An excerpt from Coffee & Covid today. If Trump sees Carnage cozying up with Beijing…just sayin’.

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Meanwhile, Trump’s annexation of Greenland, long mocked by progressives as a joke or meme, is hardening into reality. The New York Times reported, “Trump Threatens to Take Greenland ‘the Hard Way.’” He’s losing patience.

Trump was characteristically blunt. “The fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land,” he said. “I’m sure we had a lot of boats go there too.”

That is muscular language— language weak American presidents largely abandoned after the Cold War, when meek deference to global consensus replaced testosterone-fueled talk about power and geography. Trump made clear that, this time, he isn’t negotiating: “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet —I might talk about that— but right now, we’re going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not.”

In what the Times described as an “ominous warning,” President Trump reinforced the point: America is getting Greenland. “I would like to make a deal the easy way,” the President said, showing the velvet glove, “but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.”

I doubt the clammy reality was lost on the Danes; this is essentially the same choice Trump offered Nicolás Maduro— right before the “hard way” abruptly arrived in a blizzard of late-night inconvenience and last-minute travel.

It’s not a completely crazy idea. The strategic logic is straightforward. Even AOC can understand it. “I’m a fan of Denmark,” Trump insisted, “but if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.” Watch the whole clip.

The Department of State just said out loud what has been obvious to us for at least six months now. “This is OUR hemisphere.”

Remember, President Trump first raised the idea of acquiring Greenland late in his first term, as “just a really big real-estate deal,” and progressives howled with laughter. He brought it up again in earnest last March, and again liberals sniggered with derision, though perhaps less fulsomely than in 2019. In 2025, they were polishing their “no Kings” narrative, so they framed it more as authoritarian overreach.

Once again, we see a seed planted early in 2025 that is now, one year later, against all odds, flowering into a Redwood of historic inevitability.