President Donald Trump’s bizarre and threatening letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has sent shockwaves across the globe, prompting analysts, journalists and political commentators to openly question whether the president had suffered “some sort of serious mental breakdown....

Contents of said letter from daily beast: https://archive.is/YFBK3#selection-773.0-779.748

“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “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 that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other 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.”

  • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
    84·
    17 hours ago

    20 years ago, many of us thought George W. Bush’s legacy would be that he was the most embarrassing president to ever happen to America…

    Never forget that Trump is the most embarrassing president that we’ve ever had yet…

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      15 hours ago

      And prior to that, we had Ronnie Raygun. W was embarrassing on a lot of levels, but Ronnie Raygun had the most criminal administration in history (at least so far) and the things they did set us on the path we are still on…

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        10·
        14 hours ago

        Watching Futurama and hearing them say that Nixon was the worst president in history AND alternate history is hard to watch now. The writers get a lot of things right, but Trump completely breaks that joke in a heartbreaking way.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          14 hours ago

          My guess is that it had something to do with the age of the writers? Nixon really broke the mold, I guess.

          A lot of things happened in the 60s and 70s that broke a lot of cherished myths of post-war America. Seeing JFK and RFK getting assassinated. MLK getting assassinated. Pentagon Papers. An incredibly painful economy. Oil embargoes. Then Nixon and Watergate…then the Church Committee. I’m assuming if they were to do a word association, they’d probably associate Nixon with all or most of this stuff. It definitely made an impression on the boomer mindset.

          But Ronnie Raygun was far worse than Nixon. I think at that point, the boomers (and their parents) were just sick of all the bad news and conservative corruption and mostly tuned it out. The media mostly turned away entirely from the Iran/Contra affair.

          And of course Bush Senior and W were not exactly great.

          And now there’s Taco…

          • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
            1·
            1 hour ago

            If you ever try to tell someone the publicly released undisputed facts of the Iran-Contra affair, you will come across like a conspiracy nut because what happened is so utterly absurdly criminal and yet there were virtually no consequences for anyone involved. One fall guy went to jail for a while and then came out as a Fox News correspondent.

            “The famously conservative president of the United States illegally sold weapons to a radical Islamist terrorist organization in Iran (the US’s mortal enemy in the middle east) and then used the proceeds to fund Central American guerrilla fighters that were also narcoterrorists? And nothing much ever came of it? Hah, as if!”

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        15 hours ago

        I mean Trump, W, Raygun, Nixon…

        Everyone says “caretaker president” perjoratively, but I’m starting to wonder if the presidents who do the least are the best.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Bush the I went to war for oil. No “WMD” bullshit cover story even. Just “we need that oil for profits, go send your children to die”. I stupidly thought that would wake people up.

        Ai yi yi.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          15 hours ago

          Well, if they weren’t going to wake up after Iran/Contra…or the allegations that Ronnie Raygun worked to purposefully fuck up the release of the Iran hostages [1] so that he could do it during his Inauguration…but no.

          They elected Bush Senior into office even though he was VP in the most criminal administration in history. I guess people could tell themselves that he somehow knew nothing about all the crimes, but…

          [1] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43368900/reagan-iran-hostages/