President Trump, now sworn in for his second term, is the epitome of a blowhard. Merriam-Webster’s definition of “an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person” is a pen portrait of him, and it has been his brand since his early days as a real estate mogul in the 1970s.

Since Trump first announced his candidacy for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination almost a decade ago, we have become numb to his outlandish rhetoric and inflammatory propositions, from his lies about where President Barack Obama was born to his suggestions that the Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executed for treason.

Having won reelection, Trump has turned his eye to the sort of territorial expansion that went out of vogue more than a century ago. He has suggested that Canada would become the 51st state of the Union, threatened to seize control of the Panama Canal and stated that America’s “ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for national security.

Some of Trump’s acolytes have tried to reassure audiences horrified by these wild claims and irrational demands, arguing that it is mere hyperbole used for........

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