A lion in winter

Observers note that most Americans including Trump cannot even locate Greenland on a map. At Davos he mistook it for Iceland twice, then when caught out denied he had made a mistake. — Eric Lee/The New York Times

SPECIMEN Trump is far removed from Davos Man, but he nonetheless made this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) platform work for him.

In the buildup to the week’s WEF the Trump administration was blowing hot and cold about annexing Greenland, grabbing it from Denmark regardless of international law. Fresh from attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its head of state, Team Trump would not rule out military force against a fellow Nato member.