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/
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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; ..."