Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
On this week’s episode, Antle explains why time may be President Donald Trump’s greatest enemy during his second term, focusing on the midterm elections, concerns about age, and the political limits of a narrow Republican majority in Congress.
“Naturally, this June, he’s going to turn 80. He will be the second president to turn 80 while in office. The first was Joe Biden,” Antle said. “Clearly, we’re not seeing any of the kind of age-related issues with President Trump that we saw with former President Biden, but the media will be very eager to look for the types of things that they turned a blind eye to when Biden was in office.”
Antle is joined by Washington Examiner columnist and Wall Street Journal Contributor, Dominic Green, to discuss Trump’s interest in Greenland, the strategic importance, and the growing anxiety among U.S. allies.
“There is gold beneath the ice,” Green said. “That gold takes the form of critical minerals and rare earth elements. These are rare, hard, and dirty to extract but critical in modern technology from the screen of your smartphones to the weapons system of an F-35.”
Green explains that this has gradually become more of a priority to the United States.
The first Trump administration assembled a list of these elements, and the Biden administration passed the CHIPS and Science Act, as part of the effort to onshore production.
Green stated Trump’s initial comments about leaving open the possibility of using military force rattled U.S. partners overseas.
“This caused considerable distress,” Green said. “Even though European leaders are used to being distressed by President Trump’s behavior.”
Green later said, after the meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that Europeans concluded Trump was signalling a willingness to negotiate, adding that now there seem to be deals being made.
In an exclusive interview with Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), featured in this week’s magazine, the Washington Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli learned Trump credits Abbott’s approach to the border for clinching the president’s reelection in 2024.
“After he was elected, Trump called me and thanked me for what I did in the busing program,” Abbott said. “He said it shined a white-hot spotlight on a very important issue, and suddenly he was able to gain traction on that issue, and that was one pivotal reason why he was elected to be president.”
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