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Trump has been trying to distract from his backpedaling on all of his campaign promises (massive & stupid tariffs, lowering grocery prices somehow, deporting like 1/4 of the population, etc) before he's even been sworn in by saying he's going to annex/buy/maybe conquer Greenland from Denmark. He's also said this about Canada and sort of about Panama.
The whole thing is a media stunt, but basically, he sent his son and a bunch of other ghouls (pictured in the OP) to Greenland to make an appearance for the media. They did, then they left. It was a fools' errand and there were lots of fools to choose from.
Edit: Confirmed: https://newrepublic.com/post/190070/donald-trump-jr-greenland-staged-homeless
This is not a media stunt. All Danish political leaders have been called in for an emergency meeting later today
Having an ally, and especially your strongest ally, tell you that they can't exclude the possibility of economic or military action against you, is critical, even if it was meant as a joke
He may be using it as a media stunt, but it is having real consequences in the real world already
"A joke with real-world consequences" sums Trump up nicely, I'd say.
I get what you're saying, but... realistically, there will literally be 0 consequences, no? Like what could Denmark or Canada or Panama even do?
All of these countries have more allies than just the US. And all of their allies are concerned. It is naive to think that USA can do whatever they want, because nobody can do anything about it.
I'm asking what Greenland did.
Oh they and Denmark each issued statements to the effect of "No... Greenland is not for sale. And if you try to invade greenland, we will defend it." And the King of Denmark made the decision (which i have heard called brave and unexpected) to... wait for it... change the royal seal somewhat to emphasize the elements representing Greenland.
Ok the meme says "when he finds out the Danes, the native Inuits of Greenland .... hate his daddy's fucking guts". That is what I'm referring to. What happened for the meme to say that? This sounds like more happened than Denmark saying no and changing the seal.
Beats me. Apparently 25% of the residents of the capital, Nuuk, are Greenlandic Inuits. I'm sure they aren't happy about the whole thing since it's their land. But I don't see any news stories about this specifically realting to them.
I like that he keeps saying Canada will become a new state of the United states like it's not a larger land mass than the United states with multiple discrete provinces and territories.
There's about 40 million ppl in Canada and about 38 million in California. I don't support the idea but it's not entirely insane for it to be one state.
Nah it's pretty ridiculous, most States of the USA have less than a quarter of the population and 20 have less than a tenth. Suggesting Canada joins as a single state is nonsense, particularly when it has 13 provinces/territories, each with their own established governments. The whole system of government is different from the USA.
Apart from the whole being part of the USA thing. That's insane. I just hope Canada's right wing are not so craven as to want to sell out their country, but I don't trust them.