It’s All Just Absurd

Andrew Sullivan: “‘Absurd,’ it turns out, is a trigger word for Trump, as it well should be. When the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, was asked to respond to the idea that Donald Trump wanted to ‘buy’ Greenland, she found the mot juste. The proposal was ‘absurd.’ Perhaps at one point at the beginning of the Cold War, some kind of strategic presence in Greenland would have been worth considering briefly. Now? Yes, absurd. The only thing more absurd is canceling a planned state visit to Denmark at the last moment in response to the prime minister pointing out the bleeding obvious, and adding the insult ‘nasty’ to yet another independent woman for good measure. But this too is predictable: ‘We know that a humiliated narcissist must release his narcissistic rage somehow, best on those who caused his psychic injury.’ Bad luck for Denmark.”

“President Donald Trump is absurd. His presidency is absurd. His party is absurd. We have known this ever since that absurd journey down an escalator, and the surrealism has only intensified since. Perhaps it takes a sane foreigner, not subject to years of almost hourly Trump abuse, to point out the obvious.”