The Art of the Deal (Greenland edition)

It’s apt that fewer radical started disconnected this week expecting that president-elect Donald Trump’s tendency to bargain Greenland would beryllium a standout story.

Or that Trump’s insistence connected taking backmost the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico “The Gulf of America.” Or his continued references to Canada arsenic America’s “51st State” portion threatening our bluish neighbour with a 25 percent tariff.

It whitethorn look that Trump is playing a applicable gag connected the satellite by making these proposals. But possibly not.

There’s astatine slightest 1 salient dependable who thinks that possibly there’s a method to his madness, immoderate wide goals and a fewer bedrock principles guiding them: Michael Froman, the president of the Council connected Foreign Relations and President Barack Obama’s 2nd U.S. commercialized representative.

“I deliberation that connected 1 hand, President Trump is the maestro of an unconventional attack to overseas argumentation and diplomacy, which sometimes possibly gets successful the mode of the information that underlying what he’s saying determination are grains of information that we should instrumentality seriously,” Froman said.

In this week’s occurrence of Playbook Deep Dive, Froman and Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels sermon the authorities of affairs successful the satellite that Trump is stepping into, however satellite leaders are watching and reacting to Trump’s each connection and what helium thinks Trump volition bash otherwise than Biden successful planetary blistery spots specified arsenic Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, and yes, Greenland.