There was speak of the rising variety of beached whales in Massachusetts, the sufferer, the president-elect mentioned, of these windmills which have been erected off the coast. They “are driving the whales crazy, obviously.”
There was a vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico, by presidential decree, to the “Gulf of America.” After which there was Donald J. Trump’s refusal to rule out utilizing army power to grab the 51-mile Panama Canal on nationwide safety grounds, together with the 836,000 sq. miles of Greenland, the world’s largest island.
Mr. Trump’s household and supporters wish to say “We are so back!” and they’re, no doubt. But as the person who will probably be president once more spun out threats and offended denouncements of the Biden administration and private grievances for greater than an hour on Tuesday in the lounge of his Mar-a-Lago membership, one thing else was again: the chaotic stream-of-consciousness presidency.
Mr. Trump has returned to our day by day nationwide cognizance, although one might argue he by no means actually left. Tuesday’s information convention was a reminder of what that was like, and what the subsequent 4 years could have in retailer.
He waxed on a few favourite criticism throughout his first time period: Bathe heads and sink taps that don’t ship water, a logo of a regulatory state gone mad. “It goes drip, drip, drip,” he mentioned. “People just take longer showers, or run their dishwasher again,” and “they end up using more water.”
Then he moved on to the prospect of a army conflict with Denmark. After refusing to rule out the prospect of coercing a NATO ally with using power if it remained reluctant to show over property the president-elect coveted, Mr. Trump recommended that Denmark had a doubtful declare on Greenland anyway.
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