greenland talk on Air Force One. We now have a double down from |
| 1:29.4 | Stephen Miller in the administration on Greenland. We have European leaders, you know, |
| 1:34.1 | writing an angry joint statement saying, do not take Greenland. And we even hear from Greenland |
| 1:37.7 | themselves a little bit. So we'll cover that. Second, we have the Hyde Amendment talk. So many |
| 1:42.3 | people were up in arms, probably rightfully so. I'm not sure the exact situation. Trump said, you know, you got to be a little loose with Hyde. And for people that don't know, the Hyde Amendment protects funding from the government going towards abortion. Josh can be much more specific than that, but that's essentially the crux. And so we have the situation there. I see a lot of people talking about Charlotte. |
| 2:01.3 | We do actually have the Charlotte situation. A third of priests there actually submitted a dubia. And so, you know, what is adubia? Is it the most polite way to go around, you know, proper channels, potentially? So we have all the information there. What's going on on the ground in Charlotte? But of course, you know, we got good news. we've got Twilight Zone. |
| 2:18.1 | And it's going to be a fantastic show. |
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