Our Mob President

Philip Elliot: “President Donald Trump assured nervous European allies on Wednesday he ‘won’t use force’ to take Greenland while adding with a mob-like menace that the world’s largest island will eventually be under the U.S. flag, one way or another…”

“Still, one line stood out, as if it were a cutting-room-floor discard from Goodfellas: ‘We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won’t give it. You can say yes and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no and we will remember.’”

“Another way to read that familiar frame? We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”