The number of implausible events, strategies, directives and actions the country has seen this year is remarkable in scope. But where is there enough human invention to continue the creation of such distraction and danger?

Academics who study creativity say the basis is the combination of disparate concepts in new ways. And that is where the U.S. and its taxpayers now stand with the merging of tariffs and Greenland.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants Greenland. Longtime journalist James Fallows pointed to part of the recent New York Times interview with Trump. When asked why not just reopen U.S. bases in Greenland, allowed by a 1951 agreement, the president said that he wanted “to do it properly” and that, to him, it meant ownership which might make one wonder about every other country in which the U.S. has a military presence.

Looking through the entire Times transcript, it’s never clear why he considers Greenland so important for success, or what that would mean. But more objectively, it involves geopolitics on a vast scale, including putting the U.S. at odds with all NATO nations, as Denmark, which owns Greenland, is a member. The “most........

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