With his domestic policies doing little to ease affordability concerns while stirring up chaos in select cities, it’s no wonder the president has fixated on foreign affairs in his first year back in the white House.

Lately, the president has revisited his preoccupation with annexing Greenland in an increasingly belligerent manner.

President Donald Trump’s recent message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, provided in a letter rather than his usual social-media free associations — is unhinged, to say the least. 

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars Plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump wrote. The prize committee is a private entity, although its members are appointed by Norway’s Parliament. The eight-war fantasy is bizarre.

But, mainly, it’s seriously deranged for someone with Trump’s powers to threaten war because he didn’t get a prize he thought he deserved. Apparently, his second-hand acceptance of the medal, from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, wasn’t enough to satiate his bruised ego. Instead of earning him admiration, his acceptance mainly sparked a wave of humorous AI social-media memes showing him receiving various participation trophies.

We all know the American president is narcissistic, but the more serious issue is the underlying policy. The United States is threatening to use military force to acquire a territory controlled by another member of NATO. Greenlanders do not want to become Americans. Denmark does not want to cede control of Greenland to the United States. Our country already has a base in Greenland. 

“The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” Trump wrote, which is delusional and wrong on principle. When asked during a New York Times interview why the United States needs to own the island, his answer: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.” Free nations do not invade allies to satiate the psychological needs of its leader.

Trump also said he isn’t bound by international law, but by his own morality. Those are the musings of a despot, not a president. We remember when Republicans portrayed the Greenland shtick as trolling. But like with many of the president’s declarations, they are a joke right until they become serious.

Instead of reining him in, Republicans members of Congress have mainly chosen to engage in strategic silence or actively support the policies, with one GOP congressman authoring a bill allowing a Greenland annexation (not that Trump feels the need for congressional approval of his foreign-policy whims).