Trump's Song of Fire and Ice

Greenland and a Frigid Manifest Destiny

If Donald J. Trump is known for anything, its his unparalleled flair for bluster—a symphony of boasts and provocations that tend to crescendo into a kind of, we’ll just say, performative absurdity. This is, after all, the man who vowed to build a "big, beautiful wall" and insisted with a straight face that Mexico would foot the bill. This is not the fir…