Trump Unleashes on Europe

“President Trump lobbed social media posts at European leaders early Tuesday, doubling down on his demand that the United States take Greenland in comments that hung over the annual gathering of leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,” the New York Times reports.

Playbook: “In a series of extraordinary late night statements, the president doubled down on his threats to take over Greenland — and Canada — while at turns mocking, threatening and humiliating the European leaders who have resisted his advances. This crisis feels like it’s spiraling out of control.”

“By 1 a.m., Trump was busily posting AI-generated images to illustrate his designs on Greenland — one showing him planting a U.S. flag on the island, a second of him showing a modified map of the Americas to European leaders in which the U.S. owns Greenland, Canada and Venezuela. Are we about to see the first empire built entirely by meme?”