A BITE OF DANISH: It’s been said that all politics are personal and none are more personal than the politics of Donald Trump.

  The President sent a missive to Norway’s prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that because he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, he can continue with an unfettered campaign … possibly even military … to take over Greenland. “Dear Jonas,” Trump wrote, “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.”

  The Nobel Peace Prize is based in Norway but controlled by Nobel committees that choose the winners. The government of Norway does not determine the prizes and anyway, they don’t control Greenland, which is an independent territory of Denmark.

  Trump went on; “Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.”

  Boats also landed in North America. But Trump went on; “I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

  Overnight, Trump posted a meme of himself planting the American flag in Greenland backed by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

  The world may also not be secure of Trump keeps pursuing this path. Alain Berset, the secretary General of the Council of Europe, writes in The NY Times that, “International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.”

UNPOPULAR: Donald Trump today begins the second year of his second term in office with a disapproval rating of 55.1 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls. His average approval  rating is 42.5 percent.

  According to RCP Trump’s disapproval ratings on the following are higher than his approval.

  – Economy (-56.1)

  – Immigration (-51.3)

  – Inflation (-60.7) 

  – Foreign Policy (-54.1)

PROFITABLE: The NY Times estimates that President Trump and his family have profited $1.4 billion in the first year of this presidency from licensing the Trump name, legal settlements from tech and media companies, and even $28 million Amazon paid for rights to the documentary “Melania” about the first lady. 

THE REGIME: 

— The Justice Department says it is investigating a protest Sunday in Minnesota that broke up a church service led by a pastor who works as an official for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The pastor, David Easterwood, is the acting director of ICE’s field office for enforcement and removal operations in St. Paul.

  The Justice Department is citing a 1994 law  that bars using or threatening force or physical obstruction to interfere with someone worshiping at a religious institution.

  President Trump claimed on social media; “These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing.”

— ICE agents ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant 95 miles west of Minneapolis last week then came back later to grab the manager and other employees. The agents returned when the restaurant closed, then followed a car occupied by the manager and other restaurant employees.

HOOSIERS: Indiana University sealed a six-point victory with a last-minute interception last night to beat Miami 27-21 and win the university’s first-ever college football championship. It went right down to the wire and for further humiliation to Miami, the game was played at their home.

  Indiana entered the season as the losingest team in big time college football and finished undefeated in 16 games. They were guided by coach Curt Cignetti, a relative unknown who arrived at Indiana promising he could win, and with a contract deal worth $93 million, it’s a good thing he did.

THE OBIT PAGE:  Valentino Garavani, the fashion designer to the rich and royal known simply as “Valentino,” died yesterday at home in Rome at age 93.

  Known sometimes as “the last emperor” and the “the Sheik of chic,” Valentino created an empire simply by dressing the world’s notables. Walter Veltroni, then the mayor of Rome, said in 2005, “In Italy, there is the Pope — and there is Valentino.” 

  You’ve seen his styles. He made the cream lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis in 1968; the dress Bernadette Chirac wore when her husband Jacques was sworn in as president of France in 1995; the black-and-white gown Julia Roberts wore when she won the best actress Oscar in 2001. Valentino even made the dress worn by Farah Diba when she and her husband the Shah of Iran fled the country in 1979. There were many more. He loved the color red, “Valentino Red.”

  “It is very, very simple,” Valentino told The New York Times in 2007. “I try to make my girls look sensational.”

THE SPIN RACK: The number of dead after that Spanish train collision is up to 41. Survivors describe a gruesome scene with bodies torn apart. Responders are still picking apart the wreckage looking for victims. — An Indiana judge and his wife are recovering after being shot in their Lafayette, Indiana home yesterday afternoon. Reports say a man came to the house claiming to have found the couple’s dog then fired through the front door. — Uncooked French fries … “chips” as they say over there … and onion rings have washed up and covered a British beach after a container ship lost some of its cargo.

BELOW THE FOLD: A Danish petition on the internet has collected 200,000 signatures calling for Denmark to buy California, renaming it “New Denmark,” and re-labelling Disneyland “Hans Christian Andersenland.”

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