Politico looks at what they call Donald Trump’s “cartographic compulsion”—the ways that maps have turned up in his political career over and over, from his use of election maps to Sharpie-gate in his first term, to his musings on Canada, Greenland and Gaza, plus his propensity to rename things, in the early days of his second. That his obsession with Canada and Greenland might be chalked up to how big they appear on a map—especially a Mercator projection of the world—comes as little surprise. Kenneth Field covered much of the same territory, at least as far as his first term is concerned, in this 2019 piece; for my previous coverage of this nonsense see posts tagged Trump.