Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41391186
Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.
The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
He is madman
He's a mad fool being steered by evil madmen like Stephen Miller.
Two things can be true
It's mad men all the way down.
Oops! All shit heads!
Don Draper would never.
PeeWee Himmler
Theoden and Grima Wormtongue
Theoden and Grima Wormtongue
wormtongue would be jd vance, and thiel ironically has palintir to control wormtongue over with.
Vance probably has no power what so ever, it's most likely Stephen Miller in Trump's ear.
No fucking thanks to Putin and Roy Cohn.
So quick question, why allow them to keep their military base? They're clearly hostile, time to pack up and leave.
Either Europe's politicians are still deluding themselves that the USA could be an ally against Russia, or it's a case of no one wanting to move first and be the first the USA targets for economic and social destruction.
Which is the point of a united Europe. They should work together.
But will they?
When tariffs came in, I was hopeful they realised, finally, that they were dealing with a madman. However, they still negotiate as if he's a rational actor. Express concern etc. Just like the Dems in the USA. He pays no heed to their comments or concerns. He only responds to power.
Tariff the shit out of USA tech. Stop buying USA weapons. Start allowing Ukraine to attack inside Russia. Cut off their supply of precious metals by working with Australia and Denmark (Greenland).
Show them you mean business by reducing tariffs on china in return for Chinese concessions. Start really penalisong any European or American companies that still do business in Russia.
Its mind boggling that they are doing practically nothing concrete.
And sell off US Treasury bonds. Put the willies up the money people.
I'd be looking at their recent declaration about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Cut them where it hurts his chances in the mod terms. Affordability all the way. He's very much a let them eat cake kind of guy. But with big Macs.
EU politicians did switch to a "don't feed the troll" stance on Trump. Flattery backfires because he sees that as weak. Taking sudden action works as a provocation in him. Best case they're waiting him out and preparing quietly in the background.
If Europe had fought Russia over the Ukraine, this wouldn't be on the table. It's clear to the world Europe won't fight, even to defend their own backyard, so here we are.
To be clear, I fucking hate it. I have been screaming for Europe to fight back since day one, all while it was clear America was half-assing the fight. But they didn't, the fascists gauged the reaction, now they feel free to strike.
Yeah, i never thought of that. All EU countries should expel the US troops and seize the bases and hardware
(now Rammstein is playing in my head...)
Which track? I've had "Amerika" on repeat in my sad brain for a while now.
i was thinking of ramstein air base, and "du hast" popped into my head
Aside from the fact he wears that suit about as well as a toddler posing for a holiday photo, he is LITERALLY wearing a lapel pin of HIMSELF. Jesusfuckingchrist.jpg
he wears the suit like that to hide his neck vagina. its likes he strangling his neck with the tie.
The important thing about Greenland is that less than 1% of the Epstein files were released by the deadline.
I consider this trope to be cover for Trump. Evil people are perfectly capable of multiple evils.
It's the only way to remind conservatives.
Conservatives aren't reading these comments
Why would they need to? We're so busy dead-catting each other.
I'm adding 'danish intelligence releases Epstein files' to my bingo card. The rest of it is all bullshit anyway.
Fuckin hell, this guy
“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said at the White House.
The Art of the Deal: shoot them and take all their stuff.
Art of the steal
Art of the kill
Many have outlined Trump's mafia-style speech. Like the truly wealthy, the mafia is a group he admires, was never allowed into, wants to imitate.
It's so clear I want to scream. The US watched the man make a fool of himself in the 80s and 90s, he was tabloid trash. Even The Apprentice made fun of his bombastic nature, but apparently neither Trump not his fans were in on the joke.
Unlike ICE, the mafia has recruiting standards.
How many children in the 1980s were acutely aware of Trump? I imagine very few. You're talking about people who were in their twenties and older in the 1980s. And if you were 25 in 1984, you were 65 in 2024. A lot of the electorate is simply too young to remember Trump in his 1980s incarnation. And while older voters do vote at higher rates, the difference is massively overblown.
You just described me. I've known he was an insufferable putz since the 80s. By the 90s, I was seeing articles in the NY Times about money laundering for the Russian Mob. I was shocked they'd give him a reality show, but that's bar is extremely low.
Looking back from the perspective of a Millennial or younger, I realize that the first time they really saw him was when Mark Burnett decided to polish his image on The Apprentice, and make him campaign ready. They only saw a carefully crafted hologram of him, and his re-brand worked.
I've had people tell me that I'm stupid for not knowing that Trump has always been the "King of NYC," and they still LOVE him there. I laugh whenever I hear that, because I'm a New Yorker-in-law, and I've been visiting and living in NYC for decades, and I know first hand that NYers despise him intensely. I've never heard a real New Yorker say anything good about him. New Yorkers have ALWAYS had a special, deeply-rooted hatred for him.
He was a showman in The Apprentice, isn't that enough to disqualify him as the unserious, self-centered and money hungry person he is? Nvm rapey, pedo, racist, etc etc. America is just a country of stupid lost souls, that's all.
He's just saying out loud what has been American policy since the day pilgrims landed, man.
"I'm gonna make ya an offah ya can't refuse"
The dude with 34 sexual assault convictions does not adhere to consent. Color me shocked!
This is true. Look up Donald Trump Rule 34 for more info.
Spoken like a true rapist.
Can you imagine the outrage if Biden said the things Trump has over the past, say, 72 hours?
They would've eaten Biden alive for saying virtually anything trump has said.
Evil piece of shit from evil piece of shit country says evil piece of shit thing that pushes the rest of the world to global destruction.
You're not wrong but that message needs to come from the leaders of the EU. The fact that it isn't says as much about your leaders as what you're saying does about the US.
The EU is a mob boss' wife (except we also have blood on our hands, we take part of American excursions cause we're team West), European countries are just vassal states and our so-called leaders are shameless whores. I know, I live here, shit's sad. And, while we aren't as culturally primed to worship violence, there are still too many "MAGAs" (white supremacists) over here still.
You can't just keep invading countries to distract from being a massive kiddy fiddler
At this point the Epstein files are a distraction from all the fascism.
Makes one wonder how much they planned this out. The Epstein files could picture Trump balls deep in a 13-yo girl, nothing would happen.
The fascists have larger goals in mind. They're speed running WWII, trying to avoid the Nazi's mistakes, so good so far. But like the Nazis, giddy over the lack of internal or external resistance, they're biting off more than then can chew, way too fast. Cheap gasoline at the pumps only goes so far. They're not energizing the whole economy like the Nazis did, people aren't feeling it.
No idea what comes next. But the American Empire is over. Our economy is just too large to fall over quickly. But AI gives us hope! (Of crashing...) The Buffett Index is higher than either during the Great Depression or the 2008 recession. We have 200%+ more fake money in the stock market than our GDP. The cost will be staggering.
Can all y'all grow potatoes? I can, but I'm not very good at it.
Trump and his administration deserve to be kirked.
Maybe Europe needs to consider bombing Trump
Abduct him and put him on trial in a European country. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Please do it, and put out international warrants for his henchmen, especially PeeWee Himmler. They'll never be able to leave America again. They can spend all their vacations at Dollywood.
Please don't hit DC or anywhere else really. DC especially is super cool and voted like 95% against him.
He spends more time at Mar a Lago anyways
yeah Florida is completely fine, like... yall can take the whole state if you want
I mean D.C. Doesn't even have representatives in the union though, right?
Yeah they've already got a shit situation, don't make it worse for them. There have been more and more serious talks about moving the actual federal district to only a few blocks around the Capitol and White House buildings, and for DC to be absorbed into MD or VA, but no one seems to be happy about it. It has more people than 2 other states, yet has no Senators or Reps.
If they had any balls at all, potential Democratic hopefuls for 2028 should be announcing now,
"If Trump takes Greenland or any other country's land, I'll give it back immediately if elected."
That's not really what happens, from what I've observed. I think once a policy has been woven into action, it's difficult to unpick all of the new dependencies and go backwards without wasting a tremendous amount pf resources. Most of what Trump has been doing is probably here to stay. The Democrats are super neutral on everything. there's almost nobody pushing to the left.
The US has given up captured territories before. Including the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Cuba, and others.
Panama Canal
Hong Kong
Germany
All the Soviet Iron Curtain countries
Afghanistan
Lots of nuances, nothing is a black & white perfect analogy
Trumps whole thing is throwing grenades and leaving others to deal with a fallout. No matter what happens with Greenland he's irreprably damaged the USs alliances everywhere. The possibility the US is fickle enough to invade an ally and then undo it in 4 years is insane. Any successor to trump that wants to backtrack needs to sort out the rampant unchecked power of the office, not to mention the lack of accountability at so many levels of the government.
if people had any balls at all, they would abandon the traitorous democratic party
Edgy
I propose a Superman party, where we save chipmunks, and drop dictators on cacti.
This is what makes Putin very happy despite losses in Ukraine and some Russian domestic uncertainty.
He really wants to achieve the impossible, to distinguish himself from Brezhnev: defeat the West without even firing a shot.
I’m doing the leonardo di caprio pointing meme thing rn in agreement with this comment.
Also, they're actually advancing in Ukraine.
Oh, so that's his morality.
The high cholesterol in Donny needs to do something about him whether he likes it or not.
The universe sure is taking its sweet ol' time keeping him here against our will...
I know right? The one thing that makes me upset is that both of his parents were not in great health and they both lived to be almost 100. While I don’t think Donny will make it to 100 there is always that small possibility.
I swear, if we have 20 more years of this crap--
I don't even care if he's not the president of the United States anymore because he still would be bothering me (and I'm not even American). I just want to never hear from him again. I want him to shut up and be as far away from the public eye as possible.
you can tell within the last few months he has been low on energy and he looks even more like hell. My grandmother passed away in 2008 from a series of multiple strokes with each one she became more and more slower than her brain slowly turned to mush, and she was unable to form a sentence and when she did, she was in her own little world. I see the same thing happening with Trump. Hopefully he is not much time left for him in this world. We can only hope.
If god was real, he would have granted the prayers of billions of people around the world all praying for tge same thing.
The West doesn't believe in God, and if we did, we wouldn't be as corrupt and immoral to collectively put men like Trump and every single one of his also bloodthirsty predecessors in power. Trump is nothing but the naked, shameless truth of the American empire and maybe the West at large. Also, he's just a sign of the times not the one responsible for it (end of American hegemony, transition of power into the hands of oligarchs/anational groups of interest) and, as such, part of the world is more than okay with it. Don't you think every victim of America would rather they focus their violence on their own citizens instead of the rest of the world as usual? 🤷
Rapist says what?
Can we just get to the nuclear apocalypse already? I’m so fucking tired.
Asshole
The US already has a military base there. Fuck off
I don’t wanna start any drama or anything, but here’s my .02. I can see this thing going completely sideways.
When you're famous they let you do it?
He really doesn't want those Epstein files to come out, that say he raped a bunch of little girls. He really, really doesn't want them out. Someone better leak them if they care about world order.
Can they go there and like die or something
He's just doing Putin shit at this point. he's trying to set up his legacy before he leaves office and shits his pants
he has to parrot putins point of "geopolitics" otherwise the PEE TAPES COME OUT.
Do you want to get coalitioned? Because this is how you get coalitioned
By whom though?
I can't see Australia joining in a fight against USA when China is an ever present issue and they're our only hope if China decides they'd rather have Australia.
Similarly, I can't see UK actually joining a military action against USA.
I can't see South America going to bat for European insterests, even if it's against USA, similar for Africa.
Middle East will watch laughing.
Which really leaves mainland Europe, which will probably splinter along the lines of whether Germany or France gets to be the leader of the Coalition.
Mainland Europe stood aside as Putin invaded their backyard. This inaction was not lost on the American fascists. See where we're at today?
(And I am not excusing America's lack of action, but FFS, we can't do it ALL. And certainly can't now...)
Well difficult to answer, an invasion of Denmark (pretty much what this would be) would change a lot and wouldn’t be the end of it. My money would be on Germany and France too, with UK being a deciding factor.
You did forget the newly militarized Japan in your analysis but yes that sphere would be too concerned with their own stuff.
Nasty Guy.
"we are going to do something about greenlind like or not, to distract from the epstein files naming me too many times as a sex pervert"- whats trump really saying.