Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet and silly season has already begun

He wants to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. And now wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America

Beginning with his “Merry Christmas to all” tweet that he wanted to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland, Donald Trump has not relented in his absurd claims, extended to renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Photo: AP/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump’s silly season has already caused irreparable damage to United States national security. 

Despite not yet holding office for a minute, Trump has made it plain that in his second term the US will be an unreliable partner swayed by his personal whim, that he has no respect for historic alliances and that he has contempt for the rule-based international order that the US has led since the end of the Second World War to prevent the re-emergence of catastrophic great power collisions.