Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

Anne Applebaum: “One could observe many things about this document. One is the childish grammar, including the strange capitalizations… Another is the loose grasp of history…”

“Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.”

“Think about where this is leading.”