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BumRushDaShow

(165,662 posts)
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 06:50 AM Mar 2025

Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out

Source: USA Today

Published 8:53 p.m. ET March 29, 2025 | Updated 10:16 p.m. ET March 29, 2025


WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump refused on Saturday to take military force off the table in his quest to acquire Greenland, saying he had an obligation to pursue ownership of the Danish territory that has rebuffed his advances. A day after members of his administration, including Vice President JD Vance, visited a U.S. military installation there, Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said he'd "absolutely" had conversations about annexing Greenland. “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said, according to the news outlet.

Vance heaped criticism on Denmark during his Friday visit, accusing the country of lagging on security and leaving Greenland open to invasion from Russia and China. He encouraged the people of Greenland to break away from Denmark to create space for the U.S. to have a conversation with the territory about acquiring it.

He told reporters after that he was not signaling a change in the administration's policy. Rather, he said, he was emphasizing that Trump does not believe military force is needed for the U.S. to takeover Greenland. "We do not think that military force is ever going to be necessary," Vance said at Pituffik Space Base.

Asked about the comments during the NBC interview, Trump recommitted to taking control of the island but said there's a "good possibility" that the U.S. can do it without the assistance of the military. "No, I never take military force off the table. But I think there's a good possibility that we could do it without military force," Trump said. "We have an obligation to protect the world.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/29/trump-greenland-military-force-denmark/82722287007/



Lebensraum.

(a term that my history/poly-sci major mother used to bring up a lot in reference to WW2)
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Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 OP
Backfiring.... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #1
Every article that discusses this should be including Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #2
Lebensraum MayReasonRule Mar 2025 #3
👍🏼 IrishAfricanAmerican Mar 2025 #13
Putin says so. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #4
An "obligation"... GiqueCee Mar 2025 #5
The never punished convicted felon has been told by his Fascist 'tekbrozz' ... Justice matters. Mar 2025 #28
He's talking about war with NATO Mysterian Mar 2025 #6
The magnitude... GiqueCee Mar 2025 #8
He's threatening a peaceful sovereign nation in OUR name. It's a distraction from the billionaire oligarchy Timeflyer Mar 2025 #7
Rabid dogs are put down. Conjuay Mar 2025 #9
Somewhere . . . AverageOldGuy Mar 2025 #10
Perhaps if he mounted a horse and lead the multigraincracker Mar 2025 #11
The Golf Cart Brigade! BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #12
That great American Al Capone took over the North Side. Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #14
Here also ended up spending some time here in Philly for awhile at a charming place BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #17
A military shooting war, to "get Greenland"? Paladin Mar 2025 #15
Which no does he not understand....... Butterflylady Mar 2025 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author mdbl Mar 2025 #18
I feel like if he does that I will have to get out of here!!!! Hope22 Mar 2025 #19
That sounds like something Putin would do but then blame it on Greenland. Wait for it. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #20
If people die, and infrastructure topples, Bayard Mar 2025 #21
So, is he "Manifesting" with all these. . . Collimator Mar 2025 #22
We'll Get Trump! Escape Mar 2025 #23
Two things. 1) this is insane. 2) we cannot let this happen LymphocyteLover Mar 2025 #24
There's too many of our own dips--t people like Fetterman and Gillebrand who really wont fight him or be outraged. Flash953 Mar 2025 #25
If Trump invades Greenland, I'm going back to the UK VMA131Marine Mar 2025 #26
"...shut down trade with the U.S." ? thought crime Mar 2025 #27

Lovie777

(21,717 posts)
1. Backfiring....
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 06:55 AM
Mar 2025

shithole musk republicans have lost their minds all for their greed and gawd.

Scrivener7

(58,277 posts)
2. Every article that discusses this should be including
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 07:08 AM
Mar 2025

the fact that 70% of Americans strongly oppose this, as do all Greenlanders. Which makes the notion an indicator that he has lost his mind.

MayReasonRule

(4,011 posts)
3. Lebensraum
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 07:16 AM
Mar 2025

Lebensraum is a German concept of expansionism and Völkisch nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s.

GiqueCee

(3,400 posts)
5. An "obligation"...
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 07:35 AM
Mar 2025

... you evil fuck?!!? There is NO sane or rational reason for the US to pursue your wet fever-dream of taking Greenland by force. You just wanna be like Daddy when you grow up. Putin invades neighbors to rob their resources, so little Donnie's gonna impose his will on every neighbor he can find on the map. His geographic ignorance will be the savior for some.
Mineral wealth almost certainly eclipses "national security" as a prime motivating factor for Trump's huffing and puffing, but his belligerent stupidity refuses to acknowledge the fact that Greenland's mineral wealth lies UNDER TWO MILES OF ICE!
As the comic, Ron White, so sagely observed, you can't fix stupid.

Justice matters.

(9,382 posts)
28. The never punished convicted felon has been told by his Fascist 'tekbrozz' ...
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 05:32 PM
Mar 2025

that the ice will melt with his 'drill baby drill' stupidity and when that happens, they will just take the rare-earth resources for close to nothing in terms of royalties.

They didn't bother to tell him that, Merde-a-Largo will be underwater when that happens, but he thinks he will live in his criminal Gaza-strip tower penthouse then...

GiqueCee

(3,400 posts)
8. The magnitude...
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:12 AM
Mar 2025

... of Trump's stupidity can only be measured in astronomical terms. As for those who still support him, the generally accepted unit of measure for their level of intelligence can be found in barnyards across the nation.

Timeflyer

(3,674 posts)
7. He's threatening a peaceful sovereign nation in OUR name. It's a distraction from the billionaire oligarchy
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:09 AM
Mar 2025

he's engineering here, but what a POS he is.

AverageOldGuy

(3,331 posts)
10. Somewhere . . .
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:27 AM
Mar 2025

I have to believe that among the thousands of fired federal workers, there are some who:
-- are on the edge and losing the job means losing their house, pulling kids out of college, and the like
-- own firearms and are very good at their use
-- and among those there is one or two or three who will be desperate enough, who will plan carefully, and who are accurate enough . . . .

multigraincracker

(36,942 posts)
11. Perhaps if he mounted a horse and lead the
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:34 AM
Mar 2025

charge across the froze tundra swing a sword and taking bullets himself.

Kid Berwyn

(22,890 posts)
14. That great American Al Capone took over the North Side.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:58 AM
Mar 2025

And vacationed in Florida, too — co-incidentally, of course, I’m sure.

BumRushDaShow

(165,662 posts)
17. Here also ended up spending some time here in Philly for awhile at a charming place
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 09:37 AM
Mar 2025

Erin Davis, courtesy of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site



Erin Davis, courtesy of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/al-capones-philadelphia-prison-cell-complete-roommates-cot-opens-public-180972105/






Paladin

(32,267 posts)
15. A military shooting war, to "get Greenland"?
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 09:09 AM
Mar 2025
Absolutely not---no way, no how. Not even if the U.S. invading force were to consist entirely of trump supporters---and the children of trump supporters.

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Hope22

(4,467 posts)
19. I feel like if he does that I will have to get out of here!!!!
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:15 AM
Mar 2025

And then I think…where is safe from this #&ck face! I can’t imagine that not even one group of people in this country would stop this-ing madman. It’s More than a person can take!!!

Collimator

(2,079 posts)
22. So, is he "Manifesting" with all these. . .
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:12 AM
Mar 2025

. . . "It will happen" statements?

He needs to go back to "Build the wall and Mexico will pay for it".

Despite all the hard that he has and can do, he can't bend reality just by making repeated forthright statements.

Flash953

(136 posts)
25. There's too many of our own dips--t people like Fetterman and Gillebrand who really wont fight him or be outraged.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 12:56 PM
Mar 2025

I know Opinions are like you know what but I just can't help the us Democrats really have crappy leadership to even fight this.

VMA131Marine

(5,168 posts)
26. If Trump invades Greenland, I'm going back to the UK
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:16 PM
Mar 2025

I’m a dual citizen and working on getting my UK passport as we speak.

It would be a global economic catastrophe as almost every country will shut down trade with the U.S.

thought crime

(1,193 posts)
27. "...shut down trade with the U.S." ?
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:01 PM
Mar 2025

Unfortunately, most countries are not in a position to avoid trade with the US. They could try a little harder though.

When Trump made threats to take Greenland two months ago, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb met with Demark’s Prime Minister along with leaders of Sweden and Norway to show solidarity. Stubb just met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to play a round of golf and offer to build Polar Icebreakers for the US.
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