Trump's Greenland play

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Trump's Greenland play

Once again, Trump has triumphed through his customary mixture of bluster, shrewd manipulation, and sheer stubbornness.

J.R. Dunn | January 23, 2026

If we’re to believe Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance, the Greenland deal is effectively in the bag. Pres. Trump speaks of a framework arrived at with the EU that will give the U.S. much of what he was asking for. While the details remain vague, there’s no reason to doubt this. Once again, Trump has triumphed through his customary mixture of bluster, shrewd manipulation, and sheer stubbornness.

But you wouldn’t think so to look at the media, which is still caught up in near-hysteria, predictions of doom, speculations as to how long Denmark could hold out under an all-out U.S. military attack, comparisons to Hitler, and so on. Just yesterday morning, a video appeared featuring Sarah Paine, who is usually whip-smart about anything not having to do with Donald Trump. She was shaking her head over Trump’s “pivotal error” regarding Greenland, predicting it would put him in the same position as Putin. It’s as if Trump never spoke at Davos at all. And that’s just one example.

It’s funny in a sardonic kind of way, but at the same time it’s both annoying and depressing because it reveals how simple, obtuse, and sheer godforsaken dumb the elites are -- particularly the media. The fact is, today, a year into his second term, none of them seems to be able to read Donald Trump. I don’t mean to predict his actions -- that would be asking too much. I mean understanding him on the very simplest level.

Regarding Greenland, Trump came out with a blunt demand: Denmark was going to sell the island to the U.S. No ifs, ands, or buts. Then the hysteria started.

Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for five years. By this time, his methods should be transparent. When he began talking about Greenland, he wasn’t doing anything he hadn’t done before, a dozen times or more. He even wrote a book about it. People should be used to this by now. But instead, they’re acting as if he’d entered the White House last week.

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[DB]

At what cost? And I'm not talking dollars.

[DefiantMassRINO]

It's in America's interest to keep the Chi-coms out of Greenland.

Denmark/Greenland had no qualms about giving Chi-com companies access to its rare earth minerals.

Trump has the tact and decorum of a rabid wild mongoose.

[Smokin Joe]

It's in America's interest to keep the Chi-coms out of Greenland.

Denmark/Greenland had no qualms about giving Chi-com companies access to its rare earth minerals.

Trump has the tact and decorum of a rabid wild mongoose.

Chicoms have been acquiring mineral interests all over the planet for a couple of decades, now. They move in to secure those interests where they can. Sub-Saharan Africa has been on that plate for a long time now, and they have been working their way into S America, and the SW pacific archipelagos as well. One of the Aussies at Davos does huge business with the Chinese, moving iron and other ores to them, on ships owned by his company, but made in China.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump has the tact and decorum of a rabid wild mongoose.

That's what I voted for.