The Daily Show: Ears Edition This Week's News | Josh on Trump's Peace Prize Vendetta, Greenland Gambit & First-Year Accomplishments
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Jan 24, 2026 Coverage of a presidential push to buy Greenland and the bizarre talk of military options. A fixation on winning a Nobel Peace Prize and the theatrics around receiving one secondhand. A satirical review of first-year promises contrasted with what was accomplished for personal benefit.
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Prize Pursuit Warps Behavior
- Josh Johnson highlights Trump's obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize as driving erratic foreign policy moves.
- That craving reframes peace gestures as performative leverage rather than principled aims.
Peace As A Conditional Tactic
- Trump linked not receiving the Nobel to abandoning peaceful restraint in a text to Norway's prime minister.
- Josh frames that as a revealing admission that his peace posture was conditional and performative.
Spectacle Replaces Strategy
- Trump escalated by publicly posting private texts and an AI image of planting a flag on Greenland.
- Josh argues these moves amplify instability and signal transactional diplomacy.