Look! Look! Look at my hand!
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland, the Danish territory he has sought to acquire, even as the Arctic island says it doesn’t want it.
“Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!” the president posted on social media alongside an illustration of the naval hospital ship the USNS Mercy. [CNN/Politics]
Everyone in both Denmark and the USA, with the exception of President Trump and, maybe, Governor Landry (R-LA), are rubbing their chins in puzzlement, as Greenland has not reported being a plague island. CNN inquiries yielded finger pointing, with the last link in the chain, the U.S. Navy, refusing to answer.
A first guess might come from this part of the report:
Trump’s post came after Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command said in a statement Saturday it had evacuated a crew member needing urgent medical treatment from a US submarine in Greenlandic waters. The crew member was transferred to the Greenlandic health authorities and a hospital in Nuuk.
If he misread it, maybe.
I’m more inclined to go with the Magician’s Maneuver explanation, aka distracting the audience. From what?
The Epstein Files, of course. Not his tariff loss at SCOTUS, though, as he’s using that an opportunity to paint rhetorical targets on Justices Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch, although it’s a risky indulgence. But he doesn’t want anyone thinking about the Epstein Files.
