Trump responded saying that he hoped the team didn't want him to choose between the stick and the jersey, then:

"Maybe I get both, who the hell knows. I’m president, I’ll just take ‘em.”

Because as we all know, that's what presidents do: just take'em.

Heather then notes that in the fall of 2021, Trump told Susan Glasser and her husband, journalist Peter Baker, that he wanted Greenland as a piece of real estate.

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
/2

“'I’m in real estate,' he told them. 'I look at a corner, I say, "I gotta get that store for the building that I’m building," et cetera. You know, it’s not that different.'"

And in his interview with New York Times published on January 7, Trump said he wants not just to work with Greenland, but to own it, “Ownership is very important,” he told David E. Sanger.

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
/3

“'Why is ownership important here?' Sanger asked.

'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,' Trump answered. 'I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.'”

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
/4

"Katie Rogers asked: 'Psychologically important to you or to the United States?'

Trump answered: 'Psychologically important for me. Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything.'”

#Trump #madman #megalomania #NobelPeacePrize #Greenland #Venezuela
/5

"This Pax (Ex) Americana era was illustrated Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrapped up a trip to China. This wasn’t just any old visit, either: It marked the first time a Canadian PM had been to the world’s second-largest economy since 2017—and based on the glamorous video Carney’s team released, it was a smashing success for Beijing."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
/6

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-making-china-great-again-trade-adversaries

"Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a 'new strategic partnership' between the two countries. ... Trump’s big bet that countries would ultimately determine that they simply can’t live without America’s markets, and thus would cave to his every whim, was dangerously wrong. Instead, Carney’s Beijing visit shows just how much Trump has done to make China great again."

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
/7

"In recent weeks and months, China has advanced or rekindled relationships with many of our allies, hosting a parade of foreign leaders."

#Trump #madman #tariffs #TradeWar #NATO #China #Canada
/8

His 'Donroe' atavism fits with his other primitive throwback policies, from tariffs (recalling the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that deepened the Great Depression) to immigration, racial discrimination and restriction (recalling the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 excluding southern and eastern Europeans and barring Asians)."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWar #immigrants #Venezuela #Greenland #oil #Iran #affordability #DonroeDoctrine
/9

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/17/americans-on-trump-foreign-policy

"While Trump strides across the stage posing as a world conqueror, the Quinnipiac poll shows him to be an incredible shrinking man – 57% opposed to 'running' Venezuela; 73% opposed to sending troops there; 55% opposed to taking over its oil sales; 86% opposed to militarily seizing Greenland; 55% opposed to buying it; and 70% against military action against Iran. According to the AP-NORC poll, 61% disapprove of his foreign policy in general."

#Trump #economy #tariffs #Venezuela #Greenland
/10

"The Reuters-Ipsos poll showed only 17% in favor of Trump acquiring Greenland & 4% in favor of military force.

Public disapproval of Trump’s foreign policy now nearly equals the disapproval of his economic policy, on cost of living at minus 25 points. Trump has repeatedly derided the reality of the 'affordability crisis' as a 'hoax', 'scam' or 'con job', lately on 13 January, as a 'fake word', as though he could magically make it vanish."

#Trump #economy #affordability #tariffs #TradeWar
/11

"Financial Times: The first US sale of the Venezuelan crude oil was to a company whose senior member had donated to Trump’s re-election campaign. The sale was conducted last week to a company called Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol, donated $6 million to PACs backing Trump’s re-election campaign."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #Vitol #JohnAddison #EconomicElites
/12

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-287-11626

"Addison also attended the meeting Trump had with oil executives at the WH and was also involved in his company’s efforts to secure a $250 million deal for Venezuelan crude. The deal kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil."

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #Vitol #JohnAddison #EconomicElites
/13

"We’ve just gotten another reminder that history, under Trump, is both morbid and mischievous. At this very moment in Greenland, amidst the icebergs and desolation, the great powers of the Western world are assembling –" (continued in /15)

~ David Shuster

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
/14

https://www.blueamp.co/p/germany-sends-troops-to-greenland

(continued from /15)

"not to repel the Hun or confront Lenin’s Bolsheviks, but to gently, awkwardly, and incredulously discourage the President of the United States from behaving like an intoxicated real estate speculator at a polar auction

Britain, France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden have dispatched soldiers, ships, and warplanes to the Arctic, ostensibly to reassure the world that the Arctic has not been 'abandoned,' as Donald J. Trump has alleged."

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
/15

"What I am about to share with you is an exclusive report with enormous global implications. We have live sources on the ground in Greenland at this very moment as Donald Trump announces sweeping tariffs against European nations in an unprecedented attempt to force the purchase of Greenland."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #madman #Greenland #NATO
/16

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-imposes-massive-tariffs