A key portion of the NBC News interview with MTP anchor Kristen and U. Senator James Lankford:
"KRISTEN WELKER:
Senator, finally I have to get your reaction to comments this week. President-elect Trump not ruling out using military force to take Greenland, which is a territory of Denmark which is a NATO ally. Do you support that type of action against a NATO ally?
SEN. JAMES LANKFORD:
The United States is not going to invade another country. That's not who we are. The – the president speaks very boldly on a lot of things. We've seen this over how he's done negotiations, whether it be for real estate or how he served as a great president just four years ago. He makes a bold statement. He gets everyone to the table. You sit down to be able to talk it out. He's done with Canada, with Mexico, with Panama. He's going to continue to do this. Quite frankly the president's been very clear. He is the president that kept American troops out of war. He is not looking to be able to go start a war to go expand American troops. But he does want to be able to protect America's national security. And part of that's our economic security and our future."
From NBC News
I think this is the key point here with Senator Lankford: "The United States is not going to invade another country. That's not who we are. The – the president speaks very boldly on a lot of things. We've seen this over how he's done negotiations, whether it be for real estate or how he served as a great president just four years ago. He makes a bold statement. He gets everyone to the table."
This brings up a key point about Donald Trump from the first time when he was President of the United States (which was way more than enough for about 1/2 of the country) about whether we as a country should take Donald J. Trump seriously, or literally.
And Mr. Trump's supporters say we should take him seriously. But I imagine a certain majority of the country would still like to take the President of the United States seriously. And perhaps I'm being too idealistic here since we've lied too over and over by really every President of the United States, since Lyndon B. Johnson, at least. So it's easy to see why a lot of Americans, regardless of what their political background is, wouldn't automatically take the word of a sitting President of the United States, seriously. And just write off a lot of what the man says:
"Oh, he's just being Donald. He says things like that all the time as some negotiating tool or something".
But when a Democrat does that, MAGA and company act like the President meant every word of what they said before and treat the President like he's a liar, or losing his mind, or a combination of those things.
You could also argue that Donald Trump is a smart enough man (or smart enough politician, at least) to know that Americans are used to being lied to by their politicians. Especially their politicians, even their President's and that a lot of them never pay a price for it.
So what Mr. Trump does is knowing that he has a political base that sees him as God and therefor would never fault him for anything, regardless of the facts and evidence him and the stronger the facts and evidence against him, the more loyal MAGA to him... he simply takes advantage of that and lies his head off whenever he thinks it would benefit him. Knowing that the Democrats and the mainstream media will freak out about it. Which keeps him in the news and drives up his fundraising numbers.
So my advice for Democrats and the mainstream media, is not look like a school of fish on an underwater suicide mission. When Donald Trump says something crazy like we should invade a NATO ally, whether it's Greenland or anyone else, don't take the bait and ignore him. It's when he does something crazy, irresponsible, illegal, and constitutional things, that's when the Democrats and the mainstream media need to be prepared to act.
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