Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It is a genuine inflection point today, right now, for America and Americans and the world. It is upon us, and it is more akin to watching a small child play with fireworks than any serious examination of policy

choices being made by a serious or rational actor. Today, the world is madly translating and

trying to decipher a series of rambling texts, social media posts, an unhinged rants delivered

from the podium of the West Wing of the White House to

try to figure out what exactly it is that Donald Trump is threatening.

A series of late-night posts up the ante and what the Washington Post describes as the

gravest transatlantic crisis in generations. Donald Trump once again posting texts from world leaders, including this one.

French President Emmanuel Macron asking for a meeting and saying what we're all thinking at this

point, quote, I do not understand what you were doing in Greenland, end quote. The posts contained

fake images of Donald Trump planting a flag on Greenland.

Another an Oval Office meeting in which a map shows that both Canada and Greenland have been annexed by the United States of America.

All that happened on top of yesterday's stunning text message to Norway's prime minister

in which Donald Trump made a lot of things clear, but one of them was that he wanted Greenland

because he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize.

And Applebaum in the Atlantic writes that the message to Norway's leader reveals that, quote,

Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality. Why? Applebaum in the Atlantic writes that the message to Norway's leader reveals that, quote,

Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally unhealthily

obsessive about the Nobel Prize. Donald Trump, seeming to prove her point and remarks to

reporters this afternoon, making the dubious claim that somehow he's saved millions of lives.

Watch.

You know, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for each war, but I don't say that. I save

millions and millions of people.

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