Is Donald Trump just a cosplay fascist, or does his threats to conquer Greenland and parts of Panama make him the real thing?

I was just watching a "highlights" video of Donald Trump's speech to Congress (if that's not a contradiction in terms) and I found it genuinely chilling when he said he was going to get his hands on Greenland "one way or another" and JD Vance started chuckling behind him.  It instantly called to mind Goebbels or Goering having a little snigger on the stage of a Nazi rally while Hitler taunted whichever country he had decided to invade next.

In Trump's first term it was always said that he couldn't really be considered a full-blown fascist because he didn't tick enough of the boxes, such as opposition to democracy and territorial expansionism.  The insurrection at the Capitol building obviously called into question the assumption that he wasn't an opponent of democracy, although that incident almost seemed like 'cosplay fascism' because he didn't have the steel to actually see through a proper coup attempt.  And the only vague talk of expansionism in the first term related to buying Greenland - I can't recall any suggestion of an invasion after Denmark said no to the proposal.

The Netanyahu regime in Israel actually fits in with the textbook definition of fascism much more comprehensively - it's militaristic, ethnonationalist, perpetually expansionist, genocidal (which only occurs in the most extreme forms of fascism), and its democratic status is questionable due to the apartheid nature of the state.  So arguably the main relationship of the US to fascism has been an indirect one via its enthusiastic enabling of Israeli fascism.

But that may be changing if the conquest of Greenland is a serious prospect.  Again, the only real question is whether this will prove to be cosplay fascism or the real deal.  The Panama Canal, Gaza and Canada are also apparently on Trump's shopping list for an expanded US empire.  The threats to Canada are generally taken less seriously than the ones against Greenland and Panama, but it strikes me that Greenland is not exactly contiguous with the US - there's a large expanse of Canada in between.  If the strategic location of Greenland makes it so irresistible to Trump, and if the fact that Denmark is a friendly country that already allows US military activity on its territory isn't sufficient for him, it's hard to see why the same logic wouldn't also apply to northern Canada.

Of course there isn't a cat in hell's chance of Canada becoming part of the US, whether Trump realises it or not.  But if that's his ambition, it means he's an expansionist on a Napoleonic scale, just as Hitler was.  The Empire he envisages would be more than double the geographical size of the present-day US (Canada is actually the larger of the two countries) and it would encompass the vast bulk of a whole continent.  That's a fascist prospectus, at the very least.