Donald Trump isn't even in office yet and silly season has already begun | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : President Trump has the biggest dreams for America and it's un-American to be afraid of big dreams."
60% : Trump envisions Canada, the whole country, as "the 51st state."
54% : It would, moreover, have to end its connection to the Commonwealth of Nations of 56 independent countries that were British colonies still bound by economic and political cooperation.
45% : On the other hand, it may just be that Trump is the susceptible one who repeats half-baked ideas he hears from billionaires richer than himself over burnt steak at Mar-a-Lago -- in one ear and out his mouth without mental filtration and reasons added afterward like ketchup.
44% : If Trump were somehow to annex Greenland, a self-ruling autonomous part of Denmark, would it become a state?
39% : Another poll showed that the news stories that make the majority "angriest" are about Trump's winning the election and his proposal for tariffs.
39% : "The Greenland leader's tone sharply contrasts not only with Trump's, but with the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who tweeted a jingoist outburst on January 8: "Our country was built by warriors and explorers.
36% : Beginning with his "Merry Christmas to all" tweet that he wanted to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland, Trump has not relented in his absurd claims, extended to renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
36% : Hardly the Rough Rider, if Trump were acting as Putin's or Xi's agent he could not have kowtowed more for their benefit.
34% : Some have suggested that Trump contrives his ludicrous claims as a distraction from his broken campaign promise to bring down prices that was the central basis for his election.
33% : Despite not yet holding office for a minute, Trump has made it plain that in his second term the U.S. will be an unreliable partner swayed by his personal whim, that he has no respect for historic alliances and that he has contempt for the rule-based international order that the U.S. has led since the end of World War II to prevent the reemergence of catastrophic great power collisions.
20% : Some speculate that Trump is engaging in Richard Nixon's deliberately staged "madman" theory of intimidating people into accepting his terms, whatever those might be.
18% : Trump's latest and inevitably doomed chief of staff Susie Wiles will be doing her job as his handler only if she can lock Trump in a soundless isolation booth.
18% : Trump is easily the most unpopular public figure in Canada.
9% : "God help us," said former General John Kelly, a previous victim in the line of his helpless chiefs of staff, who ended up concluding that Trump is instinctively a "fascist," about the prospect of a Trump second term.

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