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This Week and Next: Trump Is Going To Kill America.

A week that was extraordinary and off the rails. Midterms are too far off to matter. The man needs to be removed. How? Doesn't matter. He has to go.

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Jan 17, 2026
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This week’s chaos in Minnesota—the DOJ investigating Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, ICE officers shooting a woman in the face—pales in comparison to what looks like the prelude to World War Three.

On Saturday, the President announced via social media that he would impose escalating tariffs on eight NATO allies until they surrender Greenland, a territory whose people—85% of whom oppose joining America—have begged him to leave alone. The tariffs target Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland, starting at 10% in February and rising to 25% by June. The pretext? That these allies participated in Arctic military exercises to which the United States was invited. The actual reason? A 79-year-old man in apparent cognitive decline, exhibiting the textbook narcissistic inability to tolerate rejection, has confused his personal fixations with national security.

And this is merely Saturday’s entry in wh…

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