Deciphering Trump Threats Is a Greenland-Sized Challenge for GOP

Is President Donald Trump preparing to use military force to acquire Greenland?

“I don’t think anybody’s seriously considering that,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday. “And in the Congress we’re certainly not.”

“I certainly don’t foresee a military action,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).

“We are not looking at” a military operation, said Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chair of the Armed Services Committee.

All of which might be news to some of Trump’s closest aides, who have strongly suggested that military action is, in fact, an option as the president looks to continue his international foray and acquire territory he ...