WITH FRIENDS LIKE THE US: After insulting Denmark by suggesting it should consider selling Greenland to the United States in what he said was “essentially, it’s a large real estate deal,” President Trump declared he was the aggrieved party because of the brusque way the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, dismissed his offer as “absurd.”

“I thought that the prime minister’s statement that it was absurd, that was an absurd idea, was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say, ‘No, we wouldn’t be interested,’” Trump said yesterday, explaining why he canceled a planned September state visit to Denmark that was to include a meeting with the Danish queen.