Can we say unhinged?

Here are some highlights of the meeting at the White House between Dear Leader and the head of NATO, Mark Rutte. I’ll let you decide whether it’s unhinged or not… (ps: for a flavor of the childish use of language, I do encourage you to read through the full transcript, or, if you can stomach it (I can’t) you can watch the video. For the sake of everyone’s sanity, I am “translating” his remarks into “big people words”…)

- as he sat down to discuss (purportedly) issues of security and alliance unity, he instead used the opportunity to fantasize again about annexing Canada. He actually said, “Canada only works as a state,” and gushed about how the U.S. would look on a map if we just erased the border and took Canada as our own.

- then he not only brought up again the idea of conquering Greenland but said NATO might need to get involved in helping the U.S. take it over — as if it’s a game of Risk.

- Instead of talking about defense cooperation or global security, Trump bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections — saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. In other words, he openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy.

- When asked about American small businesses hurting from tariffs, he did what he always does: lie and bluster. “You’re going to be so much richer,” he said. Meanwhile, Medicaid is being gutted, Social Security is under threat, and Trump’s billionaire cronies are cheering as the safety net burns.

- in a bizarre attempt at humour (something he consistently fails at..), he suggested we start sending drug dealers to the Netherlands (his interlocutor used to be the prime minister of the Netherlands.)

- He kept rambling about how the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada, said the European Union is “very nasty,” and then retold an utterly deranged story about how he “invaded Los Angeles” to turn on the water. (What actually happened was that he ordered water diverted from Northern California, destroying farmland and hurting his own voters in the process.)

Finally, as the cherry on top, he said our allies shouldn’t worry about Putin, brushing off any concerns about Russian aggression with a shrug.

And no, I do not know nor understand how such a person is allowed to remain in his role :(