As Donald Trump celebrates the anniversary of his second inauguration as president of the United States and begins his sixth year in office, his greatest asset is power.
He covets absolute power. The greatest threat to how Trump completes his term is how he wields his power.
Indeed, in the most foolish act in foreign policy in Trump’s presidency, he has threatened punitive tariffs on Denmark and seven other NATO allies in Europe to force the sale of Greenland to the US. They are outraged. This is a ridiculous ploy that will not deliver Greenland to Trump.
Trump’s escalation in Denmark has already strengthened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s iron resolve to get as much of Ukraine as he can. Prospects for ending the war in Ukraine are now near zero.
On top of Trump’s pending tariffs on Europe, if Trump seizes Greenland, the consequences will shake the world. NATO will be terminated.
We can see in a raft of polls at this one-year mark of Trump’s second term that voters across the country are expressing growing disquiet about his management of the economy and the affordability of housing and groceries, the raids by ICE agents as they seize and deport migrants as we saw last week in Minneapolis, and uncertainty about Trump’s foreign adventurism in the Americas and with Iran.