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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 dont succeed, try, try again.
President-elect Donald Trump apparently wants to make another play to take control of Greenlandan autonomous region of Denmark that by all accounts isnt for saleeven 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 Howerys 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
(45,764 posts)Here we go again.
Think. Again.
(19,040 posts)...because everyone will laugh at you if you don't pull it off.
GoCubsGo
(33,158 posts)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
(1,135 posts)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
(33,158 posts)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
(14,625 posts)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
(30,931 posts)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
(56,725 posts)And folks should stop and look around for something going on that Donnie doesn't want us to pay attention to...
GoCubsGo
(33,158 posts)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
(24,758 posts)What does he expect to gain from it?
lostnfound
(16,714 posts)The place is melting fast but also major oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Greenland
wnylib
(24,758 posts)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
(64,735 posts)wnylib
(24,758 posts)of Greenland. They could be doing us a favor as well as protecting Europe.
dutch777
(3,585 posts)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
(102,693 posts)Hugin
(34,745 posts)JCMach1
(28,135 posts)Through Greenland.
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Conjuay
(2,173 posts)Captain Zero
(7,576 posts)Don't forget those.
Nictuku
(3,913 posts)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)
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
(5,173 posts)Not even in Britain (any more).
enid602
(9,086 posts)Ive not traveled in any country where one billion is one thousand million.
Disaffected
(5,173 posts)"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
(46,862 posts)(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
(30,780 posts)attention away from some other crimes he's committing?
muriel_volestrangler
(102,693 posts)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, theres 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
(53,186 posts)bluesbassman
(19,902 posts)All of those grifters and robber barons must have stakes in the pie too. He isnt smart enough to push crap like this on his own.
yardwork
(64,735 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,545 posts)He might figure it'd be a good place for another golf resort.
yardwork
(64,735 posts)Trump doesn't think that far, though.
tanyev
(44,733 posts)YOU feel that.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(285 posts)Jack Valentino
(1,510 posts)Prairie Gates
(3,568 posts)Dave Bowman
(3,857 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,545 posts)for what we originally paid.
Wounded Bear
(60,840 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,365 posts)... it's not for sale. BUT, considering the politics, it could add two Democratic senators!
Scrivener7
(53,186 posts)Jesus, his voters are assholes.
Polybius
(18,354 posts)But it isn't. He just wants to steal it.
Red Mountain
(1,928 posts)you wouldn't sell, either. But what might you TRADE for Greenland?
LPBBEAR
(390 posts)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
(95,281 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,862 posts)Russia feels the same way about Ukraine.
Disaffected
(5,173 posts)fitting description for this kind of dumb-shittery.
Richard D
(9,435 posts)right in the middle of Greenland?
Angleae
(4,657 posts)Paladin
(28,973 posts)Aussie105
(6,467 posts)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
(36,954 posts)think we own it already or we could just invade it. We can also claim the moon.
Irish_Dem
(59,687 posts)I am confused about this point.
zorbasd
(260 posts)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
(35,159 posts)Makes me want to jump out a window!
Evolve Dammit
(19,056 posts)Marthe48
(19,321 posts)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
(11,515 posts)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.