Trump's Greatest Hits

Here are some of the craziest stuff Donald Trump said this past week.  Among the comments from his press conference marking the first anniversary of the Trump Restoration:

"After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that?"

FACT: When Germany invaded Denmark on a Tuesday morning and occupied it by Tuesday evening, the Roosevelt administration signed a deal with the Danish government-in-exile for the United States to protect Greenland from an Axis attack (Denmark, by the way, was the first country to be invaded and occupied by Germany after Poland).  The United States also vowed to resist German attacks on French and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean and in South America.  The U.S. never owned Greenland. 

"After 12 months back in the White House, our economy is booming. Growth is exploding. Productivity is surging. Investment is soaring. Incomes are rising."

FACT: The economy is in a period that's more funk than funky, and, given that Governor Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani were all elected on the affordability issue, no one with a brain would say that incomes are rising - unless you mean the income of Trump's billionaire buddies (and, coincidentally, himself).

"Other Presidents have spent, whether foolishly or not, trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO and gotten absolutely nothing in return. We've never asked for anything. It’s always a one-way street.""

FACT:  That would be news to George Walker Bush, who along with Barack Obama should be speaking out against Trump (Bill Clinton and Joe Biden are persona non grata at the moment, for reasons to random and complicated to explain here).  The United States is the only nation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that ever invoked Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which means that it was the only nation ever attacked - on September 11, 2001, when hijacked jet airliners blew the World Trade Center to kingdom come (and almost turned the Pentagon into a quadragon).  Invoking Article 5 meant that all other NATO members came to the United States' aid by participating in the Afghan war against the Taliban.  One nation lost more military personnel than any other per capita - Denmark.  Also, Lithuania sent troops to Afghanistan, and Lithuania didn't even join NATO until three years after 9/11.

"There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place and they are losers. One thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse that country’s doing."

FACT: Wind power is actually less expensive to generate and less costly to maintain than fossil-fuel-based electricity generation.  While Trump has tried - successfully, alas, in many cases - to curb development of renewable energy sources, Governor Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is still planning to push ahead for wind energy to reduce costs.

Now here are Trump quotes from his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos:

"I won [the 2024 election] in a landslide, a giant landslide, won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything."

FACT: This claim is only half right.  He did win all seven swing states and won the national popular vote, but it was hardly a landslide; Trump defeated former politician and fallen star Kamala Harris by a margin of 1.5 percentage points nationwide with an electoral vote victory of 312 to 226.  In terms of the popular vote, by the way, Trump is a minority President, having won 49 percent of the vote, which meant that more than half of the nations voters rejected him in favor of Harris or minor-party candidates who may or may not have been spoilers.   

"[The Ukraine war] wouldn’t have started if [the 2020 U.S. presidential election] "weren’t rigged . . ..  People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It’s a rigged election."

You know the real story by now. 

"We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO.”

FACT: The United States pays for 63 percent of NATO's costs and 16 percent of its organizational costs in particular.

"Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.  So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money."

FACT:  Trump confused Iceland with Greenland, though the stock market did take a dive because of Greenland - not because it appeared that the Danes would give in to Trump's demand for it but because Trump made the inexcusable and inexplicable demand in the first place.

That's enough.  I don't want to be here all day.

Trump's press conference and his Davos speech were the worst presidential performances in history, at least until next week. It's clear that his brain is deteriorating and his dementia is going full tilt boogie.  It's time to take Trump out of the White House and into an old folks' home.

Maybe Kristi Noem can visit him every week on therapeutic-dancing night.