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The Trump train is speeding up towards the cliff with the entire American public trapped on board.
25th Amendment?
Impeachment?
Military removal with Vance installed as president with a warning to follow the constitution and international law?
The hand of "Gawd?"
Isn't it terrifying that the entire GOP is thrilled will the speed of the Trump train while completely ignoring the cliff...
displacedvermoter
(4,185 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(6,950 posts)Its a classic but it works. 😉
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,683 posts)trump is mentally ill
Link to tweet
The letter reportedly ties Norways Nobel Peace Prize decision to Greenland, questions Denmarks right of ownership, and declares the world isnt secure unless the U.S. has Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
PBSs Nick Schifrin reported the text was obtained from multiple officials and circulated by NSC staff to European ambassadors.
It reads like a meme.
Its not.

Here is another version

LetMyPeopleVote
(175,683 posts)I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, the president said in a truly bizarre text message to Norway's prime minister.
In case there were any doubts, that utterly bonkers message Trump sent to the Norwegian prime minister? Itâs entirely real.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-19T15:39:53.345Z
He effectively argued, in writing, that his crusade for Greenland is partly the result of the Nobel committee hurting his feelings. #madking www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-connects-his-greenland-crusade-to-his-failure-to-win-a-nobel-peace-prize
The message, first published by PBS, read in its entirety:
Dear Jonas: 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, its only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other 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
....For now, lets not dwell on the fact that Trumps message was filled with several factual errors (he has not, for example, stopped eight wars). Lets also brush past the fact that he apparently believes the Norwegian government is responsible for awarding Nobel prizes (its not).
Lets instead consider the nature of the American presidents pitch: Norway hurt his feelings by failing to give him an award he wanted but did not earn, which means he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace, and which further leads him to believe that the NATO alliance should simply let him buy an arctic island, which isnt for sale and which does not want to be part of the United States, with money he does not have.
Theres been an ongoing conversation for quite a while about whether Trump deserves to be seen as a mad king. As the public digests his message to the Norwegian prime minister, its likely that conversation is poised to grow considerably louder.
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,683 posts)The last time the president confronted chatter about the 25th Amendment, it was in the immediate aftermath Jan. 6.
The last time Trump confronted public chatter about the 25th Amendment, it was in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-20T13:57:34.069Z
Itâs good to see at least some evidence of this returning to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-weird-letter-to-norways-prime-minister-renews-25th-amendment-talk
In fact, according to Trump, because Norway hurt his feelings by failing to give him an award he wanted but did not earn, he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace......
The senator added regarding the American president, He isnt OK. Hes degraded significantly in the last year and hes about to get us into a war with our allies. Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii sounded a similar note, adding, I dont see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome. He is not stable at all and his reality is warped.
One senator, however, took an additional step down the same path. HuffPost reported:
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is calling on President Donald Trumps Cabinet and Vice President JD Vance to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over his latest threat to Greenland. [ ]
Invoke the 25th Amendment, Markey replied, referring to a constitutional process by which the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can declare a president unable to perform his duties. If the president contests that declaration, Congress would ultimately decide whether he remains in power.
....If the American president is aware of such concerns about his mental stability and fitness for office, hes not showing it. On the contrary, hours after his bonkers message to the Norwegian prime minister reached the public, Trump leaked a private message from French President Emmanuel Macron and used his social media platform to promote weird images, including one that showed a map of the Western Hemisphere in which Greenland, Canada and Venezuela are under American control.
Lars-Christian Brask, deputy speaker of the Danish parliament, told Sky News, If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate and the House to start to take control of the political power in America, because with this mad and erratic behavior, you have to ask the question: Is the president capable of running the United States?
Under the circumstances, that need not be a rhetorical question.