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Trump’s Board of Peace is already floundering

Trump’s attempt to rival the U.N., with him in charge, is likely to disappear and be quickly forgotten.

By MAX BOOT

Washington Post
January 26, 2025

President Donald Trump is often accused of being a warmonger and a rogue leader who acts in defiance of international law and global opinion. His menacing plan (abandoned for now) to seize Greenland from Denmark, the “easy way” or the “hard way,” shows why that characterization has become so widely accepted outside his MAGA base.

As if to refute the allegation, Trump last week rolled out a Board of Peace designed — as he wrote in a gushing invitation letter to the prime minister of Sweden — to “bring together a distinguished group of nations ready to shoulder the noble responsibility of building LASTING PEACE.”

But whatever the superficial differences between Trump’s contemplated annexation of Greenland and his attempt to create what the invitation bills as “the most impressive and consequential Board ever assembled,” they are manifestations of the same impulse: Trump wants to do whatever he wants, wherever he wants, unconstrained by any checks or balances, and he would like to make a lot of money doing it.