Before I throw my chicken soup in my slow cooker, and before I take advantage of this holiday from work to release a package of minor improvements and fixes for bugs I discovered using the new Daily Parker blog engine for a week, I need to mention the latest clear and convincing evidence that the OAFPOTUS has lost his mind and needs to be removed from power.
This morning, the government of Norway and some of our own embassies abroad released a letter the head of our government sent to the head of theirs. Schoolchildren will read about this letter centuries from now:
Dear Jonas [Gahr Støre, prime minister of Norway]:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
If an assistant manager at a Wendy's had written this letter, he'd be fired on the spot. You wouldn't tolerate this from an 8th grader. As Adam Kinzinger said, it's time to put him in a home:
This is not parody. This is not a meme. This is not a joke taken out of context. This is the sitting president of the United States explaining how he thinks.
That is not strength. That is not realism. That is not America First.
It is grievance-driven governance, powered by ego and resentment, with nuclear consequences.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a warning.
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.
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.
James Fallows tries to make sense of "what the hell is this about?" and shrugs:
Does the Trump-era obsession with Greenland seem completely irrational? That’s because it is—as no less an authority than Trump himself has told us.
Because the feeling of ownership is “psychologically important” for this one damaged man, the US is throwing alliances and interests built over centuries into a bonfire. Great. But not what Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson had in mind.
This showdown has gone from idiotic to actually dangerous.
As a child I was afraid during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. In retrospect, it was in fact the closest the world has come to nuclear devastation, in the 80+ years since the first use of atomic weapons, by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I am afraid now when I think that one un-informed, gut-driven man is breaking up alliances, imposing tariffs by decree, and putting our collective fate in his bandaged, shaky, undersized hands.
I think we all need to remember the words of Jane Goodall: "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
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