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That might annoy Trump enough to register the fact the Putin is just like him.

He will never say anything bad about Putin because that would mean admitting that he was wrong about Putin before, and of course Trump is never wrong.

I'm with you. I wouldn't willingly jump out of a helicopter or swim with sharks either. Life is risky enough as it is.

I wasn't being serious, Nev.

So not keen on helicopters either then, Nev?

Pity the banks don’t pick up all those costs themselves seeing the ATM’s are there so people can get access to their bank accounts. They make enough money as it is.

It has to be BS. The only way a walkout would have happened is if he said "Let's break for lunch".

I had one of those. Never lost anything.

I must be an outlier. I've never owned a pair of thongs. Don't know how people manage to walk in the floppy things.

And they are working hard to subvert the election: Heather Honey is an outspoken election denier and the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Republican National Committee (RNC) has created a new "election integrity" division, with Trump ally and attorney Christina Bobb serving as senior counsel for election integrity. Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer involved in challenging the 2020 election results, who now leads the civil rights division of the Justice Department. Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved in the "Stop the Steal" movement, is a special government employee involved in investigating the 2020 election. Cleta Mitchell, a prominent conservative lawyer, founded the Election Integrity Network, an activist group that coordinates with individuals like Honey and supports these appointments. Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams, who were part of Trump's 2017 Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, continue to promote strict voting regulations through conservative foundations Some judges have so far stopped other attempts to swing the election in Trump's favour: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/09/election-trump-order-ruling-00721151

He told the New York Times in an Oval Office interview yesterday that the only limit on his power is “ my own morality, my own mind”. When asked if he needed to comply with international law, he said “yes, depending on what your definition of international law is. I don’t need international law”.

The New York Times interviewed Trump on why he wants to own Greenland and why security agreements and cooperation are not good enough: The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. It was not enough to exercise the U.S. right, under a 1951 treaty, to reopen long-closed military bases on the huge landmass, which is a strategically important crossroads for U.S., European, Chinese and Russian naval operations. The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. “Ownership is very important,” Mr. Trump said as he discussed, with a real estate mogul’s eye, the landmass of Greenland — three times the size of Texas but with a population of less than 60,000. He seemed to dismiss the value of having Greenland under the control of a close NATO ally. When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.” In other words, it's not about national security concerns or not having access to rare earth minerals - it's all about feeling good about having a piece of paper that says he owns it.

That’s true but Trump’s focus is now on the Western hemisphere and he’s pretty short sighted when it comes to strategic thinking. Hopefully his more level headed military advisors would stop him walking away completely. Even so, his instinct is to reduce his overseas forces and get the NATO countries to make up the shortfall.

I'm not sure that would be the most useful response.

Trump would see that as a good outcome. He doesn't believe in alliances generally, and only has contempt for NATO.