President has claimed the US needs to acquire Greenland for national security purposes — a move that European allies see as a threat to the Arctic island’s sovereignty

President Donald Trump has predicted that Greenland will be under U.S. control by the time he leaves office in January 2029.

Trump has fiercely pushed to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic since before he returned to the Oval Office. The globally unpopular move has helped strain America’s relationship with its European allies, who see it as a threat to Greenlanders’ sovereignty.

Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”

Like fuck it will

  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I am not even sure all of the continental US will be under his operational control by the time he leaves office.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    How are these not threats of violence?

    If a random country’s ruler said, “We will take Utah by 2029”, America would have kidnapped the entire family and killed a few hundred people in the process.

    • kingofras@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There’s a silver lining in it though. If some act of violence by god, or some unhappy trump supporter causes him to technically never leave office, then this will be among the Chief Pedophile’s best aged proclaims.

      • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        No zombies. Dead means left office. There is a succession plan in place, which is the “no zombie” clause.

  • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The EU really needs to actively, and covertly, fund secession movements within the USA. Do to them what they have been doing for decades around the world, and are actively trying to do to us right now.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ve heard “he’s right on the verge of dying” for 10 years. Same with Putin. I’m not holding my breath. He won’t go on his own, he needs a helping mob with a bit of rope.

      • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I think Theil will help. With his grooming of JD all the way to the office of VP and his weird obsession with the antichrist, it would be fitting.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      NATO has always been first and foremost a tool for US control, it didn’t really matter when the children were fighting because the US could just tell them to cut it out, but now the parent is bullying the kids and the kids are wondering what the point of this arrangement even is.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”

    “You’ll be right. They want to do something,” Trump said. “Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from their standpoint…You should make that bet.”

    I honestly try my best not to listen to Trump speak because it seems to hurt my brain and be bad for my soul, so maybe I’m just misinformed here, but I’m surprised that Trump would even acknowledge that he’ll be leaving office.

  • unpossum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m not entirely sure all of the current US will be under federal control by the time he leaves office…

    Edit: thanks to DoctorNope for demonstrating that I’ve never had an original thought

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The US isn’t under his control during his time in office. The man can’t even win a war he started with the biggest military in history. If there was a wet paper bag in the room he would be found within it and lost.