In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island.

For weeks, Trump stuck firmly to a take-it-or-leave-it position on Greenland, insisting that nothing short of the U.S. owning the Danish territory would address his national security concerns.

On Wednesday, Trump made a detailed case for U.S. control of the island during an hour-plus speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Then, barely four hours after leaving the stage, Trump demolished any shred of validity to his claims.

The president posted on social media that he “had formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region” as a result of a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that lasted less than an hour.

    • ripcord
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      17 hours ago

      With Trump all it takes, most of the time, is

      A) to suck up and tell him how great he is

      B) tell him how good something will make him look

      C) be the last one to have talked to him

      And sometimes D) how whatever it is that you’re proposing lines up with something he is convinced is true. Which you tell him is true and how smart he is for being the only one to figure it out.