What Newsrooms Don't Understand About the Greenland Deployments

Truly, there is no more perfect union than the one between President Trump and the press.

The two are a match made in heaven.

Trump feeds on the press’s undivided attention, and the press feeds on Trump’s sensationalism. For all the “resist” and “fake news” argle-bargle, they live for each other.

Consider the recent hair-on-fire news coverage of Europe’s reaction to Trump’s threat to invade Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, a NATO ally. The tone and style of the coverage have been positively Trumpian, depicting a heated negotiation as the start of a new world war.

“Denmark ‘will shoot first and ask questions later’ over Greenland,” reads one scary headline from the U.K.’s Telegraph.