January 6, 2026 • 12 mins
Trump’s aggressive foreign policy maneuvers aren’t a diversion from America First policy. They’re exceedingly America First policy.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Munt Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh it is about so much more than venezuela and oil,
So much more than venezuela and oil, Dog Grahamlin, don't
you know, oh man, There's been a lot over the
past day, a lot over the past couple of days that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Needs to be addressed. I tackle a lot of the
analysis yesterday. Let me dive in a bit more here,
and I'm actually gonna start with the whole Greenland thing
for a moment. Why is it that Trump is talking
about Greenland again? What is is he? Is? He just
trying to ruffle the feathers of the Danish Prime minister.
(00:55):
She's pretty nervous. Gotta rigged out. Here's fox is Jonathan? Said?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredericson says she believes President Trump's
ongoing threat to seize control of Greenland could have catastrophic consequences.
The island is a semi autonomous part of the Kingdom
of Denmark, strategically crucial and mineral rich.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, all right, so Danish PM scared. You never know
what Trump's gonna do. He's a crazy man, don't you know.
All Right, So Trump is talking about Greenland again for
the same reason he was last January. It wasn't like
he forgot about it and it's like, oh yeah, we
got Maduro Greenland. It's also for the same reason that
(01:43):
he acted to end Chinese influencer for the Pandama Canal,
for the same reason he made the rounds in the
Middle East last spring. It's related to the similar reason
he dropped the mops on Ron's nuclear facilities, for the
same reason he ordered the operation to arrest and to
extradite Miduro and his wife, and actually for the same
(02:06):
reason that thirty two Cuban intelligence officials were confirmed by
Cuba to have been killed in Venezuela during the operation
to remove and extradite Maduro on Saturday. Oh, by the way,
I don't know if you had heard that one not
being widely reported. First, doesn't sound like the common intel
(02:26):
machine's doing too well these days. But the other is yes,
lest you have any doubt about how I'm always talking
about these new access countries working together, there you go.
It's also for the same reason that for the better
part of a decade. You have frequently heard me say
(02:50):
this that China isn't just China. China is Russia, It's Iran,
it's North Korea. What does North Korea have They have
a little rocket man. It's Cuba, It's Venezuela, and it's Nicaragua.
(03:15):
And as I explaining yesterday's Q and I, the reason
China and Russia two major economies, militaries players on the
world stage, even bother with the other countries, is all strategic.
Noko has nukes, Iran has oil. Cuba has proximity to
the United States. Nicaragua has vast natural resources, including rare
(03:36):
earths and venezuela. And you talk about oil, they got oil,
all right. They sit on the world's largest innergytury energy reserves,
larger than the US, Russia, and larger than Saudi Arabia.
And China. China needs energy. They import essentially all of
(03:57):
their energy needs. Now, during the four years of the
Biden administration, it wasn't just a matter of Russia using
the occasion of US weakness to invade Ukraine. It wasn't
just that China began to militarily threaten Taiwan's sovereignty in
addition to tightening the ropes on Hong Kong. It wasn't
(04:18):
just that they had gained influence over the Panama Canal.
It wasn't just that China became the top trading partner
for Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela, but also that
China began populating those countries in mass Did you know. Yeah,
you've had the Islamic one hundred year plan to take
(04:41):
over the West through population. By the way, we're I
think in year fifty one or two now of that plan.
But you've also had China doing their own version of it.
And by the way, China did not stop there. So
back to Greenland for a moment. Falling Maduro's alster. Speculation
(05:02):
has been running rampant about what Trump might order next.
Could he try to remove Columbia or Brazil's presidents? What
about Putin? Maybe maybe it'll be the Danish PM. Maybe
she'll just go missing. By the way, for anybody thinking
that she's safe, not Trump's type. It just after all,
(05:25):
President Trump did say once again we need Greenland for
national security reasons, said that just yesterday. This is why
she's the Danish PM. All freaking out now. While many
Americans still aren't sure what to make of all this,
many tds rs around the world, including the Danish PM,
(05:46):
are scared that Trump is going to try to take
over the world. There's this a story out of Arctic Today.
Before I get to the Arctic Today story though, about
Venezuela and where things stand. White House Press Secretary Caroline eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We have a lot of leverage over the remaining Madurero
government right now. I know Secretary Rubio is in constant
correspondence with them. We're going to make sure this country
aligns with the interests of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There you go, and maybe today you'll hear in the pressure.
We've got a lot of leverage over the Danish PM.
She doesn't have a lot going on there, just you know. Now, Okay,
So a story out of Arctic Today. Probably not something
you thought you'd hear me talking about. Probably not something
(06:37):
you knew existed, based on Joel's reaction. Definitely not something
you knew existed, right I No, I can honestly say,
I've never heard of Arctic Today. So you never, like
your daily news consumption didn't start with MS now and
then go to Arctic today. No, no, all right, So,
(07:01):
assuming that Arctic Today is not part of your daily
news consumption, consider this headline my second takeaway today. Greenland
warns it may turn to China if US and EU
shun mining investments. Huh where'd that coming from? The lead?
(07:23):
The line to the article is this, Greenland's government is
calling on the United States and European Union to step
up investments in its mining sector or risk losing influence
in the Arctic to China. Yes, Greenland is actually asking
(07:44):
for the US to get involved there. Now, their idea
about how they want the US involved and Trump's idea
much different. Little and so. But that's what's going on
over there right now. This isn't Randos stuff. Now, imagine
for a moment what the future for US would look
like if China had total control of the Panama Canal,
(08:04):
proxy governments in place in most Central and South American countries,
control of Venezuela's oil supply, control of Greenland's rare earth minerals,
and the ability to base operations from Cuba. How do
you think that works out for us in the end?
You think that goes well? So it's like this, President
(08:24):
Trump is not trying to take over the world. However,
China and its access proxy's had been and what Trump
has been systematically doing since becoming president two point zero
is to very carefully roll back China's systemic takeover of
the Americas and to isolate the Axis powers from one another.
(08:49):
Trump's aggressive foreign policy maneuvers they're not at all a
diversion from America First policy. This is what some people
and like, you know, I'm a big fan of Rand
Paul in a lot of respects. There's a lot about
libertarianism that I think is on point. I am not
a hey, let's go do wars kind of thing. By
the way, neither is Trump. And that's kind of the point.
(09:09):
The blind circle here for a lot of people is
the moment that another country is involved. You can't do that.
It's not the way it works, or else you're fighting
World War three in South Florida. You want that. This
is America First policy. Trump is preventing World War three
(09:30):
from happening on our soil while protecting US economic interests
and American jobs. All of his foreign policy actions as
president have been geared towards peace, in US defense and
economic interests. What's already happened, and what is happening is
all part of this realigning countries with US interests as
(09:53):
opposed to Chinese interests. It is entirely in our interest,
the free world's interests. And on that note, President Trump
also stated yesterday the Cuba is ready to fall following
the Jarists capture. Notice how China Russia have been relatively
quiet during all this pretty good indication that Trump's plan
is working. And perhaps Cuba, in addition to Venezuela, might
be free, might soon be free and prosperous. Imagine that,
(10:15):
and align with the US as opposed to China and Russia.
There's been so much more to the story than meets
the eye. But speaking of failed leaders, this.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Guy I came to the conclusion that I can't give
a political campaign my all. Every minute that I spend
defending my own political interest would be a minute I
can't spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals
who pray on our generosity and the cynics who want
to prey on our differences.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Now, yeah, I'm my third takeaway today. Tim Ponie is out.
So yesterday Nicholas Majoro and his wife pled not guilty
to hosts of narco terror and drug trafficking charges. They'll
now sit in jail until their March seventeenth court date.
While that plays out, another that of news played out
in Minnesota yesterday that one as layers of the Somali
da Here fraud onion continue to be peeled back, suggesting
that oh maybe the fraud could extend to as high
(11:05):
as nine billion dollars in fraud now dating back to
twenty eighteen, all under the watch of Minnesota Governor Tim
Walls No the governor previously best known for instituting the
policy of installing tampon dispensers and boys locker rooms and
looking like Elmer Fudd while running for president vice president.
He announced he was dropping his reelection vide yesterday. So
(11:25):
the end of Wallace's political career nine and the question
now is whether his freedom could be too. Was Wallace
truly that incompetent or was he complicit? And his desire
to drop out might be an effort to try to
get some of that future prosecutorial heat off of him.
So there's much more to the smally story of corruption.
(11:46):
But actually, when you start to think about it, the
biggest question isn't whether Walls in Minnesota's A g Elson
were guilty of looking the other way due to the
desire to win the Somali vote in Minnesota, which is
something on two itself when you think about it, but
whether similar behaviors exist in other blue states. If that
(12:06):
much fraud can happen in a relatively small blue state,
what's happening, for example, in the Golden State.
Welcome to the Brian Munt Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh it is about so much more than venezuela and oil,
So much more than venezuela and oil, Dog Grahamlin, don't
you know, oh man, There's been a lot over the
past day, a lot over the past couple of days that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Needs to be addressed. I tackle a lot of the
analysis yesterday. Let me dive in a bit more here,
and I'm actually gonna start with the whole Greenland thing
for a moment. Why is it that Trump is talking
about Greenland again? What is is he? Is? He just
trying to ruffle the feathers of the Danish Prime minister.
(00:55):
She's pretty nervous. Gotta rigged out. Here's fox is Jonathan? Said?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredericson says she believes President Trump's
ongoing threat to seize control of Greenland could have catastrophic consequences.
The island is a semi autonomous part of the Kingdom
of Denmark, strategically crucial and mineral rich.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, all right, so Danish PM scared. You never know
what Trump's gonna do. He's a crazy man, don't you know.
All Right, So Trump is talking about Greenland again for
the same reason he was last January. It wasn't like
he forgot about it and it's like, oh yeah, we
got Maduro Greenland. It's also for the same reason that
(01:43):
he acted to end Chinese influencer for the Pandama Canal,
for the same reason he made the rounds in the
Middle East last spring. It's related to the similar reason
he dropped the mops on Ron's nuclear facilities, for the
same reason he ordered the operation to arrest and to
extradite Miduro and his wife, and actually for the same
(02:06):
reason that thirty two Cuban intelligence officials were confirmed by
Cuba to have been killed in Venezuela during the operation
to remove and extradite Maduro on Saturday. Oh, by the way,
I don't know if you had heard that one not
being widely reported. First, doesn't sound like the common intel
(02:26):
machine's doing too well these days. But the other is yes,
lest you have any doubt about how I'm always talking
about these new access countries working together, there you go.
It's also for the same reason that for the better
part of a decade. You have frequently heard me say
(02:50):
this that China isn't just China. China is Russia, It's Iran,
it's North Korea. What does North Korea have They have
a little rocket man. It's Cuba, It's Venezuela, and it's Nicaragua.
(03:15):
And as I explaining yesterday's Q and I, the reason
China and Russia two major economies, militaries players on the
world stage, even bother with the other countries, is all strategic.
Noko has nukes, Iran has oil. Cuba has proximity to
the United States. Nicaragua has vast natural resources, including rare
(03:36):
earths and venezuela. And you talk about oil, they got oil,
all right. They sit on the world's largest innergytury energy reserves,
larger than the US, Russia, and larger than Saudi Arabia.
And China. China needs energy. They import essentially all of
(03:57):
their energy needs. Now, during the four years of the
Biden administration, it wasn't just a matter of Russia using
the occasion of US weakness to invade Ukraine. It wasn't
just that China began to militarily threaten Taiwan's sovereignty in
addition to tightening the ropes on Hong Kong. It wasn't
(04:18):
just that they had gained influence over the Panama Canal.
It wasn't just that China became the top trading partner
for Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela, but also that
China began populating those countries in mass Did you know. Yeah,
you've had the Islamic one hundred year plan to take
(04:41):
over the West through population. By the way, we're I
think in year fifty one or two now of that plan.
But you've also had China doing their own version of it.
And by the way, China did not stop there. So
back to Greenland for a moment. Falling Maduro's alster. Speculation
(05:02):
has been running rampant about what Trump might order next.
Could he try to remove Columbia or Brazil's presidents? What
about Putin? Maybe maybe it'll be the Danish PM. Maybe
she'll just go missing. By the way, for anybody thinking
that she's safe, not Trump's type. It just after all,
(05:25):
President Trump did say once again we need Greenland for
national security reasons, said that just yesterday. This is why
she's the Danish PM. All freaking out now. While many
Americans still aren't sure what to make of all this,
many tds rs around the world, including the Danish PM,
(05:46):
are scared that Trump is going to try to take
over the world. There's this a story out of Arctic Today.
Before I get to the Arctic Today story though, about
Venezuela and where things stand. White House Press Secretary Caroline eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We have a lot of leverage over the remaining Madurero
government right now. I know Secretary Rubio is in constant
correspondence with them. We're going to make sure this country
aligns with the interests of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There you go, and maybe today you'll hear in the pressure.
We've got a lot of leverage over the Danish PM.
She doesn't have a lot going on there, just you know. Now, Okay,
So a story out of Arctic Today. Probably not something
you thought you'd hear me talking about. Probably not something
(06:37):
you knew existed, based on Joel's reaction. Definitely not something
you knew existed, right I No, I can honestly say,
I've never heard of Arctic Today. So you never, like
your daily news consumption didn't start with MS now and
then go to Arctic today. No, no, all right, So,
(07:01):
assuming that Arctic Today is not part of your daily
news consumption, consider this headline my second takeaway today. Greenland
warns it may turn to China if US and EU
shun mining investments. Huh where'd that coming from? The lead?
(07:23):
The line to the article is this, Greenland's government is
calling on the United States and European Union to step
up investments in its mining sector or risk losing influence
in the Arctic to China. Yes, Greenland is actually asking
(07:44):
for the US to get involved there. Now, their idea
about how they want the US involved and Trump's idea
much different. Little and so. But that's what's going on
over there right now. This isn't Randos stuff. Now, imagine
for a moment what the future for US would look
like if China had total control of the Panama Canal,
(08:04):
proxy governments in place in most Central and South American countries,
control of Venezuela's oil supply, control of Greenland's rare earth minerals,
and the ability to base operations from Cuba. How do
you think that works out for us in the end?
You think that goes well? So it's like this, President
(08:24):
Trump is not trying to take over the world. However,
China and its access proxy's had been and what Trump
has been systematically doing since becoming president two point zero
is to very carefully roll back China's systemic takeover of
the Americas and to isolate the Axis powers from one another.
(08:49):
Trump's aggressive foreign policy maneuvers they're not at all a
diversion from America First policy. This is what some people
and like, you know, I'm a big fan of Rand
Paul in a lot of respects. There's a lot about
libertarianism that I think is on point. I am not
a hey, let's go do wars kind of thing. By
the way, neither is Trump. And that's kind of the point.
(09:09):
The blind circle here for a lot of people is
the moment that another country is involved. You can't do that.
It's not the way it works, or else you're fighting
World War three in South Florida. You want that. This
is America First policy. Trump is preventing World War three
(09:30):
from happening on our soil while protecting US economic interests
and American jobs. All of his foreign policy actions as
president have been geared towards peace, in US defense and
economic interests. What's already happened, and what is happening is
all part of this realigning countries with US interests as
(09:53):
opposed to Chinese interests. It is entirely in our interest,
the free world's interests. And on that note, President Trump
also stated yesterday the Cuba is ready to fall following
the Jarists capture. Notice how China Russia have been relatively
quiet during all this pretty good indication that Trump's plan
is working. And perhaps Cuba, in addition to Venezuela, might
be free, might soon be free and prosperous. Imagine that,
(10:15):
and align with the US as opposed to China and Russia.
There's been so much more to the story than meets
the eye. But speaking of failed leaders, this.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Guy I came to the conclusion that I can't give
a political campaign my all. Every minute that I spend
defending my own political interest would be a minute I
can't spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals
who pray on our generosity and the cynics who want
to prey on our differences.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Now, yeah, I'm my third takeaway today. Tim Ponie is out.
So yesterday Nicholas Majoro and his wife pled not guilty
to hosts of narco terror and drug trafficking charges. They'll
now sit in jail until their March seventeenth court date.
While that plays out, another that of news played out
in Minnesota yesterday that one as layers of the Somali
da Here fraud onion continue to be peeled back, suggesting
that oh maybe the fraud could extend to as high
(11:05):
as nine billion dollars in fraud now dating back to
twenty eighteen, all under the watch of Minnesota Governor Tim
Walls No the governor previously best known for instituting the
policy of installing tampon dispensers and boys locker rooms and
looking like Elmer Fudd while running for president vice president.
He announced he was dropping his reelection vide yesterday. So
(11:25):
the end of Wallace's political career nine and the question
now is whether his freedom could be too. Was Wallace
truly that incompetent or was he complicit? And his desire
to drop out might be an effort to try to
get some of that future prosecutorial heat off of him.
So there's much more to the smally story of corruption.
(11:46):
But actually, when you start to think about it, the
biggest question isn't whether Walls in Minnesota's A g Elson
were guilty of looking the other way due to the
desire to win the Somali vote in Minnesota, which is
something on two itself when you think about it, but
whether similar behaviors exist in other blue states. If that
(12:06):
much fraud can happen in a relatively small blue state,
what's happening, for example, in the Golden State.
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