The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast: Greenland threats, Nobel rage and unchecked power

Veteran US analyst Marion McKeone warns Donald Trump’s second term shows a leader more volatile and unchecked than ever

Marion McKeone warns Trump’s second term could be more volatile — and dangerous — than his first.

From kidnapping the Venezuelan president to unleashing a masked paramilitary force on his own people, and from threatening to invade Greenland to sulking over the Nobel Peace Prize in an unhinged letter to the Norwegian prime minister, Donald Trump has rarely appeared so volatile — or so dangerous.

“He believes in the second term that nobody can stop him. In the first term, he didn't really know his way around the White House. He didn't know his way around the political machines.

“But also this time he's surrounded by people who just will not say no to him.” 

Marion McKeone has been writing about American politics for decades, and her article in Monday’s Irish Examiner set out the Greenland situation starkly.