Trump explains why US ‘needs Greenland’
23 Dec, 2025 09:22
The US needs Greenland for its “national security,” President Donald Trump has said, after naming a special envoy to the Arctic island, which is under Danish sovereignty.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has revived his long-standing interest in acquiring Greenland from Denmark, pointing to its strategic location and mineral resources. He has not ruled out annexing the island.
“We need Greenland for national security,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “You look up and down the coast, you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need it for national security. We have to have it,” he added.
Trump’s remarks followed his appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as the US special envoy to Greenland, saying he chose Landry because “he’s a deal-maker-type guy.”
Announcing the appointment, Trump praised Landry for understanding “how essential Greenland is to our national security.”
Landry later wrote on X that it was “an honor to serve” in the volunteer role “to make Greenland a part of the US,” saying it would not affect his duties as governor.
Denmark, which has pushed back against Trump’s drive to take the island, summoned the US ambassador after Landry’s appointment.
“Out of nowhere, there is now a special US presidential representative, who, according to himself, is tasked with taking over Greenland,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the TV 2 channel, calling the development “completely unacceptable.”
Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory of about 57,000 people, has managed most domestic affairs since 1979, while defense and foreign policy remain under Copenhagen’s control.
The US has maintained a military presence on the island since World War II. Vice President J.D. Vance visited a US Space Force base on Greenland’s northwest coast in March, saying Washington was unlikely to use force to take the territory but remained open to Greenlanders exercising self-determination and breaking away from Denmark.
https://www.rt.com/news/629907-trump-greenland-national-security/
Shit loads of minerals and rare earths.
Bases in Greenland essentially lockdown the Arctic and function as a fallback early warning system. Especially critical given previous over reliance on Satellites which are now more vulnerable than ever.
Not to mention strike capability into major rivals as well as resource denial. If we park our asses there. That means the Chinese and Russians can’t. Meaning those resources are ours.
Should we end up via one means or another. Parts or all of Canada. It also makes exploration and exploitation of the Canadian North more viable. As we have semi-built up areas already in existence to serve as jumping off points for costal operations. Instead of lengthy overland journeys or passage by boat.
Canada will eventually join. The fed Canuck govt hates and neglects their western half of the country so much it is inevitble in time.
ANYTIME that the travel distance gets shortened for the US Military the more valuable in acquisition and the less likely the Chinese or Russians will "try" to take it...the TRAVEL time is most important should there need arises to get troops & gear to a certain area of the world...
Also, Greenland would be a "WONDERFUL" storage depot for war materials...just sayin'!!!!
If America and Canada have a merger and if we also take Greenland then essentially the United States will have control of more than 20% of the world's fresh water and pretty much be completely resource independent. It'll turn North America into impenetrable Fortress and we will have a complete Monopoly on the Northern Passage
It also HALVES the distance from US soil to the UK.
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We've been through all this before, during his first term, remember? And nothing came from it, and thank God for that!
People cheering this idea seem completely unaware of who Greenlanders actually are or what the consequences would be. Greenland is a Nordic social-democratic society that love their universal healthcare, free higher education, generous welfare benefits, strong unions, strict environmental protections, secular governance, and support for LGBTQ and gender-equality laws.
Politically they sit to the left of U.S. Democrats, not somewhere MAGA-adjacent. If Greenland ever became a U.S. state, its citizens would almost certainly vote overwhelmingly Democratic, sending two reliably blue Senators, a blue House member, and adding permanent Democratic electoral votes, while simultaneously losing guaranteed healthcare, tuition-free education, extensive social services.
There is no constituency there eager to trade Nordic social democracy welfare mentality for the American healthcare system, U.S. culture-war politics, or weaker labor protections and the whole "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", self sufficient, rugged individualism that define the American spirit.
Strategically, the U.S. already has basing rights and security cooperation without annexation. We don't need to make it a state or buy it or any of that nonsense for our protection.
President Trump is obviously trolling the left with this, just like he did during his first term. We went over all this back then. Am I the only one that remembers that? Is this another example of goldfish memory syndrome? Why do people here keep falling for this shit? It's embarrassing.
But, go ahead and cheer bringing a shit ton of ultra liberals into the country, so they can whine and cry about everything they lose by doing so, and vote against our interests in everything.
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4 words: Puerto Rico and Guam
Puerto Rico and Guam are American territories.
I expect that the same would happen for Greenland.
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and BC are overall conservative and could become states or territories.
There are like 5 people living in Greenland. The 4th largest island of Hawaii has about twice as many people as Greenland. "With a population of 56,583 (2022), Greenland is the least densely populated country in the world. Greenland is socially progressive, like metropolitan Denmark; ..."
It's already ours, the rest is a formality.
The Danes can sputter all they want, they can't even defend their own homeland without us let alone hold any colony.
It's only a matter of time...
Allows for a land bridge to Europe with no Panama canalesque issues
If you need something, just take it.
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Guns sales to increase quickly
Some would say that our earth is larger then we have been told! Greenland isnt just named that for shits and giggles, its alot larger than we are led to believe..
I think Greenland is likely to end up in a Compact of Free Association with the US similar to Palau. They cannot exist as an unaffiliated independent nation. There are just too few people and too much outside interest. We must get them affiliated with us or the Chinese or Russians will.
TLDR could it be strategy for world disaster like in teh mooveez?