Trump's fixation on Greenland is particularly odd, though not new. Back in 2018, he offered to buy it from Denmark, which controls the large, icy island as an autonomous territory. He was outraged when the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, turned him down, calling her "nasty" and canceling a state visit to Copenhagen.
He let the subject drop after that, and didn't mention it in this year's campaign, but her rejection must have been festering all this time, because he's revived it full bore, threatening to impose heavy sanctions on Denmark if she persists in her refusal.
Trump's pledge to lower prices ('on the first day') was one of the main reasons Trump won the election, while his outright-imperialist rhetoric in the weeks since-more brazen than any American president's in more than a century-played no role in the campaign.
Some have waved off the bombast. 'This is just President Trump being President Trump,' H.R.McMaster said, attempting to reassure a group of worried foreign-policy experts.
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