Trump’s second term: ‘Reality has overtaken satire’
Marc Lamont Hill sits down with The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel to unpack the first year of Trump’s second term.

Marc Lamont Hill sits down with The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel to unpack the first year of Trump’s second term.





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US President Donald Trump dropped his threat to impose tariffs on European countries over his bid to takeover Greenland.
Trump reiterated his push for US control of Greenland, criticised Europe and laid out his foreign policy priorities.
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Greenlanders reacted with sceptical relief to Donald Trump ruling out military force to take the territory.
US president says ‘framework of a future deal’ on Greenland and wider Arctic region reached with NATO chief Mark Rutte.
Analysts say US actions have ended the post-war order, but how much that ‘order’ applied to the Global South is unclear.
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Donald Trump said the US needs “ownership” of Greenland, but he “won’t use force” to acquire the territory.
The world’s largest island sits in the Arctic Circle and is strategically and economically valuable.
Trump has angered European leaders with his Greenland ambitions and tariffs-for-all-who-oppose approach.
Party leaders vow to hammer Trump on affordability in months ahead, with Venezuela, Greenland their latest cudgels.

Macron said Europe will not be “intimidated” by US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs over Greenland.