"Do me this favor: If you see headlines today proclaiming that the big takeaway from Trump’s speech was that he renounced the use of military force to take Greenland, ignore them. That’s not what actually happened."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism #Davos
/15

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-davos-world-economic-forum-rant

"Do me this favor: If you see headlines today proclaiming that the big takeaway from Trump’s speech was that he renounced the use of military force to take Greenland, ignore them. That’s not what actually happened."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism #Davos
/15

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-davos-world-economic-forum-rant

"Trump continued to read names and lists of charges, sometimes without even looking at the camera. Instead, it appeared he was simply reading brand-new information aloud to himself. ...

'Look,' Trump said, holding up another page. 'Killed someone.'”

~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/205457/donald-trump-press-conference-reading-aloud

"a liar who frequently screwed over business partners, a convicted criminal who thinks it’s unfair if laws apply to him, and a rapist who likes taking things without consent.

None of that was remotely hidden when Americans decided to elect him a second time."

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/14

"Some call Trump’s threats against an ally 'insane' or 'mad king' behavior—and it is by traditional American values—but it fits an aspiring autocrat who called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 'savvy' and 'genius,' an anti-democracy narcissist who sees wealth and glory for himself as a paramount national interest," (continued in /14)

~ Nicholas Grossman

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/13

https://www.arcdigital.media/p/with-greenland-threats-trump-is-destroying

"All I can say is that this is a letter [by Trump to the Norwegian PM] whose every sentence could never have been written by any predecessor, and which provides overpowering evidence for invoking the Twenty-Fifth."

~ Dan Perry

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/12

https://www.blueamp.co/p/time-for-the-twenty-fifth

But for Trump's Treasury Secretary, it's unfair to quote Trump's words

"Trump himself has told us what’s going on: he’s throwing a temper tantrum over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize — not how he put it, but that was the gist of his text to Norway’s prime minister. And there’s no reason to disbelieve him, even though Scott Bessent says that quoting Trump’s own words is a 'complete canard.'”

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/11

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-delusions-of-economic-leverage

"They’ve lost such prestige. Got all—that’s why I have such respect for Maria doing what she did. She said, ‘I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize, he does.’ When she got it, they named—they said, ‘Wow that’s amazing, I thought President Trump would get it.’”

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/10

"Trump continued to read names and lists of charges, sometimes without even looking at the camera. Instead, it appeared he was simply reading brand-new information aloud to himself. ...

'Look,' Trump said, holding up another page. 'Killed someone.'”

~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/205457/donald-trump-press-conference-reading-aloud

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Putin #NobelPeacePrize
/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zvj3GM7jjcl1aBdZ1V8ekk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"It’s time to say it: The president of the United States has lost his mind. ...

This is not just a national emergency, it is a global emergency.

Nothing is assured, but over the last few days it has become a real possibility that Trump will literally take the United States to war against our European allies."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
/5

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-president-of-the-united-states

"That’s an important question, the answer to which I believe lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore and the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat and sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #ReneeGood
/4

"It’s sundowning in America: A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose. ...

How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?"

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #Putin
/3

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundowning-in-america

"Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.

Think about where this is leading."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Putin #NobelPeacePrize
/2

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Putin #NobelPeacePrize
/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zvj3GM7jjcl1aBdZ1V8ekk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Pointing to Trump's letter to the Norwegian PM, Anne Applebaum says,

"The word 'bizarre' isn’t really sufficient to describe the strange things happening right now in Washington. ...

Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/11

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/trump-writes-a-letter-to-norway

Pointing to Trump's letter to the Norwegian PM, Anne Applebaum says,

"The word 'bizarre' isn’t really sufficient to describe the strange things happening right now in Washington. ...

Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/11

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/trump-writes-a-letter-to-norway

"We all knew it, but in the last few days he confirmed it. He is a baby with a full diaperload."

~ Gene Weingarten

I think it will be obvious who Weingarten means when he speaks of "he."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/10

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/tantrump

"Protests took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in Nuuk, Greenland, over the weekend. Thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against Trump’s plans to invade Greenland. Folks held signs that read 'Yankee Go Home' and 'No Annexation Without Representation,' and wore red hats that said 'Make America Go Away.'”

~ Scott Dworkin

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/9

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/kristi-noem-caught-lying-on-live

James Fallows offers a primer on Trump and Greenland:

1) This crisis is all coming from someone’s gut. Not from anyone’s brain.

2) The US has nothing to gain by ‘owning’ Greenland. Zero.

3) No one wants us there. Zero.

4) Greenland is smaller than you think. But the distances and remoteness are larger.

5) The whole idea of taking over Greenland would appall the founders of our country.

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/6

https://fallows.substack.com/p/your-primer-on-greenland