President Donald Trump has said the U.S. will revisit its stance on Greenland in the coming weeks.
Asked if he expected to take action on the territory, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday: “Let’s talk about Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine. We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months. Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days.”
He added: “We need Greenland from a national security situation. It’s so strategic.”
How is calling his incoherent ramblings a “deadline” helps anyone? At best it’s a misleading clickbait title.
Fyi here’s the definition of deadline - a time or day by which something must be done.
So what is the deadline?
Is it two months? Or 20 days? And what must happen by then?
It’s stupid to call this a deadline. But people reading the title only will actually believe there is some deadline pressure, and click on the article link to find out what that deadline is, but there is NO deadline.
Hence a clickbait title implying some looming deadline just so people click on it.
That’s exactly the problem of having to report what a crazy but ridiculously powerful person is saying. If you don’t take him seriously and just report that he’s just rambling incoherently then you’re going to be surprised when he actually uses his immense power. If you present his ramblings as a coherent declaration then you’re going to be discredited when he doesn’t follow through.
There is no easy answer here. I’m leaning towards the side that takes his sayings at face value because he’s too powerful not to.
By the way, it’s way less productive to direct your anger towards the journalists trying to make sense of what the madman is saying.
Also considering he does occasionally follow through on some of his ramblings and it’s quite apparent that the government apparatus will happily follow his orders (even if they shouldn’t), the prudent thing to do is report on them as though he’s serious about it.
Everyone with the capability to do so already understands that he simply regurgitates whatever shit someone manipulated him to say before the interview. That is when he’s coherent enough to make himself understood which frequently isn’t the case anymore. His dementia is already fairly advanced and it is going to accelerate even harder in the future. He’s sleeping standing up during official meetings, for fuck’s sake.
tl;dr: he’s not capable of making much sense anymore. The true power lurks behind him, we all know that.