"Unless in your mind you think Alaska lives in a box next to Hawaii. But no, no, no. I get it, I get it. We don't want Russia or China to take over Greenland. Oh, you know what we could do to deter it? Not through arrogance or conquest, but what if we formed like kind of an alliance with Denmark and Greenland? We could include all of the North Atlantic nations. What would we call this? Like almost like a North Atlantic Treaty Organization."
"Can someone pass him a note? How do you think we got our land?! reacted Stewart. We landed here on a f*cking boat 500 years ago, and it was ours! He concluded, That's like the argument you make when you want to give land back to the people who were already there, not for you to then take it because you've got a bigger boat. You're doing some weird reverse woke land acknowledgement."
Jon Stewart ridiculed President Trump's suggestion that the United States should annex Greenland to prevent Russia or China from becoming neighbors. Stewart pointed out that Alaska already places Russia closer to the United States than Greenland does and displayed a map to illustrate the proximity. Stewart proposed forming an alliance with Denmark, Greenland and other North Atlantic nations as an alternative to annexation. The exchange included Trump saying Denmark's historical boat landing did not prove ownership and Stewart retorting that Europeans claimed land after landing and mocking the idea of taking land because of a bigger boat, calling it a 'reverse woke land acknowledgement.'
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