Tone
The project to alienate allies is flourishing.
Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the “tone” of US Vice President JD Vance‘s comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.
“We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it’s being delivered,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.
Really? Denmark doesn’t like having some snot drop in uninvited to berate and threaten it? How eccentric and European.
“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance told a press conference. “You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass,” he added.
That’s how the trumpies see themselves? As investing in people? That’s funny, because the rest of us see them as using or bullying or harming us, or mostly all three.
‘This incredible, beautiful landmass’ that Trump & Co are desperate to turn into the world’s largest open-cast mine because beauty is only skin deep but profits run far deeper.
They invest in people in the same way that gardeners invest in weeds. The ones they can’t pull out and throw away they poison.
“Make Greenland Great Again”. I’m surprised they don’t have the hats yet.
Speaking of hats, Musk has taken to wearing a red cap emblazoned with “Trump was right about everything”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqjq11202ro.amp
How long before Trump starts sporting one himself?
Trump has recently given an interview on NBC News in which he clearly states that he is willing to use military force to seize Greenland.
You can rest some hopes on Trump bursting like a blown-up frog, but he would be replaced by the equally repellent Vance, who in Greenland talked about the President’s “desires” for the country – “We can’t just ignore the President’s desires.” He sounds like a chief courtier under a Persian king (who kept eunuchs in their services).
I believe Goebbels said much the same about his Persian king.
Sure we can. His desires are base and egotistical. He is owed nothing. Nobody is under any obligation to carry out his illegal, insane projects in his “honour”, or to uphold his “legacy”. Trump isn’t Kennedy committing America to go to the Moon. Trump’s “goals” are greedy, squalid,and megalomaniacal. They very much worthy of being ignored.
So they felt the same way about Biden. And Obama. No, just kidding.
My notion of Persian kings is got from Mary Renault’s Persian Boy, which has a lot about Darius III, who was ultimately defeated by Alexander and killed by one of his satraps. He was known as the King of Kings, and one scene in the book is how his courtiers are having a hard time losing games of chess to him. Trump does seem to be surrounded by courtiers who indulge and flatter him rather than a cabinet who can disagree. Do his golf cronies let him win?
According to the book Careless People, which is about the court surrounding Mark Zuckerberg, his underlings would let him win at board games.
And didn’t Musk claim to win at gaming?
Really, we seem to be ruled by a gang of Men Who Would be Persian Kings and their courtiers.
KB Player, I think that might be a condition of all smug men. I know a man who always played on both teams; that way he was sure of being on the winning team. My husband and I nickname him “The Great One” because he is one of those who ‘knows everything’.