MS NOW Host Torches ‘Absolutely Insane’ Trump Over Idea To Invade Greenland | EUROtoday

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MS NOW host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday launched into an unbridled rant about “absolutely insane” President Donald Trump and his proposal to accumulate Greenland by army drive.

He additionally slammed the unnamed billionaires apparently endorsing this “stupid shit.”

“It’s insanity,” Scarborough informed his “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire. “And the fact is that they are good NATO partners of ours, so you can’t even claim that it’s damaging to America’s national security interests, because, well, they’re our NATO ally.”

He continued, “And the White House yesterday, John, saying that invading Greenland has always been an option. No, it’s not an option, unless you are absolutely insane. Unless you want to turn your back on what the United States of America has been doing since 1945.”

The White House confirmed Tuesday that Trump and his advisers are taking a look at “a range of options” to accumulate Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, stating that the usage of U.S. army drive to take action is “always an option.”

The leaders of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and the U.Ok. joined Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a press release declaring Greenland “belongs to its people” — and that “only” Greenland and Denmark get “to decide on matters” regarding them.

While NATO allies corresponding to France and Germany are already planning the way to reply ought to Trump act on his menace, which seems much more critical in gentle of the U.S. army operation in Venezuela, a number of billionaire Trump donors have reportedly pushed for it.

Greenland holds an unlimited quantity of untapped minerals required to construct trendy computer systems, smartphones and different applied sciences for a transition to wash power. Trump first floated the thought of annexation in 2019 and maintains that it’s important “from the standpoint of national security.”

Donald Trump Jr. has gleefully promoted his father’s plans to accumulate Greenland, and one yr in the past to the day, stated the quiet half out loud — noting the Danish territory has “rare Earth minerals,” coal, uranium, gold and diamonds within the floor.

Scarborough on Wednesday stated persons are “idiots” for believing Trump’s rhetoric that international commerce companions have turned the U.S. into “suckers,” and warned that invading Greenland would “shatter the international order” that has “benefited America” all alongside.

“These billionaires running around saying stupid shit like this, these are the same billionaires that are billionaires because of the world order that we created in this country post-1945,” he stated. “That world order begins to crumble, piece by piece by piece, when you start undermining the NATO alliance — by talking about invading a NATO ally.”

Watch the complete “Morning Joe” dialogue on YouTube.

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