Allow me this brief admission, which is that my meager command of English is failing me as I search for expressions to condemn the actions of the charlatan who sits in the Oval Office.

I am running out of ways to knee-cap Donald Trump’s efforts to disobey international law, to ignore the federal courts and to seize control of a sovereign government because its leader follows policies that Trump abhors.

Get this, kids. Now Trump appears to be ratcheting up the chatter associated with a possible takeover of Greenland, an Arctic island that exists as a territory of Denmark.

Greenland is no speck in the Arctic Ocean. It covers about 836,000 square miles, or about three times as much land mass as Texas. Someone will have to explain to me — in language I can understand — precisely why Trump would want Greenland. It’s covered in ice most of the year. Almost no human being lives there. But Trump seems to suggest he wants it. What the ever-lovin’ hell has POTUS been swilling?

The Danes aren’t going to surrender Greenland. Denmark, just like Venezuela, is a sovereign nation and it has held Greenland for several hundred years.

I cannot grasp whatever reason is rattling around Trump’s vacuous skull about why he wants Greenland. I am going to have to settle on a conclusion that Trump’s delusions of godhood and grandeur need to be reined in … right now!

Hold on a doggone minute, Mr. President!

You said you wanted to “put America first.” You campaigned in those battleground states pledging to concentrate on Americans’ needs while suggesting the United States no longer should be “the world’s policeman.”

Now you’re saying, as you did today, that you are keeping the “military option” open for — gulp! — Venezuela. Are you serious, sir? Are you pulling our leg? Do you mean to suggest that you just might deploy American troops to that South American nation? To do what? To put down a civil uprising?

Yeah, I get that they in the midst of a political crisis. Venezuelans are upset over their leadership. There’s been violence. People have died.

You said, “The people are suffering and they are dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary.”

If necessary? What on Earth would make such a thing necessary?

Good grief, Mr. President! Please put a sock in it. Please stop talking so damn openly about sending our troops into yet another possible danger zone.

That’s not how you “put America first.”