Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
Hello. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
I want to talk today very briefly about the matter of Trump trolling. I’m kind of smiling, because a lot of people don’t know what to make of it.
It concerns four topics: Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America; assuming control of Greenland, or buying it, I should say; renegotiating the Panama Canal Treaty, with the idea that either they reform, the Panamanians, or we take acquisition of it; and then, of course, making Canada a particular state.
The traditional exegesis of all of these is that he’s trolling, and in reference to that, go back to “The Art of the Deal,” a ghostwritten book; “The Art of the Comeback,” etc. “The…
