Morning Joe goes off on 'Trump's 'insanity' for attempting to take Greenland

Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted to quell threats from President Donald Trump to seize the Danish island of Greenland by telling lawmakers that Trump wants to use taxpayer dollars to purchase the island, its minerals and 30,000 people.

Speaking about the attempt to seize or buy the island against the will of the residents, MS NOW co-host Joe Scarborough unleashed fury on Trump and his efforts to pillage across the world.

"Let me just say, again, because I understand that there are a lot of people that say things like this, that it's a military option, that I don't know, maybe, maybe they're playing with coloring books before they say things like this," began an annoyed Scarborough. "Let me explain again. The United States GDP is around $25, $26, $27 trillion. Europe's GDP is around $ 23- $25 trillion. Russia's is like $1.4 trillion. It's how powerful we are when we stand shoulder to shoulder next to our allies that help us defeat Nazism. That helps us defeat communism, that will help us together overcome the threat from China."

Instead, Scarborough said, Trump is focused on Venezuela and Greenland at a time "China is eating our lunch across the globe."

"We're talking about all of these 19th-century pursuits when China is rushing headfirst into the 21st-century race militarily, economically, diplomatically and most importantly, Jim Vandehei would certainly say technologically on AI," he continued.

"This is insanity to talk about going into Greenland, Venezuela," he unleashed. "We don't know what it's going to be like moving forward. And it doesn't look great right now. But Greenland — that shatters the international order that has benefited the United States time and time again. It's madness."

At another point, he gave a quick history lesson "for idiots out there that say, oh, well, America's been suckers." He noted that the U.S. has been in charge of the world order since 1947.

Actions by the U.S. "led to the American century, led to American dominance, led to America's military by and far being the strongest military in the history of mankind, led us to be the most powerful country when it comes to soft power, led us to become the most powerful economic machine in history in world history," he said.

Now, that new world order is beginning "to crumble piece by piece" as Trump undermines "the NATO alliance" and begins to suggest the U.S. would invade a NATO ally.