{"id":160960,"date":"2026-01-19T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160960"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:01:08","slug":"the-toddler-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/19\/the-toddler-in-chief.html","title":{"rendered":"The Toddler-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another example of Donald Trump shrieking his displeasure for not being given things he thinks should be his.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize!&#8221; he cries out. &#8220;You Norwegians are all poopy-heads!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I deserve Greenland!&#8221; he screams. &#8220;You Danes are all poopy-heads!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind in all this that (a) the nation of Norway doesn&#8217;t give out the Nobel Prizes, or that (b) Norway and Denmark are long-term allies of the US, or that (c) the population of Greenland does not want to be owned by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Donald wants it. Therefore Donald should have it. Therefore anyone stopping him from having what he wants should be shouted at, bullied, threatened, and punished.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that giving Donald what he wants is no guarantee that won&#8217;t happen either. His\u00a0<em>quid pro quo<\/em> log has a <em>very<\/em> short expiry date.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s installment:<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dave1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/trump-tells-norway-he-no-longer-feels-obligation-think-only-peace-2026-01-19\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU prepares to retaliate\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU prepares to retaliate<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">U.S. President Donald Trump has linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought \"purely of Peace\" as the row over the island threatened to reignite a trade war with Europe.<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/trump-tells-norway-he-no-longer-feels-obligation-think-only-peace-2026-01-19\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Yes, see, for Donald, &#8220;peace&#8221; is only valuable if it gets him what he thinks he deserves. Like, say, a Nobel Peace Prize. If Norway\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t give him one, then obviously there&#8217;s no point in being &#8220;peaceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Again, the Norwegian government doesn&#8217;t give out the Nobel Peace Prize. But Donald, being Donald, assumes that if they really wanted to play ball with him, the Norwegian government would lean on the Nobel Committee to do so, or threaten their funding, or pass a law requiring they give him one, etc. Because that&#8217;s what government is for.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160963\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-160963\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b-650x391.png\" alt=\"Trump 2026-01\" width=\"650\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b-650x391.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trump-2026-01-b.png 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He also demands Mommy give him cake whenever he wants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not that Donald has been &#8220;peaceful&#8221; during his reign. Venezuela certainly doesn&#8217;t think so. Iran certainly doesn&#8217;t think so. Any of the number of places we&#8217;ve bombed or droned don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Donald thinks so<\/em> because, in his mind (as whispered to him by folk like Stephen Miller), if there was a possibility of a war and he said that he didn&#8217;t want it to happen, then if it didn&#8217;t happen it didn&#8217;t happen <em>because of him.<\/em> Thus his ever-changing, usually-but-not-always-growing tallies of wars he&#8217;s &#8220;stopped.&#8221; It&#8217;s magical thinking in its most twisted fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The result, according to his text to Norway&#8217;s PM:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the ridiculous claim that he &#8220;thinks purely of Peace,&#8221; the idea that not getting a Nobel Peace Prize means he should stop doing so demonstrates how trivial his commitment to &#8220;Peace&#8221; was.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, until Europe forces Denmark to hand over Greenland to him, he&#8217;ll keep imposing more and bigger tariffs. Because that&#8217;s how you&#8217;d expect a toddler to react. &#8220;Gimme what I want, or you&#8217;ll be sorry!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a toddler throw a tantrum is sometimes amusing, often aggravating. 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