What to do about Donny’s threat to back him or else? Tell him to fuck off – politely, of course, by simply ignoring it and him. Yes, America’s economic power is still mighty, but he is becoming an irrelevant figure of fun more and more by the week (and thus screwing things for his White House cronies)

Occasionally, I am asked on Quora to answer this or that question. One of the most recent was

Does Europe, including the United Kingdom, have any realistic option other than acceding to President Trump’s demand to take over Greenland? It would help if he could say why exactly he wants Greenland.

Here is my response, and I am posting it here and now, because if I am right and Donny will be carted off shouting and screaming sooner rather than later, it would help. It might even gain me the, wholly spurious, of course, reputation as a visionary. And if I am wrong – who’s going to remember this post?

We certainly do, and it is simple: defy Trump and carry on defying him until he is no longer in power, and that might well be sooner than many think.

Trump faces a range of enormous problems, most political and some personal. Imminently, the Supreme Court will rule on the appeal against a court’s judgment that he does not have the constitutional authority unilaterally to impose tariffs.

Their decision is likely to go against him and cause him all kinds of problems. He might – he is not the sharpest blade in the box – try to tough it out, but that would compound his growing problems

Perhaps worse, if that is possible, what seemed like an iron grip on the Republican right is weakening considerably with a growing divided in MAGA with many supporters, for example, upset with many of his recent actions, not least that the man who assured them ‘no more foreign wars’ bombed Caracas, kidnapped the Venezuelan president and is talking, apparently seriously, of invading Greenland.

It also doesn’t help Trump that despite his, wholly fantastical claims that the US economy is thriving and he grades it A+++, relevant economic data, little by little, his demonstrating the opposite: it is not thriving and inflation is creeping up.

When prices for basic groceries, second-hand cars and rents (due to a decline in new home sales) are rising, it doesn’t matter what the man in the Oval Office is assuring you – most recently that it will all come good by the end of 2026! – it ain’t true!

MAGA men and women are reportedly also increasingly uncomfortable with the antics of ICE agents – yes, they might agree that ‘illegals’ should be apprehended with a view to deportation, but not like this. Some knuckle-draggers (with whom I have been mixing it on Truth Social until my accounts are banned) don’t mind at all, but many more don’t like the violence.

This creeping erosion of MAGA support also loosens Trump’s grip on the several hundred spineless Representatives who hitherto had bowed and cowed to him at every turn with both eyes on the threat that if they,

Demented? I’m not demented! I’m a wholly stable genius and I’ll bomb anyone who doesn’t agree with me, then I’ll sue what’s left of them for billions!

did not, they would be ‘primaried’. So what? they ask themselves, it doesn’t look certain look all that certain I would lose my seat. And, of course, those congressme and women who will not be standing anyway and the senators who will not be up for election and now casting about to establish where they left their spine.

Furthermore, although the ‘mid-terms’ are still nine months away, it seems very unlikely they will not become an electoral disaster for the Republicans, not least because, apart from the possibility that alternative non-MAGA Republican candidates might stand for election, the crucial independents have long lost faith with Trump and given they swung the vote his way on November 5, 2025.

What should worry Trump is that talk of ‘the 25th’ – invoking the constitutional amendment allowing for a president to be removed from office if he (no she, so far, natch, this is the macho ol’ US of A) – is also being whispered in Republican circles, the principle being ‘save what can be saved’. The far-right – Miller, Vought and Thiel – have a ready-made stood in VP Vance to replace Trump if and when, and when is looking more likely.

There is not doubt Trump suffered a mild stroke a month or two ago, and it is disconcerting that he now has visibly to fight off falling asleep in meetings. But arguably worse is that he shows definite signs of not being ‘all there’, unhinged, if you like, hence his, frankly, inexplicable recent decisions.

Talk that he might be suffering from frontal lobe dementia – as his father did in the last ten years of his life – are not mere Democrat mischief-making. So, the White House movers and shakers ask themselves, can we take the risk? Maybe it is time to put Donny out to pasture?

Thus, in short, what options does the UK and Europe have about Trump’s demand to own Greenland? Just the one – hold out till the old fraud is well under lock and key in some very comfortable, secure hospital in rural Pennsylvania. The new regime might show itself to be just as fascist but perhaps not quite as looney as the current one.