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Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the international press would have no difficulty finding appalled foreign leaders to comment. You could think of this as a hostile act of a statesman appalled that the American head of government does not know that the government of Norway does not decide who gets the Nobel Peace Prize. It is probably better to think of it as an intervention by a sympathetic observer who has noticed that President Donald Trump backs down from untenable positions in response to ructions in political and financial markets. Which is what Trump has done between the publication of his letter on Sunday and his speech at Davos on Wednesday. On Sunday, he seemed to be threatening war with Denmark, and European commentators, not without reason, lamented that he was risking breaking up the NATO alliance out of pique of not being awarded a prize by a committee that was never going to honor a non-leftist American president. Proof of which was the granting of that prize to President Barack Obama in 2009 for what even Obama himself admitted was for no tangible accomplishment. And Trump has never forgotten the ridicule heaped on him by Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, ridicule that led directly to that ride down the Trump Tower escalator four years later. Actually, Trump has some valid points on Greenland. It sits astride missile, drone, and air transport routes between North America and Western Russia and Eastern Europe. The United States would have even more flexibility than it does under current agreements with Denmark if it were to become U.S. territory. That’s one reason the U.S. holds on to Guam in the West Pacific and has spent billions upgrading military facilities there. All that said, Trump’s usual negotiating technique of starting off with extravagant demands was, in the careful words of social scientist Charles Murray, “next-level crazy.” Denmark has been an active ally of the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq, has increased its rate of defense spending above levels Trump demanded, and has adopted immigration policies in line with Trump’s advocacy. With Denmark as with Canada, as with fellow Republicans in Georgia and other states, Trump’s obnoxious maximalist demands have alienated him from sympathy and empowered the forces against him. Other leaders have figured out that he requires gushers of praise to permeate every dialogue, and they’re probably ready with encomiums for his avowals in his Davos speech that he won’t use violence to obtain Greenland. Some surely consider this a humiliating process. But national leaders dealing with American presidents at least since the time of Franklin Roosevelt have felt themselves duty-bound to cater to their personal styles (Roosevelt’s was condescension, Lyndon Johnson’s domineering) despite personal distaste. Only a leader as disciplined and aloof as Charles de Gaulle dared do otherwise. And it has to be said that Trump’s bluntness and braggadocio have had some of their intended effect. The American Enterprise Institution’s Yuval Levin, in an interview with The New York Times’ Ezra Klein, makes the point that many of Trump’s lurching policy changes, not codified into law, can easily be wiped away by the next Democratic administration, perhaps even by a Democratic House of Representatives next year. But despite his own preference for procedural regularity in making institutional change, Levin admits that “they’ve driven a lot of change that will be durable.” Initial polling reaction to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, has been negative. But there’s no doubt that Trump has proved that the border can be controlled under current legislation—which would increase the political cost of any subsequent administration adopting the open border policy of President Joe Biden’s. It is also telling that the best estimates of both pro- and anti-immigration analysts are that the substantial numbers of ICE deportations from within the United States, far above those of other recent administrations, are orders of magnitude lower than the numbers of self-deportations. As on other issues (like military recruitment), Trump is uninterested in institutional change but interested in sharply changing the behavior of the larger public. The effect of Trump policies, and the possibility that they may be put back in place at some later date, will likely discourage many illegal aliens from living in this country more or less permanently, as some 10 million have been up through January 2025. As I wrote last fall, “Who will want to make long-term plans that can be ruined by sudden deportation or hurried self-deportation?” We learn from experience, and just as the former real estate developer sometimes seems to accept discipline from financial markets, so the former reality TV show host sometimes seems to accept discipline from the ratings. On Greenland, he has responded to the cues of the markets and the ratings and backed off from threats of force, while retaining the possibility of increasing the already significant U.S. presence there. Meanwhile, the NATO alliance remains in place, with its increased number of European members spending increasing percentages of their economies on defense. Three more years of this Trump administration will strain and irritate foreign leaders and American politicians, with wild threats and childish petulance driving one crisis after another. But it may continue to get them, often grudgingly, doing things Trump’s way. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results appeared first on The Daily Signal.

During a signing ceremony on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, involving the newly created Board of Peace, President Trump revealed a bruise on his left hand, which the White House later told Fox News, was due to his hitting his hand on the table. Later, Trump himself further attributed the bruise to the daily aspirins he's been taking. This whole non-story served as another excuse for the left wing media to go after Trump's health, and for that task, CNN's Erin Burnett turned to the President's niece Mary Trump on OutFront. After showing the bruise, and playing a clip of the President's explanation, and quoting Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who advised the White House Medical Unit under President George H.W. Bush -- saying the public has a right to know about Trump's health -- Burnett introduced her Trump hitwoman -- the president's bitter niece Mary, a clinical psychologist who has declared him unfit for years, seemingly hour on the hour.  BURNETT:.. Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, is writing about Trump's mental fitness. She writes, 'We do not need any more proof that Donald is a deeply psychiatrically, disordered man, but if we did, more evidence can be found every day in his outbursts, his hypersomnia, his alarming lack of impulse control, and his increasingly obvious deviance and corruption..". How did Burnett she find someone so impartial? So would she press her guest on her accusations? Ha!  BURNETT: .. So you grew up with him and now you happen to be a clinical psychologist. And I know, you know, you're not here diagnosing, I'm just mentioning that you have that background as well. So what are you noticing now that makes you feel that something has changed? MARY TRUMP: It's not so much that things have changed qualitatively, it's just that they seem to be rapidly getting worse. I think that Donald has had undiagnosed, untreated psychiatric disorders for many, many years, predating his first administration. But given his advancing age, clearly there seems to be some indications that he has some cognitive issues. Hence all of the cognitive tests he's taking, and the MRI's we've heard about, but I have no specific information about. And just his behavior, the way he speaks, his inability to rein himself in, his inability to stay on topic. And oftentimes it seems that he's not exactly aware of where he is or the audience he's speaking to. Wait, I thought she wasn't diagnosing. I thought this was about the bruise on Trump's hand. It did present another opportunity for Burnett to follow-up and ask, can you be more specific in your accusations? Instead she asked her about his wanting to win the Nobel Prize, and his bringing up running for another term. Mary Trump pooh-poohed that and continued with the real purpose of this interview. MARY TRUMP: The fact of the matter is, as I said, he's a lame duck president, and he is causing untold harm to this country. And I think at this point, we need to start focusing on our attention, on the people who are allowing that to happen, the enablers. And I think this is one of the biggest problems we're seeing on the world stage. We look at Donald and we we talk about his unfitness, his psychological issues, his perhaps neurological decline, his cognitive decline. But other world leaders look at the United States as the problem. We have almost 78 million people put him back into office. We have an entire party dedicated to keeping him in power and enabling him, as well as a corrupt, illegitimate supermajority of the Supreme Court that is giving him imperial power. That is what the world sees. This interview was nothing more than a platform for Mary Trump to bash her uncle, while both host and guest used the bruise on President Trump's hand as a means to an end.  PS: Erin Burnett did not focus on Biden's mental decline when she interviewed him in May of 2024. It was a "tongue bath." Her show could have boasted the titled OutFawned. 

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