Former Trump Official Calls His Greenland Push ‘Deranged’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump’s ex-White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews is condemning his obsession with annexing Greenland, calling the controversial quest “the most mentally ill, deranged thing” Trump has pursued in his second time period.

Appearing Monday on a panel on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Matthews, who served in Trump’s first administration earlier than resigning following the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, blasted Trump for his threats in opposition to the autonomous Danish territory.

“Yeah, I don’t say this lightly. I think this might be the most mentally ill, deranged thing that Donald Trump has done to date, to be threatening our allies and wanting to go to war, potentially over Greenland, when his reasoning doesn’t even make sense,” she mentioned.

Trump has claimed that “we need Greenland because Russia and China will take over Greenland if we don’t,” she identified, “but then he invites [Russian President] Vladimir Putin to sit on his [Gaza] Board of Peace. Make it make sense for me, because it doesn’t make any sense.”

“There’s plenty of other solutions we could do with the Danish government if we wanted more minerals, for example. But Trump is not doing that,” she added.

Trump’s focusing on of Greenland has sparked widespread pushback from European leaders and allies who’ve argued that the annexation of the territory would shatter the NATO alliance. Trump threatened final week to punish international locations that don’t again his transfer to take management of Greenland with tariffs.

Matthews argued that the president’s pursuit of Greenland has “frustrated” his supporters “because people did not vote for him to take over Greenland.”

“They voted for him because they wanted more affordable health care. They wanted lower costs of groceries at the grocery store. They want to be able to buy a home. And these are not the things he’s prioritizing.”

She urged voters to “call upon” their congressional representatives to push again and lauded Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) for having the “most spine” within the GOP for standing as much as Trump on the problem.

Praising Bacon for declaring that Trump might be impeached if he strikes ahead with annexing Greenland, she mentioned, “That’s the type of language that we need to be seeing from other Republicans.”

“The American people need to be putting the pressure on their members of Congress and saying, ‘We don’t support this’ because public polling shows that Americans don’t support this and they don’t want to see this,” she added.

Matthews’ remarks on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight” start on the 3:30 mark under.