Tag: Greenland
Framework But No Paperwork
Donald Trump bumbled about WEF at Davos like a clown,
But he made a Greenland deal before leaving town.
He came away with a framework,
But alas, with no paperwork,
Because oddly, through a clerical error (?), nobody wrote anything down.
Not Your Uncle’s MAGA
The Danes and Greenlanders have something to say:
Ownership of Greenland is emphatically not in play.
But MAGA says it’s Greenland’s fate:
Lose sovereignty to make America great.
But the resistance has its own MAGA: Make America Go Away.
We’re in Full King Lear Mode
“Yes, it’s real. He really did write that letter to the Norwegian PM, whining (once again) about not getting the Nobel Prize and declaring that since he didn’t get the Prize, ‘I no longer feel any obligation to think purely of Peace.’ And no, you are not the crazy ones if you think we have fallen down a black hole of mad king dementia. … ‘Unhinged’ doesn’t really capture this moment, where we find ourselves in a full-blown crisis because our president is butt-hurt about losing an award no one was ever going to give him. And now we are left actually wondering if our military commanders would obey an order to fire upon our closest allies.”
— Charlie Sykes
Kelly: Taking Greenland Would Be the Worst Presidential Decision Ever
“It ?would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country. For us to threaten them, especially with force, that we’re just gonna take your stuff; we’re gonna take your territory—is that who we’ve become? That’s Russia. We are not that kind of a nation.”
— Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), in an interview with The Atlantic, on President Trump threatening to take over Greenland.
A U.S. Attack on Greenland Would End NATO
“I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.”
— “Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that if Donald Trump were to attack the Danish island of Greenland that would mean the end of the NATO alliance,” Bloomberg reports.
A Goniff for Pontiff?
A 100-plus days in and we’re just trying to cope,
As Trump’s imperial presidency becomes more than a trope.
He wants to be governor of Canada
And Greenland‘s Grand Poobah,
And the megalomaniac even imagines himself as Pope.
