Donald Trump Says He Wants 'Ownership' of Greenland Because It's 'Psychologically Important for Me'
Crossposted from https://feddit.uk/post/42584616
Trump also told the Times that he isn’t opposed to using nuclear force if he “needed it” to take over the Arctic island but that “it might upset NATO," since the island is a self-governing territory of NATO member country Denmark.
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Emotional support colonialism
Is there another kind?
Seeing him hang from the neck is psychologically important to me, but I guess we can't always get what we want.
Honestly, as long as we leave him up, I'm willing to settle for any body part.
The mushroom (not that it'd take his weight)
Perhaps not, but I'd certainly tune in to watch it make a game try of it.
Mussolini comes to mind...
I'd even settle for him getting Gaddafied.
Everyone forgets the next line:
Dudes will invade greenland before they talk to a therapist
He is therapist.
I missed a space.
He is a certified psychotherapist.
*He is the rapist.
Correct.
I think the thing people didn't put together in 2016 his "grab them by the pussy" comment was about children in his beauty pageants.
understandable. i hear someone use the word pussy and my mind doesnt go right to little girls
I think between that and stormy daniels people didn't clock exactly how fucked up Trump was.
Wait, is there something especially fucked up about his affair with Stormy Daniels beyond run-of-the-mill adultery and prostitution?
Just that it was far more tame than the rest of his allegations.
No, it wasn't. It was during an interview with an Access Hollywood reporter as he was preparing for his guest appearance on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. He was joking about Arianne Zucker, an actress that he was about to meet.
Still disgusting and inexcusable language.
"Them" is clearly referring to a general attitude toward women and girls here but people clocked it as about adults for exactly the reason you mentioned but its clear in the wider context of trump he meant far more than that.
Ah, I see. I had interpreted your original comment in the narrower context of the quote, but I see what you mean.
Emotional support country
Ummm... what? Did the media just sane wash this headline? Trump is ok with nuking his way into owning Greenland and we're just all ok with that?
That's still pretty batshit for a statement that's been sane-washed.
Well, that's very reassuring
he wants to be known as the president that took greenland for the history books
What's important for him psychologically, and the whole damn world, is that he takes his meds.
Yeah, all of them.
At once.
Better take a double dose just to be sure
Lethal dose.
The tiny handed orange toddler "I WANT IT. I WANTS IT!!! WAHHHH. GIVE ME. WAHHH"
Then goes off to think about all those little children he raped with his bestie Jeffery Epstein.
Do we have any evidence that he's stopped?
Seriously, can't enact his power fantasies on children anymore so somehow he convinced a significant amount of Americans to let him abuse the world as a president instead.
Somebody ought to sit him down and explain the Mercator projection to him.
That's way too advanced for a guy who can barely read or write.
Or show him a globe map.
It would not surprise me if Trump were a flat earther, or at least pretended to be one, to gain voters.
Even without the projection distortion, Greenland is pretty big. It's more than 3 times larger than France. But it's definitely not as large as the US as it seems in the projection.
Dude, it would 100% be the end of NATO
It would 100% be the end of the world.
Using any kind nuclear force ends in a global apocalypse. Thousands or scenarios and simulations were run on this topic for the past several decades, and the result is always the same. Whoever start shooting nukes for whatever reason, it doesn’t matter at the end. There is always escalation by other parties, and most of humanity dies.
I guess everything has a silver lining.
According to Russia at least
Honestly with all the mess he's been up to now, the Epstein files seem very unlikely to have any effect on him
Maybe not on him, but there’s a bigger picture.
Would not be the first time that the USA dropped nuclear bombs on Greenland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
Although last time they covered it up and caused many workers to die later on due to nuclear exposure
Uhhh....the coverup worked. I'm 42, and this is the first I've ever heard that we nuked Greenland. I feel like that SHOULD be common knowledge, but I'm willing to bet if I ask 100 random people, 0 will think I'm telling the truth if I told them we've nuked Greenland before.
I mean, it’s not accurate to say we nuked them, as no nuclear detonation occurred. We did contaminate the area with radiation and likely harmed the Danish workers assisting in the cleanup.
The cleanup was performed by people who didn't know that these were nuclear weapons though.
Also:
I had no idea and am fairly well read. I knew we(understandably,) tried to nuke north carolins with two hydrogen bombs. They did not go off so they declared an oopsie but may have never found one.
Then portugal there was an accident, sent armed forces to clean it up with no warning or gear and they all got cancer.
It's his emotional support island.
Yeah, because the previous one is non-functional nowadays
The desolate landscape and freezing temperatures reminds him of his wife’s feelings towards him
Can someone please just teach him how to play those Paradox map games
If it doesn't scare the shit out of you that this narcissistic psychopath just casually mentions that he would like to drop nukes, then it should
We've been on the brink of nuclear annihilation multiple times but always escaped fate because there were calm cool smart heads that intervened. Those heads are gone, it's now all removed narcissists.
This asshole is just casually blabbing about burning down the entire world, and there ain't shit we can do to stop or even change this.
The two times we evaded nuclear hellfire were in the 60s and 80s. And in both those cases it was the Soviets who kept their cool and realized that it was a technical error that gave a false positive.
I don't think anyone in either government is cool enough to do that today.
Mostly, those calm cool smart heads were decidedly not the politicians.
Removed narcissists?
I emailed my senators and my rep to tell them to do fucking SOMETHING about this sabre rattling. Write up some fucking legislation saying that the US cannot invade NATO nations, at the fucking minimum.
Will they listen? Take three guesses, first two don't count.
They should tell him, it's not green and there are not many kids to moleat over there.
Honestly a little impressed he's able to use the word 'psychologically'. That's a lot of syllables.
I understand he is trying to destroy America, but this would make it nearly instant.
Nah, the US is well-accustomed to handling that sort of thing, done it dozens of times already. What is different is that now it's imperialistic violence against a purported ally, a NATO country. If he invades, this will certainly have knock-on effects later, and I hope it leads to the destruction of the US as a global power eventually - that would be at least one silver lining.
It's similar to how his admin is using the genocidal violence usually designated for poor global south countries, at home, on US citizens. Same tactics, different targets.
My psychiatrist gave me a prescription for an emotional support Greenland, legally you aren’t even allowed to ask me about it other than if it’s an emotional support Greenland, which it is.
Those Epstein files must be insane.
Why won't France and the UK state they'd nuke him back if he tried? They're NATO countries too and need to stand by in solidarity with an ally being attacked. Letting the orange Hitler do as he pleases will only embolden him to go after them later.
They probably dont want to start WW3
So like when France and England decided to do fuck all until Germany started preparing to invade France in 1940, because they didn't want to start another great war...
Spoiler alert: Munich betrayal incoming
All about ego. He has nothing else except to be the biggest bully he can be.
He's like 70% ego (10% hairspray, 10% bronzer and 10% hamberder)
So psychologically, is it important to maintain his ego.
It's a health decision
/s
let him play with a fake world map where everything is called USA
United States of America
European Union of States of America
Soviet Union of America
…
Could we mint him an NFT?
That's honestly the best reason he has given for it so far.
This might be the only true thing he's ever said.
If that even made sense, it would be even more reason to deny him it.
Someone throw some green-painted dirt on his face and tell him "Here's your greenland, now fuck off"
At least he is honest...
So, he understands the concept of a safe space... But only for him? And only if it's... a country?
It is worrying how unhinged Thiel is becoming, it does look like he is fishing with various ideas to start a cult for his own glory. Dude needs to just chill out for a bit.
Everyone gotta understand this.
Does MI6 have a plan to assassinate Trump? It would surprise me if they don't. Plan for all contingensies. But from plan to actual operation is a continental leap.
Chinese and Russian agents keep intercepting them because they wanna see him do it
Psycho for sure but totally illogical
The US already has direct colonial control over NATO. NATO is fully committed to not let Russia invade Greenland or setup oil rigs off the coast, and it is absurd to suggest that Russia or China are patrolling Greenland or have any desire to attempt to take their resources without cooperation. But the US would get NATO's help for defense of Greenland, and NATO would permit greater US contribution to NATO command bases there, or obey orders to contribute more themselves.
Trump, in addition to repeating the false China/Russia threat, has admitted zero interest in Greenland's resources. They are too far away and extremely expensive to develop. This leaves only a single possible motive for needing US control over Greenland: The absolute certainty that EU will disobey US orders for greater submission and the need to directly threaten them from closer distance. There is no offensive missile threat to Russia provided by Greenland relative to other NATO territory.