'Absolute Necessity': Trump Goes All In on Buying Greenland Again

[babylonsister]

Politics
‘Absolute Necessity’: Trump Goes All In on Buying Greenland Again
ISLAND SHOPPING
The president-elect caused a diplomatic firestorm during his first term when he said he wanted to purchase the territory.
Janna Brancolini
Published Dec. 23 2024 5:29AM EST
Donald Trump called U.S. control of Greenland an “absolute necessity” in a post over five years since he first floated the idea of buying the island from Denmark.


If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

President-elect Donald Trump apparently wants to make another play to take control of Greenland—an autonomous region of Denmark that by all accounts isn’t for sale—even after a disastrous attempt during his first term created a diplomatic firestorm.


Trump announced his renewed interest in Greenland at the bottom of a Truth Social post Sunday which named PayPal co-founder and former Swedish Ambassador Ken Howery as his pick for ambassador to Denmark.

After touting Howery’s credentials, Trump added: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/absolute-necessity-trump-goes-all-in-on-buying-greenland-from-denmark-again/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Just in case anyone forgot what an idiot this guy is

Here we go again.

[Think. Again.]

2. Good idea trump, focus all your attention on that...

...because everyone will laugh at you if you don't pull it off.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Hard to tell how much of this is trolling,

and how much of it is drug/dementia-induced brain rot What a fucking clown show. I still can't believe we're going to have to put up with this kind of fucking shitshow again. And, worse. Anyone who voted for this demented motherfucker, or stayed home, can go fuck themselves.

[newdeal2]

16. Lots of trolling

He is going to propose random nonsense to steal the headlines every goddamn day. Mostly to hide the sinister stuff his team is really working on.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I'm leaning more heavily toward "batshit crazy," myself.

He's being kept out of the public eye, for the most part. And, when he's wheeled out, he's spewing nonsense, and slurring his words. Not to mention that he looks like shit, and getting worse by the day in that regard. I'm thinking it's not his "sinister stuff" that they're trying to hide. It's the mental deterioration.

[Liberal In Texas]

36. This continual contriving of absurd but dangerous pronouncements

serves to keep the rubes from looking at their grocery bills or what the prices at Walmart are going to be ratcheting up to. And to forget his other promises.

I also think a lot of this is being fomented by the likes of Steven Miller, Steve Bannon or Roger Stone.

[ananda]

24. It has always been all of those, and Magats and billionaires don't care.

All billionaires want is control of money and labor, and they're getting it.

And all Magats want is freedom to hate and shoot guns.

[Blue_Tires]

55. It's an attention-whoring distraction -- Don't give it any oxygen

And folks should stop and look around for something going on that Donnie doesn't want us to pay attention to...

[GoCubsGo]

58. It's definitely attention-whoring.

Being an attention whore is his M.O., and I can't help but believe that this is mostly rote behavior from what's left of his rotting brain. I don't think he has enough brain cells left to come up with new material. But, absolutely, nobody should be giving this oxygen.

[wnylib]

4. What is his fixation on Greenland about?

What does he expect to gain from it?

[lostnfound]

6. Oil and natural gas

The place is melting fast but also major oil.

The United States Geological Survey estimated a total of 141 billion barrels of hydrocarbons (approximately 13% of the world's undiscovered oil and 30% of the undiscovered natural gas) to be held beneath Greenlandic surfaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Greenland

[wnylib]

13. Thanks. I knew it had to be connected to some sort of financial gain.

As usual, Mr. Trump sees someone smaller and more vulnerable as fair game for bullying, in this case, Denmark.

I wonder what the NATO rules are regarding one member nation acting aggressively toward aother member nation.

[yardwork]

14. Trump wants us to quit NATO.

[wnylib]

23. So then NATO will be free to unite against Mr. Trump's land grab

of Greenland. They could be doing us a favor as well as protecting Europe.

[dutch777]

53. Pricey oil and gas ...81% of the country is under the Artic ice sheet...we know how but $$$

Might think too the Greenlanders, and of the Kingdom of Denmark to which it belongs, might know that too and set prices accordingly. Guess Trump thinks he is dealing with some aborigines that don't know the value of the land and what is beneath it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The cheapest spot on the Risk board??? (nt)

[Hugin]

19. That's my guess too.

[JCMach1]

22. He played Risk once as a teen and got his a$$ whooped

Through Greenland.

[Conjuay]

10. plus tax and tariffs

[Captain Zero]

47. And documentary fees

Don't forget those.

[Nictuku]

17. In case you were wondering.... that is a sextillion

I was wondering what you would call that number, Trillions? No! It is worse:
$384,344,402,876,433,280,921,599.99

Sets of 3 zeros Past 1,000 Name Number of Zeros
1 million 6 (1,000,000)
2 billion 9 (1,000,000,000)
3 trillion 12 (1,000,000,000,000)
4 quadrillion 15 (1,000,000,000,000,000)
5 quintillion 18 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000)
6 sextillion 21 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
7 septillion 24 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
8 octillion 27 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
9 nonillion 30 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
10 decillion 33 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

[enid602]

30. Billion

Outside the US, one billion is actually a Thousand Million. Mil Millón in Latin America. This makes the US definitions of anything higher than one million unrecognized in the rest of the world.

[Disaffected]

33. Not really.

Not even in Britain (any more).

[enid602]

42. Billion

I’ve not traveled in any country where one billion is one thousand million.

[Disaffected]

43. I guess you don't get around much :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

"1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in Britain and other English-speaking countries as well."

Add Canada to the list BTW.

[Celerity]

49. In Sweden 1,000,000,000 is called en miljard, and up until the last 50 years or so, in the UK, it was called a milliard

(equalling one thousand million for both). Now in the UK a billion means the same as a US billion.

In Sweden 1,000,000,000,000 (ie a trillion in US/UK English) is called en biljon, ie one million million (en miljon miljoner).

All that said, most Swedes, due the very heavy saturation of English here, do know what a billion and a trillion mean.

[Emile]

8. Is this another form of gaslighting, to deflect

attention away from some other crimes he's committing?

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. To deflect attention - quite possible. But the technical term for this is "a dead cat"

The dead cat strategy, also known as deadcatting, is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas. The present name for the strategy has been associated with British former prime minister Boris Johnson's political strategist Lynton Crosby.

While he was mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote a column for the 3 March 2013 edition of The Telegraph in which he described the "dead cat" as a piece of Australian political strategy about what to do in a situation in which the argument is being lost and "the facts are overwhelmingly against you".

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, "Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!" In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.

Johnson employed the Australian Lynton Crosby as his campaign manager during the 2008 and 2012 London mayoral elections, leading to press speculation that he was the "Australian friend" in the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

[Scrivener7]

35. Jared just got another $1.5 billion from Qatar. So there's that.

[bluesbassman]

9. Does Bezos have it with a "Buy It Now" option on Amazon?

All of those grifters and robber barons must have stakes in the pie too. He isn’t smart enough to push crap like this on his own.

[yardwork]

15. I sense Putin's involvement.

[Attilatheblond]

28. That or a oblique admission that climate change is real and gonna make life unbearable in southern climes

He might figure it'd be a good place for another golf resort.

[yardwork]

29. It will be all wet.

Trump doesn't think that far, though.

[tanyev]

12. No, jackass, the United States of America does not feel that.

YOU feel that.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

20. He wants to own everything, but never wants to own up to his crimes.

[Jack Valentino]

21. I don't think he ran this by his boss, Elon....

[Prairie Gates]

25. Sigh

[Dave Bowman]

26. If anyone needed more proof that he's insane, there it is.

[Attilatheblond]

27. Am much less concerned about him trying to buy Greenland as I am about him trying to sell Alaska to Putin

for what we originally paid.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Just like taking Ukraine is "essential" for the defense of Russia...

[Mike Nelson]

32. Ha-ha!

... it's not for sale. BUT, considering the politics, it could add two Democratic senators!

[Scrivener7]

34. That'll definitely bring down the price of groceries. Promises kept!

Jesus, his voters are assholes.

[Polybius]

37. If it was actually for sale at a good price, I'd be all for it

But it isn't. He just wants to steal it.

[Red Mountain]

38. If you were Denmark....

you wouldn't sell, either. But what might you TRADE for Greenland?

[LPBBEAR]

39. Once he says something

no matter how ridiculous it is he continues to try and validate what he says by trying to turn it into reality.

To admit he was wrong or that the original statement was bullshit is for him admitting what a weak and pathetic excuse for a human being he is.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/k3pseeH1gkdVkTFQ9

[Hekate]

40. Dangerously insane

[LastDemocratInSC]

41. "... ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity."

Russia feels the same way about Ukraine.

[Disaffected]

44. "Extortion" seems to be a

fitting description for this kind of dumb-shittery.

[Richard D]

45. Maybe he could build mierde a gogo north

right in the middle of Greenland?

[Angleae]

46. Has anyone actually told hime that Greenland isn't actually green?

[Paladin]

50. Watch out, now---you'll endanger Iceland. (nt)

[Aussie105]

48. The Shady Tree Retirement Home

in SomewhereVille Arizanska wants to offer Trump a nice safe place to rest, along with the other terminally confused cashed up Napoleon types of the world.

No expense will be spared to make him feel at home.

He will have a 10 room suite all to himself, some rooms done up to look familiar, the Oval Office, his rooms at Mara-Largo, his penthouse in NY.
Unlimited diet coke and hambergers. Just pick up the red phone.
He will be surrounded by people who vaguely look like people he knows and trusts.
All outgoing calls will be intercepted locally and answered by voice actors.
Want Greenland and the Panama Canal to be yours? Want wars to stop? Just pick up the green phone. Consider it done!
He can wander the extensive gardens surrounded by 10 nervous looking bulky blokes wearing aviator sunnies.

Rent set at $5M per day.

An offer you can't refuse. Seriously Donald, what is not to like?

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Seriously, he has lost it.
First insane person to be sworn in next month. America, thou hast fallen so far, and the world weeps for thee!

[doc03]

51. Todays shinny object for the headlines. What will be next buy Antartica? He may

think we own it already or we could just invade it. We can also claim the moon.

[Irish_Dem]

52. Are we invading or buying Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama?

I am confused about this point.

[zorbasd]

54. So, is the self named peacenick, going to order the

Secretary of Defense, Rapey, to invade and occupy Greenland and Panama. I think he will try to unleash an invasion against both countries to steal. He'll also unleash rocket attacks on suspected Mexican cartel locations.

[Diamond_Dog]

56. Four years of this utter insanity ahead .....

Makes me want to jump out a window!

[Evolve Dammit]

57. What a fucking asshole. But you knew that...

[Marthe48]

59. In other news, putin claims Alaska

He doesn't see it as part of the U.S.A. and says it is vital to russia to possess that area of the world

Maybe I shouldn't give the maniacs ideas.

[peggysue2]

60. This is pure greed on the part of Trump and his billionaire buddies

Greenland is resource-rich in minerals, oil and gas. Trump and his MAGAloons have decided Manifest Destiny is a thing they can bring back and ride all the way to the bank.

We're going to end up in an ugly war.