Demented President Remembers Greenland

For the past few months, it seemed like President Trump had forgotten about his weird determination to make Greenland part of the United States. But with the appointment of Jeff Landry as Special Envoy for the Illegal Seizure and Annexation of Greenland, I guess that's still on his agenda.

I have always wondered how much of this Greenland obsession is because he is fooled by the distorting effects of the Mercator projection, which makes everything in the far North look much bigger on the map than they actually are. (Greenland can look as big as South America on some maps. But if you look at the square miles of the Island it is pretty close to the size of Saudi Arabia.)

Despite Trump's protests to the contrary, the U.S. has an incredibly good deal with Denmark regarding Greenland right now. Denmark is responsible for the health care, food, and shelter of everyone in Greenland (which can be enormously expensive given its location) and the U.S. gets largely unfettered access to its military base there. If Greenland became part of the U.S., our national security situation would not change a bit (the U.S. would still have its base), but we would get the huge costs of maintaining a bunch of remote and distant civilians settlements. Plus Greenlanders hate the idea of joining the U.S., so the U.S. would also bear the brunt of whatever resistance develops.

The U.S. taking over Greenland over the overwhelming opposition of the locals is one of those ideas that only a total moron would get behind. That's America in 2025-2026!