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Summary

Fox News’s attempt to find support for Donald Trump in Greenland backfired, as most residents expressed disinterest in his proposals.

While one Trump supporter was found, the majority of Greenlanders interviewed criticized Trump’s comments and expressed a preference for remaining under Danish rule.

Despite these setbacks, Trump continues to advocate for acquiring Greenland, citing economic security concerns.

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[–] JigglySackles 4 points 16 hours ago

Meanwhile Puerto Rico has been trying to get official statehood for some time now.

[–] ATDA 8 points 1 day ago

DAE LYK MURICA!?!?!?

God they're pathetic.

[–] Sam_Bass 4 points 1 day ago

If they weren't tarred and feathered it didn't go bad enough

[–] crystalmerchant 135 points 2 days ago (3 children)

STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THE GREENLAND THING

It's just a distraction from the actual harmful shit

[–] SmoothOperator 18 points 1 day ago

Threatening to invade a close NATO ally is some actual harmful shit.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The media still doesn't know how to deal with Trump. Part of it is deliberate, but a part of this is possible because he's exploiting fundamental truths about political discourse - when the US president talks about acquiring, annexing, or conquering more territory, it is actually news. There's no world in which it's not news. Even if the intent is distraction.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

The media understand Trump just fine. They also understand the money they are about to rake over the next 4 years as they publish ragebait articles one after another.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As always, Trump is just throwing shit on the wall to see is anything sticks. And everyone's freaking out. He does these things with everything, but apparently people have learned nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They would rather be part of Canada. They just gave us half of their island! Of course, we gave them half of ours, too, because it's only fair.

The funny thing is that there has not been a single casualty - unless you count all the bottles of whisky and schnapps - in this 50 year war, but we agreed we needed to call a truce because of Russian aggression. It was decided that we should resolve our internal squabbles, and we did.

After all that, it is a NATO member that's "threatening" us, not Russia.

[–] Cosmonauticus 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that there has not been a single casualty

Probably because Canada couldn't find any natives to kill

[–] Dkarma 2 points 1 day ago

Oh they killed plenty

[–] homesweethomeMrL 70 points 2 days ago (120 children)

The president-elect raved about his son’s trip on Truth Social, going as far as sharing a video of a Greenlander who praised him. That man, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted smuggler who was sentenced to four years in prison after a 2019 drug bust, DR reported.

These apparent public support setbacks have not stopped Trump from flirting with a Greenland acquisition. When asked last week if he would rule out using military force to take the territory from the longtime U.S. ally Denmark (and the Panama Canal from Panama), he refused.

“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two,” Trump responded. “But I can say this, we need them for economic security.”

Thanks for not voting, shitheads! It’s going to be insanity and horror for a long time now. But at least we showed those Dems who weren’t sufficiently obeisant to the working classes! Yay!

[–] CharlesDarwin 5 points 2 days ago

Yep. All the sanctimonious jackasses are just so full of themselves. I bet most of them are not at risk in any way.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I have to wonder, was that one “supporter” a plant. [email protected]

[–] Chip_Rat 3 points 2 days ago

Sadly, idiocy can affect anyone, regardless of race, gender, nationality, or religious beliefs.

[–] CharlesDarwin 8 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (11 children)

For the economic security of the world, the US should grant a 99 year lease to the Chinese, Hong Kong style to maintain a free port.

See how stupid it sounds? Fix yourself please, US.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Economic security concerns"

What a bullshit way of saying they have resources, and you think you should be able to steal them and get money.

[–] MothmanDelorian 28 points 2 days ago

That’s a smokescreen. Greenland houses an incredibly important NATO base that would he critical should Russia try to project force westward into Central Europe.

Just like the Panama Canal, whose sanctions are negatively impacting Russia, this is Trump doing his master’s dirty work.

[–] btaf45 4 points 2 days ago

Trump is a notorious bullshit artist. Nobody with common sense believes any of his bullshit anyway, so he should just come out and say "I want to invade and annex Greenland for the same reason Putin invaded Ukraine. Pure imperialism".

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