Trump Gets The Last Laugh

The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino discusses Donald Trump's strategic approach to a new agreement involving Greenland, framing it as a classic 'Art of the Deal' maneuver designed to

Key takeaways

• Trump's Greenland strategy utilizes a maximalist position to negotiate a permanent US security footprint.
• The Greenland deal aims to prevent China and Russia from establishing military bases or sensitive investments in the region.

Main topics

• Trump's Greenland Deal
• Media Hypocrisy and Press Access

Notable quotes

Start with a wild ask... Start huge, create leverage, then land the part you actually came for.

Conclusion

The episode serves as a sharp critique of modern media narratives and

Transcript preview

Speaker 8 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 2 (0:10) How many times? Speaker 3 (0:13) How many times do we have to go Speaker 7 (0:14) through this? Not with you, my frustrations. Not with you, my frustrations with the goons on the left, the media idiots, the doomers, the grifters, the bums, the zeros, the life losers. How many times do we have to go through this with Trump and the art of the freaking deal? Just read the freaking Speaker 3 (0:29) book. Justin, just read the book. The book is called, what book? Trump's book. The book is called The Art of the Deal. That's the book. How many times media people, I got a little pen. Some listener Speaker 7 (0:49) sent me this. It's a really nice pen. The wood is, he says it's from one of the old school nightsticks from the old police officers back in the day. Really nice pen. Take a pen. Doesn't have to be this one because it's mine. You Speaker 3 (0:59) can't have it. Take a pen and just take notes. How many times are you going to get burned by this? Of course, I'm talking about Greenland. Trump's crazy. He's a madman. This is an insane demand as if he doesn't do the same negotiating tactic. He ordered a freaking deal every freaking time. Every time. Every time. Justin, Speaker 7 (1:27) how long have you been working here? A long time? How many times have we gone through this? Speaker 3 (1:32) Too many. I'm trying to help you media people. Why? Because I'm a good soul. And I just Speaker 2 (1:40) need you to get off the Xanax and the Benzos every time Donald Trump says something in furtherance of a deal. I just, I can't have it. Speaker 2 (1:50) Oh, I got that. I had a great weekend. To my, I hope my adopted mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters in the South. Man, do I love you guys and ladies down there. I grew up a Yankee in New York. I'm a Northerner. I can't fake the funk. That's an N. In case you get this on radio. That's an N. I'm just saying, like, I feel like Speaker 7 (2:15) I was a little bit ripped off not growing up in the South. I'll show you some pics from this weekend coming up in a second. I got a lot of show for you today. Greenland, just read the book. A lot of Americans try those weight loss shots. A lot of them quit. Side effects, they don't really worry about that. Cost. Instead, I chose lean, L-E-A-N, to lose weight from Brickhouse Nutrition. There's no needles, no prescription. It just works. I lost 38 plus pounds on lean. You can too. Go to BrickHouseNutrition.com slash Dan. Use code Dan for 20 % off. BrickHouseNutrition.com slash Dan. Results vary. Product and statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any disease or condition. Thanks, BrickHouse Nutrition. We appreciate it. Today's show also brought to you by Delete Me. Sorry. Delete Me. What's Delete Me? 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Keep your private life private by signing up for Delete Me. Now at a special discount for our listeners. Do it today. Get 20 % off your Delete Me plan when you go to joindeleteme Speaker 2 (3:57) .com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino at checkout. The only way to get 20 % off is to go to joindeleteme.com Speaker 7 (4:04) slash Bongino. Enter code Bongino at checkout. That's joindeleteme.com slash Bongino. Code Bongino. Thank you, Delete Me. We appreciate it. Check it out. Speaker 7 (4:17) Yes, it is Monday. Where was I this weekend? No, it's not a Where's Waldo segment, and I don't like to burn a ton of time on my weekend updates. However, I had a damn good time this weekend because two teams I love, of course, Auburn, number one, and I love the Gators, too. But they played this weekend in Jordan Speaker 2 (4:35) -Hare down there in Auburn. And Speaker 3 (4:37) I went down there because I love me some Auburn football. Speaker 2 (4:40) However, Gators showed up. The Gators, I think, are a better team people give them credit for. There's me and the lovely Paula hanging there with the soon-to-be governor, current senator of the state of Alabama, and his proudest position, former Auburn coach. He's a senator. He prefers to be called coach. The great Tommy Tuberville. Got to hang out with him and his crew for a minute. It was awesome. If you haven't seen SEC football, folks, I'm sorry. This is not a sports show. You need to go down to an SEC. You want to love America even more, if it's even possible, go. to an SEC football game. I don't care if it's LSU. Texas, I don't care what it is. Oklahoma, I don't care. Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, this was me, my kids, and Paula on the sideline watching a flyover with the national anthem going on, the whole stadium singing. If you have not seen an SEC football game, whether you like football or not, I'm sorry, but you really haven't lived yet. You are missing out. It is a bucket list item for everyone. I love... The South, you folks down there have treated me like an adopted son. We walked around that place for probably 12 hours. Tailgates, we didn't even have a tailgate. We just like randomly showed up at other people's as they would call us. So we couldn't walk like 10 feet. It was just amazing to just, it reminds you again, I put out on Twitter this weekend, that there is a real world folks and there's a Twitter bot army. They're not the same thing. We probably took a thousand selfies. I got a funny story for you. This is quick. There's always like one chuckle head, though. So I'm walking down the sideline on the field for a little bit because they were nice enough to let us watch the eagle flight from the field. And I'm walking to this field box on the sideline. And Speaker 3 (6:31) everybody's Speaker 2 (6:31) like, ah, Bargino. I'm like, hey, I'm taking some selfies with people. Speaker 3 (6:34) This one dude, he must have been the only liberal in Auburn. I didn't tell you guys this, right? He's like a little bit. He could probably use some Ozempic, whatever. He starts like running down the stairs. I don't know what he was screaming, something crazy. Speaker 2 (6:47) I screamed something back, which... I wish I got that on video. The dude, I don't Speaker 3 (6:55) want anyone to fall or hurt themselves. As the crazy liberal guy in Auburn, probably the only one in Auburn, is running down the stairs with his belly juggling and everything. He almost falls on his face and he's got that look. You know the look when you're about to fall? Everybody starts laughing at him as he's screaming, Bongino, yeah! He doesn't even get that out of his mouth. So everybody's laughing at him. Poor guy. Speaker 2 (7:17) I feel for you. I hope you didn't hurt yourself. Didn't look like you took too bad of a spill, but control yourself. I know liberals, you got an issue with stuff. I'm a big believer in free speech. Throw all the F-bombs you want. However, when you're doing it running downstairs, you may want to pay attention to the next step first. Speaker 2 (7:36) Definitely not. Speaker 3 (7:37) This chucklehead man watching this guy. And the look, the rage look in his face. You Speaker 2 (7:42) know the rage look, the liberal rage look? Oh my gosh. I didn't know they had, there's like the one liberal in all of Auburn. Okay, so I got some important stuff Speaker 7 (7:50) to get to. I don't do a weekend update too often. However, you know, you guys are my family. I feel like you should know what's up. Thank you to the folks in the South. I really do. I feel like I missed out. There's never been more at home, man. told Paul, I gotta get a place down here in Auburn. I love it so much. So how many times we got to talk about this, the art of the deal? We have brought this up so many times. Of course, we're talking Speaker 2 (8:12) about Greenland, an incredible deal. Liberals, of course, are trying to play it down. It's the same deal as 1951. It is not the same deal. You're morons again. You're just upset that Trump is racking up W's left and right. Poverty rate lowest in U.S. history. Crime Speaker 7 (8:29) rate lowest in U.S. history. Murder rate, border closed, jobless rates lowest in my. Speaker 2 (8:35) Modern history, GDP projected to be 5%. You're just upset that POTUS, the boss, that he's there racking up dubs. W's left and right. You're just mad about it. You're just mad like Chucklehead guy who was running down the stairs and almost killed himself. You're just upset. You're peeing your diapers, you're clawing at your face, the saliva's coming down your fangs, you've got the wide-open, crazy liberal Cameron eyes. You almost fall down the stairs screaming and yelling like a lunatic. You've just got a case of the mads Speaker 7 (9:08) and Speaker 2 (9:08) the sads. Speaker 7 (9:10) David Brody's good man summed it up on X. Speaker 2 (9:12) I mean, if you don't believe me, believe him. We've only discussed this a thousand times. Leave this up if you could. Here is the Donald Trump negotiating tactic. How do I know this? Because if you just read the book, The Art of the Deal, from Trump, who's been doing deals his entire life in real estate and elsewhere, he talks about it all the time. Speaker 2 (9:32) You got your pens, Libs? Stake out a maximalist position. I want Greenland. We're going to take it over. That's not his real position. It's almost never his real position. His real position is probably 50 % of that. I would like a bigger footprint in Greenland with the cooperation of people in Greenland and Denmark as well. We didn't traditionally have a deal also where the people of Greenland were included to the degree they are now. That's the differentiator. Here's David Brody explaining it. The Greenland deal is classic Trump 101. Start with a wild ask. We should own Greenland. I.E., not to use fancy SAT words, a maximalist position that's probably not his real position. Start out there to reset the window on what's negotiable and what's not. Get everybody freaking out, which the media always does, and then negotiate towards what you really want. Thank you, David. And what did he want? This is more of his tweet. A bigger permanent U.S. security footprint in Greenland and a way to keep China and Russia out. Done. That's the deal. He notes you can hate the style, but this is how Trump deals. Start huge, create leverage, then land the part you actually came for. Holy Moses, how many times. Andrew, you haven't been here as long as these other guys. Justin, seriously, have we not discussed this art of the deal thing? Guy, you've been here at least 20 times with every freaking. Why do you look so depressed? Speaker 2 (10:58) Was he okay? That's true. That's just Guy's look. I should say. That's Guy's. He's like, dude, what do you mean? It reminds me of Maverick. Don't give me that look, man. It's the only one I got. This is Guy's look. But he's just happy. What are you talking about? He's Speaker 3 (11:14) sad. Guy's sad they keep falling for him. Here's the book. Liberals, please read it. Do we have to buy complimentary copies for everyone in the media? Speaker 2 (11:22) I'll do that. Here we go. Guys, just so you know. If you are from the New York Times, Washington Post, and let's throw in, let's throw Reuters in there. If you are a legitimate reporter and you want us to buy you a copy of The Art of the Deal, spread this on the web, folks, okay? Contact Justin on X. From your official verified account. And we will buy you a copy and send it to you. Is that okay? Just to stop. So you don't need as much Xanax and benzodiazepines Speaker 3 (11:52) and Valium. I'm just trying to save people's lives from the inevitable early morning heart attack. Every time Donald Trump takes a maximalist position, you freak out. Give me the nitro pills and the baby aspirin. I don't want to see you get dead. I don't. And you're going to get dead. because you freak out every time he does this and Speaker 2 (12:12) wins. Here's a clip from Fox News over the weekend on this amazing new deal. Folks, Speaker 7 (12:20) I'm going to explain to you in a second, because I think a lot of context is missing here too. All right, we were kind of joking around a little bit, but funny time's over, serious time. Speaker 7 (12:31) Again, in my prior line of work over the last year, you're briefed in quite often on things that the general public doesn't get, understandably. It's not like a flex. It's not me. Who cares? It's just true. The president knows things you don't know. I think that's fairly obvious. This is a good explanation. It's not so much classified. Obviously, it was on X, but it's a really great video. I'm going to play a Fox clip first. I'm going to show you some other Speaker 2 (12:55) videos, short and sweet, of why this is such a momentous deal. And when you see it in video and picture, it'll make sense why Donald Trump was able to do what no president was able to do for decades, which is inking a more significant footprint in Greenland with the people of Greenland on board. Speaker 7 (13:13) Check out this Fox clip on what went down. Speaker 5 (13:39) pleased to announce the United States of America has entered into an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland that gives the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland, completely addressing all of our many U.S. concerns there. There will be no cost to the United States. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can ever have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland. or make sensitive investments in Greenland without our express written approval. In July, the president spoke about strategic significance the island offers. Watch. Speaker 1 (14:16) Greenland is very important for the United States, but it's not important for Denmark. In fact, we took Greenland and then stupidly we gave it back. We shouldn't have given it back to them because we're the ones that need it. We need it for protection of the world, not just the United States. And it's very important. It doesn't help Denmark, but it helps us. And it's very important for us. Speaker 2 (14:37) Glenn says in the chat, smart move. Denmark led. You finally see the threat. It is a smart move. This is one of those rare geopolitical events. And I do mean rare because a lot of geopolitics, world politics is zero sum, meaning what benefits the United States candidly may not benefit Grenada or Canada. This is one of those rare deals where folks, everybody wins. Everybody wins. The people of Greenland have sovereignty. The people of Greenland, if they want to vote for independence later, we still have a deal. We get permanent basing. It doesn't lock out NATO. Matter of fact, it expands our NATO relationship. It only locks out people who want to do bad stuff, China and Speaker 3 (15:17) Russia. This is the rare deal where everybody wins and the media is still bitching and moaning. Somebody said to me this Speaker 2 (15:25) weekend, I'll footnote it if I can in the future, if I remember, but they said the media loves their BMWs. And I said, BMW, what are you talking about? Speaker 3 (15:32) Bitching, moaning, and whining. 100%. That's all they do. It's okay to say this is a good deal and we still hate Donald Trump. I don't agree with you. I love the guy. However, it's okay to say it's a good deal. We're living in Speaker 2 (15:50) an era, folks, of hypersonic missiles, hypersonic drones, underwater drones, nuclear weapons. automated intelligence and artificial intelligence, potential AGI, bot armies everywhere. You think it's important that maybe we secure shipping routes and a quick missile path to the United States from Russia that might, where Greenland would be a Speaker 3 (16:14) strategic element for us that could stop these threats? It's okay to say that's a good thing. You can stop with the BMWs. You can stop that now. Change your diabetes, Speaker 2 (16:27) stop