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BumRushDaShow

(149,758 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 03:46 PM Thursday

Trump Says The U.S. Will 'Go As Far As We Have To Go' To Acquire Greenland

Source: Huff Post

Mar 27, 2025, 10:53 AM EDT


President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the purpose of Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Greenland is to reinforce the idea that the U.S. has to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory, warning that Americans will “go as far as we have to go” to get control of the island.

In an interview with Vince Coglianese, Trump said a U.S. delegation was traveling to the territory this week “to let them know that we need Greenland for international safety and security.” “We need it, we have to have it,” Trump said. “It’s a island that from a defensive posture and even offensive posture is something we need, especially with the world the way it is.”

“I hate to put it that way, but we’re gonna have to have it,” he continued. Asked if he thinks the Greenlandic public would be on board with his plans, Trump said he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t think they’re un-eager, but I think that we have to do it and we have to convince them.”

A recent poll shows the overwhelming majority of the people of Greenland oppose joining the U.S. This is not stopping Trump, who separately told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the U.S. “will go as far as we have to go” to get control of Greenland.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-increases-pressure-greenland_n_67e541b4e4b03374624d0580/amp



25th Amendment time.
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Trump Says The U.S. Will 'Go As Far As We Have To Go' To Acquire Greenland (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Thursday OP
I'm willing to impeach Chump and remove him from office FakeNoose Thursday #1
How about dropping him, from 70,000' DENVERPOPS Thursday #65
parachute? n/t BaronChocula Thursday #73
100% optional on that parachute... (n/t) Moostache Thursday #76
Nope DENVERPOPS Thursday #93
Jumping to a ... alimbalt Friday #139
Wish he would visit the inside of an active volcano... Like he could just DROP in to say HI. Trueblue1968 Thursday #100
... ruet Thursday #2
He wants it mostly because it looks so big on a Mercator projection map PSPS Thursday #3
He can't wait to rename it "Trumpland" FakeNoose Thursday #17
See? He has the highest number! Best in class! erronis Thursday #26
And he has a matching IQ to boot! GreenWave Thursday #51
Heehee. And his new number 47 has to be even worst. brush Friday #120
Yes, now he's the TWO worst presidents in the US History FakeNoose Friday #135
LOL! Stonealone Thursday #47
Where the f is George W. Bush on that list? RazorbackExpat Thursday #97
Where are both Bush's and Reagan? This is the best thinking of "experts"? LT Barclay Thursday #105
John Tyler was a full on traitor. He was a member of the confederate House of Representatives. Lucky Luciano Friday #119
Green $$$ land. BattleRow Thursday #29
LOL electric_blue68 Thursday #75
He's jealous because Putin has such a big land area on the map OnionPatch Thursday #86
He wants it... JPK Thursday #101
All anybody needs to know about this bastard is two words: calimary Friday #116
Greenland, a current territory of Denmark needs to get the troops ready. wcmagumba Thursday #4
I hope he's sending his Jan6 mob. I don't want to pay for this stupidity mdbl Thursday #6
I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Nt Hope22 Thursday #34
They aren't a bright bunch mdbl Friday #131
I see that coming if he continues this nonsense Bayard Thursday #8
Nobody on earth benefits from another world war. ananda Thursday #22
There are too many people BidenRocks Thursday #109
Should be a force of all European nations. harun Thursday #16
Before invading he will try the Art of the Deal. thought crime Thursday #40
Thanks.. the only chuckle I got from this whole thread mountain grammy Thursday #59
45,000 Greenlanders X $10 million VMA131Marine Thursday #92
And no crypto! BadgerMom Friday #112
The 34-times convicted felon (unanimously by a Jury) does not pay his bills Justice matters. Friday #114
Indeed -- for all the talk of how Greenlanders feel about this, EarlG Thursday #53
The NATO members, (less the U.S.) DENVERPOPS Thursday #68
TY so much for this, EarlG. I have been thinking Cha Thursday #70
He could literally precipitate WW3. Humanity doesn't need that. WheelWalker Thursday #106
Right wingers will impeach him if our Baitball Blogger Thursday #5
I wish I had your faith. Scrivener7 Thursday #9
No, they won't. maxsolomon Thursday #10
Nope.. Because shared hate is more important than anything. LiberalArkie Thursday #14
I'm assuming he also wants it to Captain Zero Thursday #33
Just like they impeached GW Bush for sacrificing thousands of servicemen Martin Eden Friday #125
GW Bush indeed escaped legal justice for that. Baitball Blogger Friday #132
Every time I see a commercial featuring horribly maimed veterans, pleading for money Martin Eden Friday #133
This message was self-deleted by its author bucolic_frolic Thursday #7
This message was self-deleted by its author vapor2 Thursday #11
Probably. That South African white supremacist thinks that he should control it all. SharonAnn Thursday #28
Freedomland thought crime Thursday #45
Freedonia, it's been run by idiots before, might as well these idiots too. dem4decades Thursday #62
"Are you like a crazy person?" (SARCASM at Trump) /nt artemisia1 Thursday #12
Nope. Won't happen. twodogsbarking Thursday #13
I often get fooled thinking The Borowitz Report is real reporting until I glance a the source. Torchlight Thursday #15
The Goodbye Look thought crime Thursday #64
For a quick second I was thinking the op was the onion and was going to have a chuckle--then riversedge Thursday #90
That would start... Chi67 Thursday #18
..if the motherfucker were to view.. thomski64 Thursday #57
No. In fact, he sees Putin as a HUGE threat johnnyfins Thursday #60
No it won't Polybius Friday #122
Somehow he thinks that he needs it MuseRider Thursday #19
He sees something he wants, he just pops a couple TicTacs and grabs it. tanyev Thursday #72
Exactly, that is all it takes. MuseRider Thursday #98
He should be fucking overthrown for saying this shit out loud. It's happened to more competent dictators for much less. Karasu Thursday #20
..saying ridiculous shit, constantly.. thomski64 Thursday #61
That's how his reptilian brain works. "I want it." "I'll grab it by the pussy." "They let me do it." erronis Thursday #21
This is basically the same as Lex Luthor's idea Don1 Thursday #23
Greenlanders: "Thanks for asking, but are you fucking kidding me?". EarnestPutz Thursday #24
this "we need it, we have to have it bullshit" sounds like a tag line from an old food commercial orleans Thursday #25
ALso sounds like classic addiction talk. Amaryllis Thursday #36
The world is so bad right now? But, i thought Donald was good friends with Vlad and Kim. txwhitedove Thursday #27
If I was 20 instead of 68 I'd volunteer for Greenland... wcmagumba Thursday #30
Trump needs a new home in an insane asylum. It's definitely A 25 time. flashman13 Thursday #31
I''m not so sure they wouldn't. Many of the analyses I've seen on that scenario suggest you'd have an intramilitary Karasu Thursday #41
In that Bible of yours, JD... heckles65 Thursday #32
He's threatening a NATO ally with unprovoked aggression, so yes it's 25 Amendment time. Uncle Joe Thursday #35
"We need it. We have to have it!"-the chant of every four-year-old who has never been told "no". Midnight Writer Thursday #37
End of the EU? Angrboda Thursday #38
Are you sure? Little is so compelling as having a common enemy. n/t NH Ethylene Thursday #89
greenland should kick all us troops out moonshinegnomie Thursday #39
Yep. They should bar this JD Vance clown troupe from entering the country at all. Karasu Thursday #43
or even better,arrest him moonshinegnomie Thursday #50
As nice as that would be, Trump would definitely use it as an excuse to attack/invade. But I really don't understand why Karasu Thursday #63
Trump would love that Polybius Friday #123
The Phat man says coprolite Thursday #42
I think there are too many numbers in that last sentence. niyad Thursday #44
This smells of a usual Trump move... Pesky1 Thursday #46
Big talk from the little man....trying to deflect from signalgate PortTack Thursday #48
Trump was always a fucking psychopath, now he's completely lost touch with reality. sop Thursday #49
SLAVA GREENLAND! Marcuse Thursday #52
I'm with Greenland. C_U_L8R Thursday #54
Oust this nutcase already! AllyCat Thursday #55
WTF does that mean invasion sanctions///// Historic NY Thursday #56
Some military people that have his ear have convinced him that this is necessary. He has no idea what he is doing beyon Evolve Dammit Thursday #58
More like Musk and Thiel. Karasu Thursday #96
I was just thinking about why this is an obsession and remembered that there is still a lot of pushing and shoving LT Barclay Friday #118
yes indeed now that shipping channels can be open more or less year round. Lotsa oil too. What could go wrong? Evolve Dammit Friday #136
How long until we send troops in? KatyaR Thursday #66
Maybe he should take a long walk on a short pier to show how determined he is! GreenWave Thursday #67
Hey, the thought just occurred to me that Orange Julius Caesar's major jonesing for Greenland generalbetrayus Thursday #69
Fuck this shit. Paladin Thursday #71
Prezzidint Shit-For-Brains... GiqueCee Thursday #74
For now. It will be melting. Marcuse Thursday #82
True... GiqueCee Friday #129
I guess it's that mineral(?) whatever stillcool Thursday #77
So if he thinks he needs it so badly, defacto7 Thursday #78
When he breaks the NATO Treaty that is the law of the land, the US Military should refuse all orders. ancianita Thursday #79
Canada and Denmark could invoke Article 5. Marcuse Thursday #85
Yep. 31 militaries against this one. ancianita Thursday #88
They absolutely should if he fucking tries. Karasu Thursday #95
I hate to put it this way, but we're going to have to have this guy committed to a facility for the criminally insane Blues Heron Thursday #80
Like St. Helena? WheelWalker Thursday #103
Weasel words. "I don't think they're un-eager." louis-t Thursday #81
That made-up word stumped me too! BumRushDaShow Thursday #83
I don't think Finland or Sweden will attack us. louis-t Thursday #84
Sounds like something he'd say about a woman he raped Hekate Thursday #111
"To Acquire Greenland", "to get control of the island"... and then what? Make them a state? Norrrm Thursday #87
People have been treating this as a joke, but someone needs to stop him (looking at you, Congress) NH Ethylene Thursday #91
Why did I think of this: Marthe48 Thursday #94
This is incredibly apropos, that's why. I've just shared it with 3 other people. SMH Hekate Friday #113
This is crazy. Figarosmom Thursday #99
We don't "have to aquire" anything. If the US needs more space for military bases on Greenland, Jack Valentino Thursday #102
Naksarlugu! Taikkua maligarnik uqallaktiujut uvattinniimmata. dobleremolque Thursday #104
Americans will go as far as we have to go to defend NATO, traitor. AmericaUnderSiege Thursday #107
Give it up, orange shit-head. calimary Thursday #108
I'm willing to go as far as I have to remove these fucking maniacs from power. Initech Thursday #110
We are agreed that he is nuttier than squirrel poop, right? Hekate Friday #115
Twice impeached convicted felon IronLionZion Friday #117
How many GOP Congress members and Senators to we need to barbeque to stop this????? Ford_Prefect Friday #121
If this isn't Borowitz HarryM Friday #124
Trump's statement is a declaration of war. Greenland and Denmark made it clear they don't want to hand land to MAGA Doodley Friday #126
But then ONLY Congress can formally "declare War" BumRushDaShow Friday #128
'Go As Far As We Have To Go' Aussie105 Friday #127
Stick'em up! no_hypocrisy Friday #130
This is why you don't put psychopaths in the President's chair. travelingthrulife Friday #134
I expect that someone will "go as far as they have to" in order to stop him. Oopsie Daisy Friday #137
One sick metal case who should be removed by the Constitution Article 25. Bengus81 Friday #138
Coming soon: "Elon! Buy me Greenland!" intrepidity Friday #140

DENVERPOPS

(11,568 posts)
65. How about dropping him, from 70,000'
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:07 PM
Thursday

with a parachute, from an SR-71 over Moscow.............

Putin STRATEGICALLY wants: Greenland, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska for Russia's future global domination. Putin desperately needs them all.......

All Trump is doing is following Putin's orders, along with most other things the Trump/Musk/CABAL are doing........

DENVERPOPS

(11,568 posts)
93. Nope
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:37 PM
Thursday

I want them to live and experience being a Russian citizen under Putin....

Trump, All Republican Politicians, and the entire Republican CABAL.............

They will all have outgrown their usefulness to Putin, so he will probably shoot them out of the sky before they land.....

Trueblue1968

(18,433 posts)
100. Wish he would visit the inside of an active volcano... Like he could just DROP in to say HI.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:30 PM
Thursday

Stonealone

(18 posts)
47. LOL!
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:28 PM
Thursday

Love it! and I'll bet you that he will make sure that there is a beautiful woman behind every tree!

RazorbackExpat

(402 posts)
97. Where the f is George W. Bush on that list?
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 08:26 PM
Thursday

Stolen election, sitting in a 2nd grade classroom like an idiot during 9-11, two bullshit wars, ramming through the "PATRIOT" Act, secret no-fly lists (which even included Senator Ted Kennedy), secret roundups of Muslims, two recessions, housing crisis, constant terror terror terror...

How the f were any of the presidents on that list worse than that?

LT Barclay

(2,887 posts)
105. Where are both Bush's and Reagan? This is the best thinking of "experts"?
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 10:47 PM
Thursday

Why do so many people have difficulty with phraseology of "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic"?
The Constitution is a concept and a organizational structure. So it can't be burned down like a building. So an "enemy of the Constitution" is is someone who is out to destroy our system of self-goverance .
So while some of these guys may have been serious screw ups and make some major errors, I doubt that many of them reached the level of enemy of the constitution like Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Bush daddy's puppet, and Trump.
I'm sick of the right wing celebrations when they get what they want no matter what it does to the country. Which includes everyone from the voters to the demented bastards orchestrating this shit show.

Lucky Luciano

(11,596 posts)
119. John Tyler was a full on traitor. He was a member of the confederate House of Representatives.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 01:07 AM
Friday

The union should have been much more viciously harsh during reconstruction.

wcmagumba

(3,736 posts)
4. Greenland, a current territory of Denmark needs to get the troops ready.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 03:53 PM
Thursday

If blob man orders an invasion of Greenland NATO (sans US) should repel rump's goons...

mdbl

(6,017 posts)
131. They aren't a bright bunch
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:32 AM
Friday

It wouldn't take much for Greenland to show them the ocean.

Bayard

(24,607 posts)
8. I see that coming if he continues this nonsense
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 03:58 PM
Thursday

He insists Greenland is a security issue now, under his watch, when it never was previously. I can see WWIII in our future, and no one benefits but Putin.

BidenRocks

(1,242 posts)
109. There are too many people
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 11:25 PM
Thursday

who would sabotage unamerican actions against friendlies.
My country right or wrong, is crap!

thought crime

(43 posts)
40. Before invading he will try the Art of the Deal.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:09 PM
Thursday

How much would it take for each Greenlander to sell out? A million dollars? Two million? Three million? What if they sell out but can keep Danish citizen rights for life? How many would take the deal? What happens if he did that and China made a higher bid? Or offered to buy Alaska?

VMA131Marine

(4,917 posts)
92. 45,000 Greenlanders X $10 million
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:30 PM
Thursday

Equals $450 billion!

That’s almost real money …

But they better ask for cash not T-bills!

Justice matters.

(8,196 posts)
114. The 34-times convicted felon (unanimously by a Jury) does not pay his bills
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:06 AM
Friday

and all Greenlanders know it (better than 77 million American voters who voted against their own self interests).

EarlG

(22,811 posts)
53. Indeed -- for all the talk of how Greenlanders feel about this,
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:46 PM
Thursday

lets not forget that Greenland is a territory of Denmark, and all its citizens are Danish citizens. Denmark is a founding member of NATO and is protected by Article 5 which states than an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members.

Does Greenland count for the purposes of an Article 5 intervention? According to Article 6:

For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

* on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;

https://www.nato.int/cps/ua/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

Obviously a NATO country has never been attacked by another NATO country, but that's where Trump is leading us currently.

DENVERPOPS

(11,568 posts)
68. The NATO members, (less the U.S.)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:12 PM
Thursday

will consider any impending action on Greenland, by Trump, as a line in the sand......

Cha

(309,082 posts)
70. TY so much for this, EarlG. I have been thinking
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:20 PM
Thursday

about Denmark. And how they and NATO can help Greenland.

I think Greenland is MumPutin's first stop on their attempt to take over World Domination.

WheelWalker

(9,318 posts)
106. He could literally precipitate WW3. Humanity doesn't need that.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 10:48 PM
Thursday

Most of humanity, including most world leaders with real power, don't need or want that. It might not be American politicians or even the American people who put an end to his Napoleonic insanity.

Captain Zero

(7,776 posts)
33. I'm assuming he also wants it to
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:53 PM
Thursday

Be a base for his evil intents on Canada.
Sad to say.
Elbows up.

Martin Eden

(14,056 posts)
125. Just like they impeached GW Bush for sacrificing thousands of servicemen
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:01 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:38 AM - Edit history (1)

In Iraq going after non-existent WMD.

He even joked about it, pretending to look under his desk.

Baitball Blogger

(49,611 posts)
132. GW Bush indeed escaped legal justice for that.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:36 AM
Friday

But Cheney was already talking about a long-term war. So, what happened? I saw a priest comment that they were told it would only take a few days, Shock and Awe, because they expected to kill Saddam Hussein during the bombing. And then, when we it was prolonged, there was video of heartland moms cock-blocking Army recruiters saying that their sons at home with them.

So, yes, there was a massive shift in sentiment in the red states and GW Bush had to pull out.

The problem for Trump is that he doesn't have the massive support for an attack against any country he's targeting, so expect something fabricated to occur.

Martin Eden

(14,056 posts)
133. Every time I see a commercial featuring horribly maimed veterans, pleading for money
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:41 AM
Friday

I curse Bush and Cheney, who belong in prison for war crimes.

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Torchlight

(4,434 posts)
15. I often get fooled thinking The Borowitz Report is real reporting until I glance a the source.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:18 PM
Thursday

Now I think I'm going to get fooled by real news thinking it's satire until I read the source.

That foolish, short-sighted degenerate is forcing the next four generations of Americans to apologize to the entire world for his idiot buffoonery.

thought crime

(43 posts)
64. The Goodbye Look
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:06 PM
Thursday

Apparently Make America Go Away hats are selling well. I believe we just got the Goodbye Look.

riversedge

(74,692 posts)
90. For a quick second I was thinking the op was the onion and was going to have a chuckle--then
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:24 PM
Thursday

I did a quick chin up motion and said aloud. OMG!!

thomski64

(644 posts)
57. ..if the motherfucker were to view..
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:50 PM
Thursday

..Russia as an adversary, it might make sense to beef up our military presence there, to annex it would only be to exploit resources.....
Clearly dipshit doesn't see Putin as a threat, more someone to felate.. So that leaves two reasons, 1,) there are minerals there ( perhaps even unobtainium!!) 2.) Because he's the biggest asshole in the world..

johnnyfins

(1,883 posts)
60. No. In fact, he sees Putin as a HUGE threat
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:56 PM
Thursday

TO HIM PERSONALLY!!!!! Vlad's got the goods on TSF. That's for certain.

MuseRider

(34,537 posts)
19. Somehow he thinks that he needs it
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:36 PM
Thursday

and he wants it and that is all he needs to get it, he already owns it in his mind. We all know this guy is crazy and that he thinks he can always get what he wants but speaking of Greenland and the people who live there like that just makes my skin crawl. It is his announcement that none of us are anything more than what he wants us to be at any time and all the toys are his. We have always known this but just seeing it in writing and supposedly from his own gross, dirty mouth is the creepiest thing I have ever read.

MuseRider

(34,537 posts)
98. Exactly, that is all it takes.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 08:29 PM
Thursday

Most of us have to make money, he just has it and it means absolutely nothing other than that it provides everything he wants. A disgusting pig.

Karasu

(842 posts)
20. He should be fucking overthrown for saying this shit out loud. It's happened to more competent dictators for much less.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:40 PM
Thursday

thomski64

(644 posts)
61. ..saying ridiculous shit, constantly..
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:58 PM
Thursday

Is to distract from his disastrous failure as a human being..
See we're all talking about him...

erronis

(18,617 posts)
21. That's how his reptilian brain works. "I want it." "I'll grab it by the pussy." "They let me do it."
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:42 PM
Thursday

Don1

(1,663 posts)
23. This is basically the same as Lex Luthor's idea
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:42 PM
Thursday

He knows climate change is real, Greenland is warming, US states will experience tons of problems, wildfires etc. He wants to buy up Greenland real estate in anticipation.

orleans

(35,817 posts)
25. this "we need it, we have to have it bullshit" sounds like a tag line from an old food commercial
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:44 PM
Thursday

absolutely 25th amendment time

txwhitedove

(4,094 posts)
27. The world is so bad right now? But, i thought Donald was good friends with Vlad and Kim.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:45 PM
Thursday

We weren't fighting with the rest of the world until Donald took office.

🫣



flashman13

(1,099 posts)
31. Trump needs a new home in an insane asylum. It's definitely A 25 time.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:48 PM
Thursday

I'm going out on a limb here to say that the U.S. military would not obey a clearly illegal order to attack Denmark/Greenland.

Karasu

(842 posts)
41. I''m not so sure they wouldn't. Many of the analyses I've seen on that scenario suggest you'd have an intramilitary
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:11 PM
Thursday

conflict as a result, bu it would likely still end up happening. I personally doubt it for much the same reason that I don't see the military overthrowing this administration, even when they really now have every bit of incentive to do so. Americans have long since been conditioned to "do their jobs" above all else.

Uncle Joe

(61,205 posts)
35. He's threatening a NATO ally with unprovoked aggression, so yes it's 25 Amendment time.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:00 PM
Thursday

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

Midnight Writer

(23,594 posts)
37. "We need it. We have to have it!"-the chant of every four-year-old who has never been told "no".
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:01 PM
Thursday

Angrboda

(2 posts)
38. End of the EU?
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:03 PM
Thursday

If the US annexes Greenland, it would be the end of NATO. The EU would be deeply divided on defending Denmark, and that could break up the union. Greenland is surely the Achille's heel that would be the easiest way to weaken or destroy the EU and spark a withdrawal of US troops in Europe, long term goals of the Kremlin, and, apparently, Trump. Pawn takes queen.

moonshinegnomie

(3,239 posts)
50. or even better,arrest him
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:43 PM
Thursday

send him to a maximum security prison in some place like iran....

Karasu

(842 posts)
63. As nice as that would be, Trump would definitely use it as an excuse to attack/invade. But I really don't understand why
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:00 PM
Thursday

they aren't just refusing to allow entry, which they can very easily do.

coprolite

(364 posts)
42. The Phat man says
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:11 PM
Thursday
we need Greenland for international safety and security.”


Trump has done everything within his power to destabilize international security, such as:

Announce the US is leaving Nato,
Threatening sovereign nations,
Stop helping Ukraine,
Support Russia,
Supports closing US Bases in Europe.

Trump isn't worried about International security, he is a LIAR.

Pesky1

(31 posts)
46. This smells of a usual Trump move...
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:22 PM
Thursday

There apparently is no doubt that this "president" is boiling with the wish to invade somebody. Especially a neighbor like his "overseer" is doing. But with the Signalgate event growing, there has been a watch among informed people waiting to see what nonsense thing(s) Trump would blow into a media storm with high volume (but virtually no light). There's the claim on "Truth" Social that Greenland must be taken over, rattling watchers around the world. Also the continuing belligerence toward Canada, and also the bullying claim that the Vances are coming in friendship, but too bad if something happened to your nice country.

He certainly wants to use "his" army, but this is also Vintage Trump deflection. Wait, where's that story about some meeting...wasn't there some illegal meeting or something?

Stay alert blue side, some resistance seems to be working.

sop

(13,348 posts)
49. Trump was always a fucking psychopath, now he's completely lost touch with reality.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:41 PM
Thursday

A dangerous combination.

Marcuse

(8,247 posts)
52. SLAVA GREENLAND!
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:46 PM
Thursday
This is not stopping Trump, who separately told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the U.S. “will go as far as we have to go” to get control of Greenland.


C_U_L8R

(46,820 posts)
54. I'm with Greenland.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:46 PM
Thursday

You be you and don't let this orange clown intimidate you with his threats. He has no support to go all Hitler annexing nations.

Historic NY

(38,704 posts)
56. WTF does that mean invasion sanctions/////
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:50 PM
Thursday

this man's cheese has slipped the cracker.

We already have an air force base there, its not some vacation paradise. Maybe fix up that secret Cold War base that NOAA found buried under the ice.

i

Evolve Dammit

(20,419 posts)
58. Some military people that have his ear have convinced him that this is necessary. He has no idea what he is doing beyon
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:51 PM
Thursday

LT Barclay

(2,887 posts)
118. I was just thinking about why this is an obsession and remembered that there is still a lot of pushing and shoving
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:28 AM
Friday

over Arctic boundaries. So I’m thinking that this has to do with controlling arctic resources and controlling the Northwest Passage.

Evolve Dammit

(20,419 posts)
136. yes indeed now that shipping channels can be open more or less year round. Lotsa oil too. What could go wrong?
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 11:21 AM
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generalbetrayus

(813 posts)
69. Hey, the thought just occurred to me that Orange Julius Caesar's major jonesing for Greenland
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:20 PM
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is because he thinks it is full of putting greens.

Paladin

(29,914 posts)
71. Fuck this shit.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:22 PM
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I want an end to this insanity, just as soon as possible. Democratic leadership, do your Goddamned duty.

"...we're gonna have to have it." Let me repeat myself: Fuck this shit.

GiqueCee

(2,042 posts)
74. Prezzidint Shit-For-Brains...
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:33 PM
Thursday

... can't seem to grasp the fact that all of Greenland's mineral wealth is UNDER 2 MILES OF FUCKIN' ICE! And his assertion that it's in "The National Interest" is wall-to-wall, knee-deep bullshit.

GiqueCee

(2,042 posts)
129. True...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 08:02 AM
Friday

... but probably not in our lifetimes. And I don't believe for one second that the Orange Gargoyle gives a happy rat's ass about "posterity". He cares about no one but himself. He even said, during his previous occupation of the ketchup-stained White House, that "I'm the only one that matters."

defacto7

(14,006 posts)
78. So if he thinks he needs it so badly,
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:46 PM
Thursday

what ever happened to the novel idea of working together? What's wrong with meeting them on equal ground and making a case and building camaraderie?
Oh no. Not this asshole. He has to own it, take it, fuck it, not even buy it. It's mine, mine, mine, gimme.
Jackass.

ancianita

(40,184 posts)
79. When he breaks the NATO Treaty that is the law of the land, the US Military should refuse all orders.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:47 PM
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ancianita

(40,184 posts)
88. Yep. 31 militaries against this one.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:16 PM
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This military would do well to surrender and seek "terms." Let our previously fired military leaders replace the current traitors. Then see what Muskovite and Putin would do about that.

After Signalgate one can't just assume that all this is just bluster, while this govt's tax monies, gold and other assets are stripped. There are a lot of Silicon and Heritage moving parts at work here.

Blues Heron

(6,663 posts)
80. I hate to put it this way, but we're going to have to have this guy committed to a facility for the criminally insane
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:48 PM
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louis-t

(24,114 posts)
81. Weasel words. "I don't think they're un-eager."
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:49 PM
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What the fuck does that mean? You are going to see how "un-eager" they are. Asshole. Question: Who does having Greenland defend us against? Putin? Your friends in China?

louis-t

(24,114 posts)
84. I don't think Finland or Sweden will attack us.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:53 PM
Thursday

Someone put that thought in his head and I would like to know who. He certainly didn't come up with it himself.

Norrrm

(974 posts)
87. "To Acquire Greenland", "to get control of the island"... and then what? Make them a state?
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:15 PM
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Or just a piece of property with some nuisance inhabitants?

Dubya chose Gitmo because the prisoners would supposedly not have the same legal rights as if they were actually in America.

What would be the status of the locals?

NH Ethylene

(31,066 posts)
91. People have been treating this as a joke, but someone needs to stop him (looking at you, Congress)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:25 PM
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Next thing you know he will be chatting about military plans and sending American troops up there to slaughter innocent people. He wants to be like Putin, like Netanyahu, grabbing land through vicious force.

Hekate

(96,939 posts)
113. This is incredibly apropos, that's why. I've just shared it with 3 other people. SMH
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:03 AM
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Figarosmom

(4,944 posts)
99. This is crazy.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:11 PM
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And I sure hope the military will not attack them for the purpose of taking over their country.

This is so over the top.

So who is it that he thinks we need that land to protect against? I thought he was all buddy buddy with putin. The only strategically need would be if him and puti. Decide to go after European countries. Or the resources in the Artic.

Jack Valentino

(1,701 posts)
102. We don't "have to aquire" anything. If the US needs more space for military bases on Greenland,
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 10:25 PM
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for reasons of national or international security,
surely we could negotiate to lease such space from them-- no need to take over their country!
(Unless you've been reading 'Mein Kamph' again too much lately....)

Indeed, Trump becomes more Hitler-like by the day!

What happened to 'the art of the deal', Diaper Donnie?
(well of course, that was ghostwritten. Maybe you should read that,
or get yourself a book on tape)

dobleremolque

(988 posts)
104. Naksarlugu! Taikkua maligarnik uqallaktiujut uvattinniimmata.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 10:42 PM
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Inuktut for "Bring it on! The spirit of the Code Talkers is with us."

(Ok, purists, I know it isn't Greenlandic, but Google Translate doesn't do Greenlandic. Yet.)

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
107. Americans will go as far as we have to go to defend NATO, traitor.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 11:08 PM
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Do what you're gonna do and find out.

calimary

(85,595 posts)
108. Give it up, orange shit-head.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 11:17 PM
Thursday

While you still can.

Before you do any more damage.

We’ve already lost a good friend (Canada). Who’ll be next? Great Britain? How about Europe? How much of Europe do we risk losing? How about the 5 Eyes folks?

Tourism to the U.S. will probably be WAY down this summer.

I fear we’re now on a fast track to being screwed.

HarryM

(348 posts)
124. If this isn't Borowitz
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:19 AM
Friday

It sure sounds like bullshit, or sarcasm. WTF is going on? How is he getting away with this crap? How can he expect to stay in power if he invades? Surely enough of the few sane members of Congress would step up to impeach and imprison this bass turd.
Then there are the long standing NATO implications.
It literally has me sick. Physically sick.

Doodley

(10,629 posts)
126. Trump's statement is a declaration of war. Greenland and Denmark made it clear they don't want to hand land to MAGA
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:16 AM
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BumRushDaShow

(149,758 posts)
128. But then ONLY Congress can formally "declare War"
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:42 AM
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although this -

H.J.Res.542 - Joint resolution concerning the war powers of Congress and the President.

further clarifies the role of the President with respect to engaging in hostilities. The infamous "War Powers Act" (actually "Resolution" )

Aussie105

(6,921 posts)
127. 'Go As Far As We Have To Go'
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 07:30 AM
Friday

As always, Trump-speak is vagueness personified.

It could mean if enough people say 'No way, dude!', he will get the idea and sulk, and never mention it again.
Or it could mean he is prepared to turn the whole world into a smouldering trash dump if he doesn't get his way.

In the old days, when reporters were fearless, one would ask him WTF that statement actually meant.
Alas, these days . . .

Oopsie Daisy

(5,554 posts)
137. I expect that someone will "go as far as they have to" in order to stop him.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:02 PM
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Stand by. Watch this space.

intrepidity

(8,212 posts)
140. Coming soon: "Elon! Buy me Greenland!"
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:28 PM
Friday

Maybe this will finally break those two up, if/when Elon refuses.

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