The Greenland officals visit to the US White House did NOTHING…..
Does ANYBODY REALLY think Donald is gonna ‘get’ Greenland?
US Troop’s fighting Denmark and NATO troops?
“We still have a fundamental disagreement… We didn’t manage to change the American position.”
— Danish diplomat Lars Lokke Rasmussen, quoted by the Washington Post, after meeting with Vice President JD Vance about Greenland….
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The Atlantic: “Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security.”
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A new Quinnipiac poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans — 86 percent — oppose the United States trying to take Greenland by military force, while just 9 percent support it.
A smaller majority — 55 percent — oppose the United States trying to buy Greenland, while 37 percent support it.
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President Trump said early Wednesday that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be “unacceptable,” claiming “it is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,” The Hill reports.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports Vice President JD Vance “will host a closed-door meeting with the Arctic island’s key stakeholders that some Europeans fear could further worsen a transatlantic divide that threatens to tear apart the NATO alliance.”
“Diplomats from Denmark and Greenland, a self-governing territory that remains part of the Danish realm, requested the meeting not with Vance but with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”
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The U.S. could have to pay as much as $700 billion if it were to achieve President Trump’s goal of buying Greenland, NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “I’d love to make a deal with them. It’s easier. But one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”
NewsNation: Vance and Rubio to meet with Danish officials as Trump eyes Greenland.
USA Today: How fast could the U.S. acquire Greenland?
Ronald Lauder and Trump’s Greenland ambitions:
One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”
It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory.
The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder. Heir to a makeup fortune – the global cosmetics brand Estée Lauder – he had known Trump, a fellow wealthy New Yorker, for more than 60 years.
Bolton said he discussed the Greenland proposition with Lauder. After the billionaire’s intervention, a White House team began to explore ways to increase US sway in the vast Arctic territory controlled by Denmark.
Trump’s renewed pursuit of Lauder’s idea during his second term is typical of how the president operates, Bolton said. “Bits of information that he hears from friends, he takes them as truth and you can’t shake his opinion.”
The proposal seems to have stirred Trump’s imperialist ambitions: eight years on, he is mulling not just buying Greenland but perhaps taking it by force.
Like many of those around the president, Lauder’s policy suggestions appear to intersect with his business interests. As Trump has ratcheted up his threats to seize Greenland, Lauder has acquired commercial holdings there. Lauder is also part of the consortium whose desire to access Ukrainian minerals appears to have spurred Trump to demand a share of the war-torn country’s resources….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
‘Cash….Money….Dollar Bills…’.
And guess who I’d bet gets a cut?