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Trump has decided: six Americans and one Englishman will lead Gaza into the future. Not a single Palestinian, not a single Arab, not a single Muslim. It is the total disenfranchisement of the Palestinians in Gaza. A prime example of mandate colonialism in the style of dark times past. The Palestinians, and we as well, must not accept that a pro-Netanyahu gang of kids is ruling Gaza
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January 20, 2026
If Republicans retain any vestigial memories of principle or patriotism, now would be a good time for them to act on distant memories of duty and honor to save America. Trump is embarrassing a great nation and endangering global security to assuage his fragile yet monstrous ego.
Over the weekend, two media outlets reported on a message from Trump to the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr, which linked Trump’s desire to invade Greenland to his hurt feelings over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. See Bloomberg News, Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub.
Per Bloomberg, Trump wrote the following to the Prime Minister of Norway:
Dear Jonas: 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 now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
The message to the Prime Minister of Norway was bizarre and misleading on many levels.
Regarding the Nobel Prize, Norway does not award it. Instead, a private entity, the Nobel Foundation, administers a prize established by Alfred Nobel in his will. There are six prizes, awarded by a mix of university institutes; Swedish academies of science, literature and economics; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The latter is a private committee whose members are appointed by the Norwegian legislature. They make decisions independent of the country of Norway.
Regarding Norway’s relationship to Greenland: Norway is not Denmark, the country that controls Greenland (as an autonomous territory). Does Trump know the difference between Denmark, Norway, the Nobel Committee, and Greenland? Or are they all a miasma of culpable parties who failed to award him the Nobel Peace Prize?
Regarding Trump’s claim that there are no documents memorializing Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland, Trump is egregiously wrong. This NYTimes article does a good job of describing the historical basis for Denmark’s claim over Greenland: Trump Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub, Officials Say - The New York Times (I have run out of gift articles to the NYTimes, and the article is behind a paywall.)
To cite one example in which the US acknowledges Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland, see this 1951 amended defense agreement between the US and Denmark: Denmark (Greenland) (04-0806) - Agreement Amending and Supplementing the Agreement of April 27, 1951, as Amended, Concerning the Defense of Greenland - United States Department of State
The PDF version of the agreement between the US and Denmark (linked above) says, in part,
For more than 75 years (at least), the US has recognized that Greenland “is an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.” But Trump is on the verge of ending the NATO alliance and igniting a global trade war with the EU because his feelings are hurt over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
America and the world find themselves in this dangerous predicament for two reasons: (1) The Republican Party has surrendered completely to Donald Trump at every turn, and (2) Chief Justice John Roberts granted Trump immunity from his criminal actions as president.
There is still time for a Republican intervention to save America (and the world) from Trump’s madness. Congress could pass a War Powers Resolution this week requiring Trump to obtain congressional approval before committing US troops to hostile actions against Greenland (and Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and Colombia).
In truth, Republicans should assist Democrats in impeaching and removing Trump from office, but blocking his ability to unilaterally order troops into combat would be a good start.
As noted by Anne Appelbaum in The Atlantic, the lunatic letter from Trump to the Norwegian Prime Minister should be “the last straw.” See The Atlantic, Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw | Will Republicans in Congress ever step in? (Gift article, accessible to all.)
The people around Trump could find ways to stop him, as some did in his first term, but they seem too corrupt or too power-hungry to try. That leaves Republicans in Congress as the last barrier. They owe it to the American people, and to the world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests. . . . Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time.
As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic, asking the US military to attack a NATO ally will require our military to rewire itself from a protector of democracy to an aggressor army in which might is the only guiding principle. See Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal | Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do. (Gift article, accessible to all.)
As Nichols writes,
[T]hese will be orders that force U.S. military minds to step into a horrifying mirror universe where the United States is the aggressor against NATO, a coalition that includes countries that have been our friends for centuries. Should Trump pursue this scheme of conquest, the military’s training will have to be shattered and reassembled into a destructive version of itself, as if doctors were asked to take lifesaving medicines, reconstitute them as poisonous isomers, and then administer them to patients.
Republicans can stop the perversion of the US military into a conquering army, can stop the dismantling of NATO, and can stop the emerging trade war merely by doing their constitutional duty as the Article I branch of government—i.e., exercising oversight over the president.
And the Supreme Court can do its part to cage the monster they have created by taking away Trump’s imagined power to impose tariffs at whim. Although he could still create mischief and chaos, removing the power to unilaterally impose tariffs would reduce the scale and scope of his mayhem.
A shift in the firmament?
After months of protests by grassroots activists against Trump’s hostile actions toward immigrants in the US and foreign nations with oil or influence over peace prizes, it feels as though the floodgates are opening, causing a shift in the firmament of the American political landscape. It is a long-overdue and welcome development.
For the last eight years, conservative Christians have served as the critical mass of Trump’s self-sustaining core of supporters. Catholics were at the center of the core as they rallied around Trump’s cynical effort to deny reproductive choice to women.
But there has always been a cognitive dissonance between Trump’s misogyny, greed, and anti-immigrant animus, on the one hand, and the core Catholic doctrines of justice, mercy, and love for one another. The modern Catholic Church has historically been a champion of immigrants and refugees. ¹
But, following the example of Pope Leo, leaders in the American Catholic Church are beginning to speak out against Trump’s policies. At the same time, Christian ministers are organizing seminars and marches in Minneapolis to demonstrate against ICE’s cruelty. And the Catholic Archbishop of the US military is beginning to raise the issue of conscientious objection on moral grounds to participation in an invasion of Greenland.
See, for example, HuffPost, U.S. Catholic Cardinals Urge Trump Administration To Embrace A Moral Compass In Foreign Policy.
Per HuffPo,
In a joint statement, Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington and Joseph Tobin of Newark, N.J., warned that without a moral vision, the current debate over Washington’s foreign policy was mired in “polarization, partisanship, and narrow economic and social interests.” [¶] The statement was unusual and marked the second time in as many months that members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy have asserted their voice against a Trump administration many believe isn’t upholding the basic tenets of human dignity. In November, the entire U.S. conference of Catholic bishops condemned the administration’s mass deportation of migrants and “vilification” of them in the public discourse.
And the Catholic Archbishop of the US military said that soldiers who refused to participate in an invasion of Greenland “would be in good conscience to do so.” See Aleteia, Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland.
On Sunday, the Archbishop told the BBC “Sunday” show that if the Trump administration ordered the military to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory, he was worried that U.S. service members “could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something that’s morally questionable.” [¶]
Broglio also noted that while it would be difficult for a soldier or Marine to disobey such an order, he or she “would be in good conscience to do so.”
Finally, a group of clergy has organized a march for faith leaders under the banner “A Call to Minneapolis.” The march and related activities will take place on January 22 and 23, 2026. The response has been so overwhelming that the group has had to temporarily close registrations and suspend travel assistance for clergy who want to join the march. The website is here: MARCH | Multifaith, Antiracism, Change and Healing.
There are other Christian groups and clergy organizing marches and protests in Minneapolis. As one reader of the newsletter wrote in an email,
I figure there will be more such calls [for clergy to march], just as there were during the Civil Rights era. All of which is to say that we will soon start seeing large groups of clergy marching as we did in the 50s/60s.
I agree with the reader. The emergence of clergy in opposition to the administration’s cruel treatment of immigrants and its bellicose threats against allies could be a turning point. Trump can’t help himself and will begin verbally attacking the Catholic Church and Christian ministers for opposing his cruel crackdown on immigrants and aggressive actions against allies. Getting into a dispute with the two religious groups that represent 66% of Americans is a dangerous political move for Trump.