Transcript: Trump Will Invade Another Country Unless We Stop Him

Bacon: Talk about what you want Democrats in Congress, and then Democrats in America, to do about this. What should their reaction be—both groups?

Greenberg: Look, fundamentally, we know this administration’s M.O.: They do something awful, they see what kind of blowback they get, and if they’re able to get away with it, then they do more and they escalate. And so I think it’s very important that right now we are collectively outraged, in action, in motion, and creating as much backlash as possible in reaction to what has happened in order to avert future and further escalations and interventions.

We are seeing Trump, as of the last couple of days, rattling his saber at Cuba and at Mexico and at Greenland. It is extraordinarily important that his interpretation and his cronies’ interpretation of what happens here is not: I took this aggressive action, I got away with it. I should try doing that again and again. And that means a combination of popular backlash; that means everyone continuing to mobilize pressure on their own elected representatives, Republicans or Democrats.