As the whole world watched, the president of the United States (God help us) repeatedly referred to Greenland, which he is willing to blow up NATO to acquire, as Iceland. Don’t dismiss this as trivial: if any previous president had been that befuddled, the whole press corps would have been howling about senility and demanding that he step down.
And of course Trump’s press secretary insisted that he didn’t say what we all saw and heard him say.
Trump also repeatedly displayed his trademark willful ignorance, for example when talking about renewable energy. While berating Europe for using wind energy, he admitted that China also has big wind farms — someone must have showed him pictures — but declared that
They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don’t use them. They just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don’t spin, they don’t do anything.
In reality, China accounts for almost 40 percent of total world generation of electricity from wind power, substantially more than Europe.
Beyond confusion and ignorance, Trump delivered menace..."
Yes. We are trapped in clutches of the worst of the worst people on the planet. If you aren't horrified & embarrassed, you either aren't listening, or you are well beyond help. Mercy, mercy me...
