From kidnapping the Venezuelan President to unleashing a masked paramilitary force on his own people, from threatening to invade Greenland to sulking over the Nobel Peace Prize in an unhinged letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Donald Trump has never been so volatile, or so dangerous.

“He believes in the second term that nobody can stop him. In the first term, he didn't really know his way around the White House. He didn't know his way around the political machines.

“But also this time he's surrounded by people who just will not say no to him.

Marion McKeone has been writing about American politics for decades, and her article in Monday’s Irish Examiner laid out the Greenland situation starkly.

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