Spoken like a true rapist: Trump posts that "everyone agrees" regarding his hostile takeover plan for Greenland

[Miles Archer]

Trump has gone on an insane posting spree that covered everything from leaking private messages to issuing further takeover threats against U.S. allies.

In a flurry of unhinged messages on Truth Social, the 79-year-old president continued his dangerous rhetoric about the U.S. seizing Greenland while also sharing apparent text messages from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Mark Rutte, as well as calling for his political opponents to be jailed.

Trump, who is travelling to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, began the overnight posting spree by saying he had a “very good” phone call with Rutte regarding his demands for the U.S. to take over Greenland—a threat that has led to calls to remove the president from office using the 25th Amendment.

“I agreed to a meeting of the various parties in Davos, Switzerland. As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back—On that, everyone agrees,” Trump wrote, despite world leaders and the American public outright rejecting the idea that Trump should try to take control of the autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-leaks-leaders-private-texts-and-trashes-allies-in-deranged-posting-frenzy/

[SheltieLover]

1. Everyone agrees he is crazy, a ruskie ASSet & the world will be better off without him.

Who's going to tell him?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Rec for your title - I was hoping the Daily Beast had put it like that too

I think we're getting to the point where liberal outlets may be willing to speak the truth like that.

[Miles Archer]

4. "I'm not a psychologist / psychiatrist, I just play one on TV, but..."

...I think there is a direct correlation between the fact that Trump is an adjudicated rapist and a sexual predator accused of sexual assault by 26 other women, in addition to E Jean Carroll.

And the specific brand of mental illness / ethical disconnect that makes rape / sexual assault "OK" to the predator involved seems to permeate many of Trump's "major decisions."

He's made reference to what he plans to do to / with Greenland, "whether they like it or not."

"We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland," Trump said recently.

I don't think it takes a degree in clinical psychiatry to "decode" what he's saying.

One of his primary motivating factors is "conquest," with humiliation and degradation as "bonus points."

I think that every time he has a 2 AM "Truth Social" flood of garbage, the media "should" make these connections, and because Trump is notoriously litigious, I'll assume that part of their reasoning is that they don't need another lawsuit on their hands.

[Irish_Dem]

10. You are correct.

Doesn’t take a license to come to this conclusion.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. A Danish politician already said it about Stephen Miller and his language

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143600488

[Hugin]

3. Trump's protection racket steams on...

He’s been surprisingly good at it in his shambling way.

Step 1: Make extreme threat. Smug in knowing that there’s nobody willing to take the extreme measures necessary to remove the threat maker from a position to make credible extreme threats.

Step 2: Collect the conciliatory appeasements.

Step 3: Rinse and repeat.

Of course, it’s an unsustainable business model in the hands of a psychopath (the very people most likely to use such a model) because they require an ever escalating level of appeasement to feel the thrill of squeezing the suckers and losers.

[Miles Archer]

5. I think one reason why he "gets his way" is...

...that the other parties involved just want him to shut up and go away.

One of his central tricks of the trade is "repetition"...wearing down and exhausting his opponents.

A guy like Gavin Newsom may respond to Trump's bullying with "bark on, little doggie."

Others are more concerned about Trump's unpredictable, unstable psyche.

One thing is clear, and I know DU "gets it," and it's alarming that so much of the general public is apathetic / indifferent to this, but we ARE seeing a daily display of rapidly advancing mental illness. The media does its "Oh, that's just Trump being Trump" thing, but it's nowhere near as benign as that.

[D_Master81]

6. This

I’ve seen it for years. I think people his first term went along with it cause they thought he’d be gone in 4 years and now they’re just tired. I mean you literally have to fight every single day. People have gotten exhausted over the 11 years of him on the scene.

[Hugin]

7. Decay is the one thing which doesn't hesitate...

To take an extreme threat maker from a position to make credible threats.

Trump’s feeling the rot and as they all do, if he can’t have it all. Nobody can. Which brings us back to the fact he’s a rapist.

[Lonestarblue]

16. I think he gets his way because Republicans are fully behind his power grabs.

And he has enabled the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 nihilists to take key roles in government to do whatever they want. He simply doesn’t care what is done to the federal government so long as he can keep using US power to secure significant money from foreign real estate deals for himself, keep grifting from the US Treasury, and feed his monstrous ego by bullying the rest of the world.

European leaders are making a big mistake trying to appease him. You cannot appease a bully and expect him to stop being a bully. You smack him in the face, hard, and say there’s more to come if you keep this up. EU leaders have financial retaliations. They need to start using them. Only when it’s clear that Trump is damaging them will his administration consider using the 25th Amendment and only that if Vance promises to let them continue their depredations on Americans.

[Gordcanuck]

18. You're right about the damaging financial relations,

Just hold on to your chairs when the largest EU members and the UK dump 2Trillion of US treasuries. THEN watch for the 25th amendment rollout. 🎶 Fun fun fun, when Daddy takes the t-bills away!

[Evolve Dammit]

21. K&R

[Renew Deal]

8. Why would they even give Trump a meeting?

It makes him appear like he’s driving the agenda. It’s like going to visit Putin in Russia.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Caligula meets Attila the Hun

Trump doesn’t give a shit if people like him, he craves to be feared.
And he will destroy what he can’t steal.

[doc03]

11. I think Europe will cave to Trump and he will

get Greenland.

[Miles Archer]

12. He took a page from Putin's book and Ukraine.

"I WANT IT."

That's his "justification."

Trump desperately wanted to play "mediator" between Putin and Zelensky, but he had NOTHING to work with beyond "LOOK, man...if you just give Putin everything he wants, he'll STOP MURDERING YOUR PEOPLE. Just give him EVERYTHING he WANTS and this will all be OVER."

As I have said many times, Trump is the rotten little spoiled brat, like Musk's kid, who stood there in the Oval Office, picked his nose, and wiped it on Trump's desk.

And you CANNOT "reason" with a kid like that. You either discipline them or stand back and watch the carnage.

And the issue with "disciplining" a kid is that you can't just pick a day of the week and decide you're going to "set a precedent."

If they have been ALLOWED to GET AWAY WITH IT, they'll have only one mission in life...to KEEP getting away with more, and more, and MORE.

That's Trump.

[Solly Mack]

15. I have the same worry.

[Layzeebeaver]

19. Maybe a 3 year lease perhaps?

With an out clause for not maintaining or messing the property up. Also a “don’t bother the neighbours while you’re here” clause.

Then don’t renew the lease.

[malaise]

13. Sure - everyone of the voices

in his demented criminal head

[Old Crank]

17. An overflowing human septic tank.

And every GOP just keeps going along.

[gfarber]

20. Davos Overture

There once was a banker in Davos,
Who warned that the world’s turning chaos.
“The order is cracked,
The old rules are sacked—
This isn’t a phase, it’s a status.”

In French et English Mark Carney cried,
That the fiction we loved has now died.
Great powers compete,
With no rules to keep neat—
The strong take their fill, weak abide.

“Be clear,” said the man to the hall,
“This isn’t reform, not at all.
No gentle mutation,
But a sharp separation—
A rupture that startles us all.”

The crowd rose in thunderous cheer,
While elsewhere a post did appear:
A flag-covered map,
From an A.I. app—
Where borders grew oddly unclear.

There once was a man in Davos
Who spoke of a world turned to loss.
“The story we told,
That the rules had a hold,
Was pleasant—and false at its gloss.”

He warned, with a measured despair,
That power now rules everywhere.
The strong take what’s near,
The weak learn to fear—
No court, no constraint, no repair.

“Don’t soften the word,” Carney said,
“This isn’t a path gently led.
Not transition or trend,
But a break with no mend—
An order pronounced fully dead.”

They stood and they clapped in the hall,
As if that might cushion the fall.
Polite, well-fed dread
Met with hands overhead—
A ritual masking it all.

While flags swallowed borders online,
Drawn clean by a soulless design,
A map learned to lie
At the speed of A.I.,
And conquest was rendered benign.

Outside, the snow fell unchanged,
Indifferent, white, and estranged.
Inside, men agreed
What they’d lost and might need—
Then returned to a world rearranged.