The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page just took an unusually blunt swing at President Donald Trump — and it’s over Greenland.
In a sharply worded editorial, the Journal argued Trump’s ongoing push to take control of Greenland has crossed from controversial to irrational, warning the president “may even be flirting with cognitive decline, for all we know.” The piece added that Trump “needs therapy more than the United States needs to own the island to ensure its defense.”
The commentary, written by editorial board member Holman W. Jenkins Jr., portrayed Trump’s Greenland fixation as “nonsensical” and suggested it reflects deeper insecurity and grievance-driven decision-making.
Jenkins also stressed that any attempt to use force against Denmark, a NATO ally, would face steep legal and political barriers — and argued the military and courts would be unlikely to comply with unlawful orders.
The Daily Beast has additional details on the Murdoch-backed attack.
Jenkins, who has written for the conservative paper for 34 years, noted that Congress made it illegal for the U.S. to issue a “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity” of a nonoffending member of the United Nations, which Greenland’s protectorate, Denmark, is.
“This isn’t international law, MAGA types, it’s U.S. law,” writes Jenkins. “A Trump order to occupy an otherwise peaceful and unthreatened Greenland would likely be illegal six ways from Sunday. The U.S. military wouldn’t obey it. The Supreme Court would enjoin it.”
Jenkins added that Trump using force to seize Greenland will likely lead to a third impeachment.
“These realities, widely unmentioned in the current moment, probably aren’t lost on Mr. Trump,” he continues. “The whole kerfuffle fits better under the heading: Why is he throwing his presidency away? Look at his tariff and immigration overkill, his sagging approval ratings, likely GOP defeat in the House midterms, his probable impeachment soon after.”
The editorial did not claim Trump has any diagnosed medical condition, but framed its argument around what it described as troubling public behavior and repeated lapses in strategic judgment.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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More lies cant deal with Reality
Get with the program morons. Trump has said there would never be military use in the Greenland issue. You are so completely unaware of how Trump negotiates that your opinions are based upon gross ignorance. Just go away.
Really ?? May want to have yours checked.
democrats aiding and abetting illegal border insurgents have a true mental illness.
This article is deliberately obfuscating the reality that there are no intentions to invade Greenland and that the deal is already done.
Psychiatrists need to examine WST’s Holman Jenkins Jr.’s mental state because he seems to be mentally ill questioning President Trump when the head of NATO and others have agreed with President Trump’s strategic plan to take over the military defense of Greenland to complete the Golden Dome and protect America, UK, the EU and the West from China and Russian aggression. In fact, Denmark is in the process of negotiating with President Trump, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth on how that can best be accomplished while Greenlanders and Denmark can keep their sovereignty. I don’t see that Jenkins Jr. has ever run any countries or has been in charge of any military in the past so how dare he question a 2 term President who has..
By the look of this man I would question his cognitive decline before President Trump, Murdock and his paper have to be liberal loons,