What did Donald Trump do today?

He appointed an "envoy" to Greenland, which still doesn't want anything to do with him.

With news stories still landing about his DOJ's carefully (and illegally) groomed Epstein document release—and its botched attempt at a coverup of damning materials that got released anyway—Trump once again stayed safely hidden away from the press and the public. His only public "appearance" was a call-in lasting about a minute to a conservative political event.

He did take one official action: he appointed the current governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, to be his "envoy" to Greenland.

Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, and one of Trump's more bizarre fixations. He appears to believe that making it a territory of the United States—and not of a different NATO ally—is somehow essential for American national security. (The United States already operates a military base in Greenland.) In a few manic appearances early in his second term he went so far as to threaten to invade it and take it by force, before apparently mostly forgetting about it.

Then in August, the Trump administration was caught in what appears to have been a clumsy attempt at a covert influence operation, trying to drive a wedge between the tiny Greenlandic population and Denmark. 

It's not clear why Trump appointed Landry, the governor of a place about as unlike Greenland as it's possible to be. But then it's not clear why Trump needs an "envoy" at all. He sent his son, Donald Trump Jr., for a brief tourist appearance earlier this year, and Vice-President JD Vance visited the US military base. But those visits were poorly received: a planned meet-and-greet between locals and second lady Usha Vance had to be scrapped when literally nobody could be found who wanted to meet with her.

Why does this matter?

• This is placating the mad king's nonsense from top to bottom.