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

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    105·
    3 days 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
      131·
      3 days 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
        3·
        3 days ago

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

  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    3 days ago

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

  • unpossum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    47·
    3 days 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

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    this is great news!

    it means he’s planning on leaving office!

    🤔 then again…he never delivers on his promises, so does that mean he’s expecting to never take control of Greenland and thus never leave office?

    silver lining, moving to Greenland will be a win/win.

  • cristigyk@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    trump just doesn’t understand the notion of “NO”. no wonder he’s accused of being a rapist.

    • TransNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Trump was never told NO when he was growing up. every time he asked mommy and daddy to let him rape people… they said “yes my darling little orange turd”. and he lapped it up.

  • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    353·
    3 days 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.

        • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          No matter how delusional you think he is, him and his cronies hold one of the most powerful offices on the planet (until they wreck that too I guess).

    • TransNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      watch… he will sign an executive order declaring that his moldering corpse is required to be put on display in the White House Oval Office for eternity.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      2 days 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.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    The only thing that will happen for sure is that he will shit himself every day.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    14·
    3 days 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.