Forget Greenland… how will the rest of us survive a second Trump presidency?

January 20th, 2029… that’s 1,473 days away. And, just when the assembled journalists think they can’t cope with any more cobblers, he solemnly puts the United States on the road to war with Panama and Denmark, plus a crippling economic war with Canada – unless it agrees to become the 51st state of the Union. This time, it’s different – hundreds of personally loyal Maga-ites appointed to the key jobs, often spectacularly unqualified, whose fealty is to Trump, not the US constitution, and who believe that the election result last November gives him a mandate to do whatever he likes. He’s serious, by the sound of things, and we should believe him when he says, as he does, that: “For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” Trump refuses to rule out the use of military force, and is preparing the ground by suggesting that Denmark’s formal sovereignty over self-governing Greenland is illegitimate, even though the Danes have been around for longer than the United States has existed. Rather slyly – Trump is not without guile – he threw this into his verbal chop suey: “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security.” Well, however true that is, Greenland sure as hell isn’t American, and never has been.