An unhinged Donald Trump feels the backlash from Europe, Greenland, and beyond in Davos [View all]
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, sought to flatter Donald Trump in his first term, treating the wannabe dictator to a Bastille Day military parade, which Trump later sought to emulate in Washington, D.C.
Macron is offering a different public message this year, with Trump’s high profile bid to annex Greenland. Fracturing the NATO alliance has elicited strong emotions, and troop deployments meant to deter an invasion by the United States.
Trump spoke for more than an hour to the World Economic Forum earlier today after a transatlantic flight to Switzerland, rehashing fantasies about how the 2020 presidential election was “fixed,” talking endlessly about himself, and memorably referring to Greenland as Iceland. But he then served up what has become known as a “TACO” — meaning, “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
Trump first backed off from the threat to use military force — we already have a base in Greenland — and later retreated from his threats to slap tariffs on any country backing Denmark’s hegemony on the self-governing, mostly ice-covered landmass. Instead, Trump said a “framework” for resolving his demands has been agreed to, reportedly after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte talked to him.
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