These signs show Trump's maddest threat yet might be blocked … amid the blizzard of crazy

Seizing Greenland? Seriously? This is where we’re at? It seemed like some bizarro Dr. Strangelove fantasy. And yet what was once dismissed as preposterous has exploded into a genuine diplomatic emergency.

It was the capper to another surreal week in Trump’s America, one that would have left George Orwell muttering, “Told ya.”

There is no sane reason for Trump to want to “own” Greenland, but plenty of insane ones. When asked why acquiring it by force was important to him, his response to the New York Times was...