Donald Trump announced on Truth Social he’d secured the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland on Thursday, but as for the details? That’s basically it.
Seth Meyers took “A Closer Look” at the president’s deal (?) with NATO on Late Night, including the fact that Trump referred to the timeframe as “infinite” without supplying terms, a timeline, or any other details.
“How do you have, like, no more details about a deal you just made for a thing only you want. You sound like you’re doing a book report on a book you didn’t read, but it’s worse, because it’s a book you wrote,” says Meyers. “It’s like if JD Salinger got up in front of the class and said, ‘Uh, Catcher in the Rye is about, like, a baseball game or something. It takes place in like, a bakery, maybe.'”
Meyers then finished his monologue examining reports on why Trump backed down on his Greenland demands, after threatening tariffs and refusing to rule out using military force.
“This dumb episode’s yet another example of what happens when Trump encounters even minimal resistance, he backs down,” Meyers said. “It’s a lesson opposition leaders here and abroad should remember.”
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