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.

FakeNoose
(37,022 posts)Is that far enough?
DENVERPOPS
(11,568 posts)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........
BaronChocula
(2,619 posts)Moostache
(10,391 posts)DENVERPOPS
(11,568 posts)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.....
alimbalt
(23 posts)... conclusion?
Trueblue1968
(18,433 posts)ruet
(10,102 posts)
PSPS
(14,410 posts)FakeNoose
(37,022 posts)


erronis
(18,617 posts)GreenWave
(10,844 posts)brush
(59,396 posts)FakeNoose
(37,022 posts)

Love it! and I'll bet you that he will make sure that there is a beautiful woman behind every tree!
RazorbackExpat
(402 posts)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)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)The union should have been much more viciously harsh during reconstruction.
BattleRow
(1,537 posts)OnionPatch
(6,268 posts)😄😂
Because it is bigger than Ukraine to show up Putin.
calimary
(85,595 posts)“he wants.”
wcmagumba
(3,736 posts)If blob man orders an invasion of Greenland NATO (sans US) should repel rump's goons...
mdbl
(6,017 posts)Hope22
(3,789 posts)mdbl
(6,017 posts)It wouldn't take much for Greenland to show them the ocean.
Bayard
(24,607 posts)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.
ananda
(31,401 posts)Period
BidenRocks
(1,242 posts)who would sabotage unamerican actions against friendlies.
My country right or wrong, is crap!
harun
(11,370 posts)thought crime
(43 posts)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?
mountain grammy
(27,631 posts)
VMA131Marine
(4,917 posts)Equals $450 billion!
That’s almost real money …
But they better ask for cash not T-bills!
BadgerMom
(3,159 posts)Justice matters.
(8,196 posts)and all Greenlanders know it (better than 77 million American voters who voted against their own self interests).
EarlG
(22,811 posts)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:
* 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)will consider any impending action on Greenland, by Trump, as a line in the sand......
Cha
(309,082 posts)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)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.
Baitball Blogger
(49,611 posts)Servicemen are sacrificed over this,
Scrivener7
(54,918 posts)maxsolomon
(36,145 posts)They're going to have him added to Mt. Rushmore.
LiberalArkie
(17,747 posts)Captain Zero
(7,776 posts)Be a base for his evil intents on Canada.
Sad to say.
Elbows up.
Martin Eden
(14,056 posts)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)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)I curse Bush and Cheney, who belong in prison for war crimes.
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SharonAnn
(13,999 posts)thought crime
(43 posts)Every tech bro will want a retirement bunker in Greenland.
dem4decades
(12,523 posts)artemisia1
(960 posts)twodogsbarking
(13,115 posts)Torchlight
(4,434 posts)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)Apparently Make America Go Away hats are selling well. I believe we just got the Goodbye Look.
riversedge
(74,692 posts)I did a quick chin up motion and said aloud. OMG!!
Chi67
(1,153 posts)...WW3. The same if Trump ever tries to invade Canada.
thomski64
(644 posts)..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)TO HIM PERSONALLY!!!!! Vlad's got the goods on TSF. That's for certain.
Polybius
(19,599 posts)No one's gonna jump in and risk annihilation if we attack Greenland.
MuseRider
(34,537 posts)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.
tanyev
(45,871 posts)
MuseRider
(34,537 posts)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)thomski64
(644 posts)Is to distract from his disastrous failure as a human being..
See we're all talking about him...
erronis
(18,617 posts)Don1
(1,663 posts)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.
EarnestPutz
(2,843 posts)orleans
(35,817 posts)absolutely 25th amendment time
Amaryllis
(10,187 posts)txwhitedove
(4,094 posts)We weren't fighting with the rest of the world until Donald took office.
🫣
wcmagumba
(3,736 posts)
flashman13
(1,099 posts)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)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.
heckles65
(621 posts)does it have the words "Thou Shalt Not Steal"?
Uncle Joe
(61,205 posts)Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow
Midnight Writer
(23,594 posts)Angrboda
(2 posts)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.
NH Ethylene
(31,066 posts)moonshinegnomie
(3,239 posts)close the us space base there.
Karasu
(842 posts)moonshinegnomie
(3,239 posts)send him to a maximum security prison in some place like iran....
Karasu
(842 posts)they aren't just refusing to allow entry, which they can very easily do.
Polybius
(19,599 posts)It would give him the perfect excuse to attack.
coprolite
(364 posts)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.
niyad
(122,937 posts)Pesky1
(31 posts)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.
PortTack
(35,447 posts)sop
(13,348 posts)A dangerous combination.
Marcuse
(8,247 posts)
C_U_L8R
(46,820 posts)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.
AllyCat
(17,671 posts)Historic NY
(38,704 posts)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)Karasu
(842 posts)LT Barclay
(2,887 posts)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)
KatyaR
(3,585 posts)It'll be the start of World War III.
GreenWave
(10,844 posts)generalbetrayus
(813 posts)is because he thinks it is full of putting greens.
Paladin
(29,914 posts)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)... 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.
Marcuse
(8,247 posts)... 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."
stillcool
(33,470 posts)resource they have that is used in electric cars.
defacto7
(14,006 posts)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)Marcuse
(8,247 posts)ancianita
(40,184 posts)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.
Karasu
(842 posts)Blues Heron
(6,663 posts)WheelWalker
(9,318 posts)louis-t
(24,114 posts)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?
BumRushDaShow
(149,758 posts)
louis-t
(24,114 posts)Someone put that thought in his head and I would like to know who. He certainly didn't come up with it himself.
Hekate
(96,939 posts)Doesn't it?
Norrrm
(974 posts)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)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.
Marthe48
(20,352 posts)Hekate
(96,939 posts)Figarosmom
(4,944 posts)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)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)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)Do what you're gonna do and find out.
calimary
(85,595 posts)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.
Initech
(104,372 posts)
Hekate
(96,939 posts)
IronLionZion
(48,219 posts)What's it going to take to stop this idiocy?
Ford_Prefect
(8,309 posts)HarryM
(348 posts)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)BumRushDaShow
(149,758 posts)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)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 . . .
no_hypocrisy
(50,896 posts)travelingthrulife
(1,911 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(5,554 posts)Stand by. Watch this space.
Bengus81
(8,451 posts)intrepidity
(8,212 posts)Maybe this will finally break those two up, if/when Elon refuses.