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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:19.000We're actually going to have Sean Davis, co-founder and CEO of the Federalists, on in the second hour to look back at one year of President Trump's second term in office, 47.
00:02:11.000And so, but the big news of the morning, of course, is President Trump gave his big speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and made huge news.
00:02:23.000So let's just start with the clip and then we're going to unpack this.
00:02:26.000So President Trump made it very clear there's been this back and forth.
00:04:33.000And so what he says is this: quote, what is actually underway, it's not all the noise.
00:04:38.000Listen to this, is supply chain annexation dressed in the costume of territorial ambition.
00:04:45.000The target is not an island, it is two geological formations in southern Greenland.
00:04:51.000And I'm going to pronounce these terribly, but Kevésefeld and Tanbreeze that contain the heavy rare-earth elements without which no advanced weapon system can be built.
00:05:01.000Dysprosium, Teribium, names that mean nothing to the public, but everything to the Pentagon.
00:05:07.000These elements are irreplaceable in the actuators of F-35 fighters, the guidance fins of precision munitions, the sonar arrays of Virginia-class submarines, and the permanent magnets of every electric vehicle motor.
00:05:20.000China controls over 90% of global processing.
00:05:24.000The United States controls almost none.
00:05:26.000The quote-unquote purchase of Greenland is not a land deal.
00:05:34.000There's also the fact that Trump is now signaling to Canada that this is about building the Golden Dome.
00:05:41.000And he's warning Kearney up in Canada, the great white north neighbor, saying, you know, why don't you watch your mouth when you're talking about these things and flirting with the CCP, Mr. Carney?
00:07:28.000I think Josh Wolf makes some good points with the rare earth, the heavy rare earth minerals that China largely controls around the world, and that Greenland has apparently a lot of.
00:07:39.000There's also the point that Trump wants to build the Golden Dome, which will protect Canada as well.
00:07:44.000And if you look at a map that is, you know, I think we, yeah, this map, 331, if you see this map, if the U.S. acquires Greenland, if you, you know, because oftentimes we see those maps that are laid out sort of long ways as opposed to the globe where it's properly positioned, you see how far north of the lower 48 and how well positioned it is to defend against attacks that might come over the Arctic from Russia, from China,
00:08:14.000where there are ICBM stations that could reach the U.S., that could reach Canada.
00:08:19.000That position is very strategic in building a global dome.
00:08:23.000And it was interesting in the speech, President Trump made this point.
00:08:26.000He said, it's not just, you know, you got to understand it's a psychological difference.
00:08:31.000Nobody wants to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in something that they're leasing that could go back to an original owner.
00:08:39.000You know, so that part actually makes a lot of sense.
00:08:41.000But if the U.S. controls those two fronts, Alaska and Greenland, the ability to defend the lower 48 becomes extraordinarily robust, especially from ICBM attacks coming over the Arctic.
00:08:55.000So listen, there's a lot of stuff that makes sense here.
00:08:57.000And it was interesting to me because you have been raising the alarm, Blake.
00:09:02.000I think in a lot of ways, you're worried that we're alienating our most tried and true partners in Europe, which you acknowledge have a lot of problems.
00:09:10.000I'm not saying you're giving them a free ride here.
00:09:12.000But it was interesting that your take was that his you actually appreciated the tone this morning.
00:09:19.000Explain why you thought it was more medicine.
00:09:21.000So as I said, I think the biggest risk here, as I've explained, is that they look at what the President Trump is doing.
00:09:27.000And it's not just, oh, he's being assertive like he is before.
00:09:30.000It's the sense, is he being unreliable?
00:09:33.000Because, for example, with NATO, you can say, NATO, you need to spend more on your defense.
00:09:38.000But if you're straight up saying, we are going to take territory from you abruptly, make this new demand, and if not, any number of things can happen.
00:09:47.000At that point, you're basically saying this isn't a military alliance anymore.
00:09:55.000So I like him saying, okay, we're not going to attack you.
00:09:58.000We're going to operate through the normal means.
00:10:01.000We don't want, there's always that risk that President Trump will kind of drive your partners away so much they say, we're going to make partnerships with other people, if only because we just don't like you anymore.
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00:13:35.000If they really don't want to give away Denmark, what they should have just, or Greenland, they should have just said, President Trump is right.
00:14:08.000President Trump loves making deals on things.
00:14:10.000And it's so frustrating that they're not reacting that way.
00:14:14.000And instead, we get both sides digging in their heels and we might get a renewed trade war out of this, potentially.
00:14:20.000Yeah, I think today was a step back from that.
00:14:22.000But, you know, what probably would make sense on your line of reasoning is you do it in sort of like a Guantanamo Bay-Cuba scenario where you, you know, if Charlie, or if this is what Charlie would say, at least I'm suspecting because Charlie went to Greenland, you know, this is going in the back of my head.
00:14:39.000Charlie experienced firsthand all the love that the folks of Nuke had for President Trump.
00:14:44.000I think Greenlanders want their independence.
00:14:47.000They want to be able to vote on a referendum.
00:14:49.000But the point is, you could give or sell portions of Greenland to the United States, almost in a Guantanamo Bay fashion, where we actually do own the land.
00:15:02.000And, you know, Denmark could retain ownership of the rest.
00:15:05.000I don't think Trump would be happy with that because we do want to mine it.
00:15:08.000We do want to take these rarer minerals out of it.
00:15:11.000But in defense of a strong U.S. imperial economic military force, I just have to say I love it because Trump is calling BS on a lot of this stuff where Europe is weak.
00:15:44.000Meanwhile, President Trump's bringing in $17, $18 trillion of direct investment, foreign direct investment, businesses investing in the country.
00:15:51.000We've got nuclear plants, the brand new ones that are a lot safer, a lot more efficient, smaller, building those all over the country, building new plants, building new factories.
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00:17:29.000So why that plays in is that Trump has reversed the trend on those pieces.
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00:19:10.000So, I believe we are still working on getting Jack Posobiec here, but I wanted to kind of, I think I'm going to set this up here with for Jack here.
00:19:19.000There's these two clips that just need to be juxtaposed side by side.
00:19:23.000So, you've got this Finland president, Alexander Stubb, says Europe can defend itself unequivocally without the Americans.
00:19:43.000But you're relying on them for these key elements.
00:19:45.000How would you do it at scale and at duration and at intensity?
00:19:48.000With an assumption that the United States would cut off completely any kind of work.
00:19:53.000Well, if we look at the defense composure of Europe by and large in a country like Finland, the bottom line is that if you ask me the question, can the Finnish military defend itself against a Russian attack, the whole defense posture of the way in which you do it?
00:20:53.000Though, I would say it's better for us, if we're interacting with them, we much more want them to start paying up, but still be basically reliant on us versus if they decide America's getting a little wacky.
00:23:17.000And, you know, we're here, we're in the room.
00:23:18.000I remember four years ago, my very first Davos calling into the Charlie Kirk show right after getting detained by the World Economic Forum police.
00:23:27.000So, you know, here we are four years later.
00:23:43.000There's this sort of, you know, I would say even kind of a cynicism of some of the European leaders saying that, oh, Trump, he's so ridiculous.
00:23:53.000We can, you know, we can be rude to him.
00:23:55.000But at the same time, you've come to understand that, and certainly in the room we saw this, there were a lot of people laughing at his jokes.
00:24:01.000They were sort of rolling with the punches, rolling with the laughter.
00:24:04.000And I think that this time around, given that he's been on the world stage for so many years, they've started to take that old Scott Adams phrase where they take him seriously, but they don't take him literally.
00:24:18.000And what that means is that they're serious about his intentions, but they understand that a lot of what he's doing, he's going into his salesman pitch.
00:25:26.000This is what, again, this, we talked about this guy, Josh Wolf, Jack, who kind of, you know, he said this is classic Trump negotiation sequence.
00:26:01.000I think that's exactly the path that I'm trying to see this.
00:26:04.000And if anyone wants to know what this is called, it's literally called the art of the deal.
00:26:08.000President Trump wrote a book about this about 40 years ago where he outlines that specific policy In great detail.
00:26:14.000He says it's what he does every single time he's in a high-stakes negotiation.
00:26:18.000I think it's really interesting that so many people either haven't actually read that book, haven't seen him do it a million times already, and that they still seem to fall for the same exact trick.
00:26:29.000Now, one of the things that I did think was interesting, you know, coming at it from a military perspective as well, that he did talk about the need for Greenland, not just we've heard from the Arctic shipping routes, we've also heard it from the national security in terms of those sea lanes, but he also talked about ballistic missile defense and really talked about the Golden Dome, those intercontinental ballistic missiles, whether they're fired off from China, Russia, North Korea, even if Iran, if they were able to develop those long-range ballistic missiles, they would be flying them over the top,
00:26:57.000targeting Washington, D.C., and they would inevitably fall within the territory of Greenland, making Greenland a key position, key point for the United States in any type of missile defense.
00:27:08.000And I haven't really seen him use that phrasing and use that phraseology, put it all together on the world stage.
00:27:15.000He kind of presaged it in an interview yesterday, but today was the really big one.
00:27:19.000And I think that for anyone who's looking at it seriously, he makes some very solid military points there.
00:27:49.000I think it's very, very ironic that Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman, meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.
00:28:06.000He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.