Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States' hands is 'unacceptable'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:49 AM EST, January 14, 2026


NUUK, Greenland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than American control is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.

In a post on his social media site, Trump reiterated his argument that the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He added that “NATO should be leading the way for us to get it” and that otherwise Russia or China would — “AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!”

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump wrote. “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”

Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, is at the center of a geopolitical storm as Trump insists he wants to own it — and residents of its capital, Nuuk, say it isn’t for sale. The White House hasn’t ruled out taking the Arctic island by force. Vance is to meet Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt in Washington later Wednesday to discuss Greenland.

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He also said that "Mexico would pay for the wall".

But this go-around, anything to distract from Epstein.

[AcanthaV]

1. NATO is a defense pact, not Trump's personal real estate agency.

He’s literally demanding that NATO "lead the way" for the U.S. to seize Greenland from Denmark. Does he even understand what NATO is? It’s a collective defense treaty, not a brokerage firm for his Arctic fantasies.

He’s calling the sovereignty of a loyal ally "unacceptable." If we follow this path, NATO is dead. Why would any nation trust a defense pact when the leader of the alliance is eyeing their territory like a 19th-century colonial power? This is strategic self-harm at its finest.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Does he even understand what NATO is?"

He was 3 years old when that treaty was signed and ratified. His collegiate education (if you can call it that) was basically "business". So he had little applicable "book learning" on history and instead "learned" (if you can call it that) by "on the job" real estate ventures (and misadventures) with his father. He eventually "went global", wheeling and dealing in other countries, both before and after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

[AcanthaV]

18. The Cost of a Transactional Worldview

The issue isn’t just that he doesn’t understand what NATO is; it’s that he views it as an 'obsolete' burden. Because he fails to grasp the founding logic of 1949 (the Soviet threat), he perceives today’s threats from Russia and China merely as commercial competition. This gap in his background is exactly why relations with even the most loyal allies, like Denmark, are now reaching a breaking point.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. I think it is more the mindset that was presented so eloquently 50 years ago this year

from the film "Network" -

[ColoringFool]

43. I Wasn't Born. Completely Irrelevant.

[BumRushDaShow]

44. See my reply above (and watch the video if you have never seen that movie or that scene)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3598608

THAT is his mindset.

[Ray Bruns]

2. NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,"

And exactly why is that? Hello? Anyone? Bueller?

[Multichromatic]

3. Why !!!!????!?!?!

Why is Trump SO OBSESSED with "owning" Greenland? Very few people live there, I'm sure the mineral resources aren't priceless and unable to be found elsewhere, and we already have a base there for security.

What could possibly be SO IMPORTANT about having this chunk of land? It's totally laughable to make this a state. Plus it would be another blue state. Republicans hate adding blue states to the US. See Puerto Rico and D.C.

[NCDem47]

6. I suspect three things:

1. He and his cronies will make a LOT of $$$ of it;

2. In his view, it's a "legacy" to be forever remembered in the history books (boy is he looking at it the wrong way);

3; And this is the biggest one of all...Putin says so. This is it. This is the primary driver. Putin told him to do this or he would destroy him. Putin wants NATO taken down. And Trump and Putin both have disdain fro Europe.

[Bengus81]

10. I suspect one thing...it's a massive distraction from the Epstein files

[NCDem47]

12. Agree.

Trump and Co. DEFINITELY stpped on the gas with all this overseas nonsense immediatly after holidays and all the Epstein drama just before.

[flying rabbit]

36. If you look at a risk board

holding greenland, venezuela and alaska is a move that makes north america hard to take.Summary: He is not very bright.

[Multichromatic]

45. LOL

[MrsCheaplaugh]

7. I don't know the specifics

but it's because Peter Thiel and the other tech bro oligarchs insist it's a good idea. They believe they're entitled to Greenland with all its rare earth mineral resources, so they're using their sock puppet Donny to get it for them.

[Moostache]

30. Do not forget this is the same asshat that believes Gaza would make a great vacation spot...

He is a lunatic and very, very bad at his job (and everything else he has EVER tried). This is coming from a man whose death is going to set off the largest party in human history.

[travelingthrulife]

37. He was promised the western hemisphere. Putin gets all of Europe and Africa

Remember he has interfered in several elections in South America. It is why we gave 40 billion to Argentina so that authoritarian, who is now very loyal to Trump, won re-election despite tanking their economy.

[Sneederbunk]

42. The Greenland issue is a way of disrupting NATO.

Putin wants NATO disruption so it follows that Krasnov does too.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. Seeing anything less than a full release of the Epstein files as well as the removal of the regime.

Is also 'unacceptable'.

Which one would be better to have happen?

Which one is a dodge for the people who know they are in those files and are desperate to do anything to stop their open release?

And lastly, which one will really help the faltering nation? The attempt at starting word war three, or finally releasing the files that will purge our government of its filth as well as forcing fundamental changes to our society so that it will never happen again?

Such a tough choice, I guess.

[Abstractartist]

8. Uggg

Can you imagine how proud the dead soldiers parents will be when their son/daughter dies not serving their country for an honorable reason, but to just allow an old, demented piece of dogshit attempt to get a boner?

That’s all Greenland means to him…. Something to jerk off too.

[chouchou]

13. That's a good point! Also...

Years later...
"Where did you serve?"
"Um..ah..Greenland"
"Greenland?...That doesn't count"

[raccoon]

9. I hope the NATO members tell him to go pound sand.

I sincerely hope they will stand up to him

[chouchou]

11. The Generals in the Armed Forces should get together and shout: ...

"Sit your dumb-ass down and stop trying to play Conqueror"

[Diraven]

14. Trump will probably arrest the Greenland PM

And then declare that makes Trump the new ruler of Greenland. That was their whole plan in Venezuela.

[WestMichRad]

15. Gee... Ya think today's meeting of Danish representatives with Vance

… is going to be productive?

At least the Danes will be able to say “Hey, we tried to reason with them!”

[Moostache]

32. They should seize him as a war criminal and then imprison him for the duration of Trump's insanity (n/t)

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Defective Baby Brain

Shit-for-brains sees something he wants.

Shit-for-brains says he wants that thing, even if it belongs to someone else.

Shit-for-brains hears it’s not his to have.

Shit-for-brains cries until everyone relents and he can have it.

Works every time.

Shit-for-brains sees something he wants.

Shit-for-brains says he wants that thing, even if it belongs to someone else.

Shit-for-brains hears it’s not his to have.

Shit-for-brains cries until everyone relents and he can have it.

Works every time.

Shit-for-brains sees something he wants.

Shit-for-brains says he wants that thing, even if it belongs to someone else.

Shit-for-brains hears it’s not his to have.

Shit-for-brains cries until everyone relents and he can have it.

Works every time.

Shit-for-brains sees something he wants.

Shit-for-brains says he wants that thing, even if it belongs to someone else.

Shit-for-brains hears it’s not his to have.

Shit-for-brains cries until everyone relents and he can have it.

Works every time.

Ad nauseam.

[RockCreek]

40. Adults in Europe

please stop this cycle.
We hear you have great, affordable childcare for toddlers.
Please use the lessons from the playroom with this tantruming toddler.

[LPBBEAR]

17. My Guess

is that Greenland is part of a larger grand airhead idea he has hinted at occasionally and wants to unveil in the future. A "Golden Dome" missile defense system. Beyond the minerals and shipping routes global warming exposes it would give the U.S., Greenland sits geographically in an area that can potentially act as a defensive buffer to the flight paths of missiles coming over the Arctic circle from Russia, China, and North Korea. Positioning missile defense sites there would give an extra early warning to protect against attacks against the U.S. as well as a offensive platform that would be an advantage against those countries in the event of hostilities.

Not saying that's the right or logical thing to do.

The more practical and logical approach is to accomplish the same thing by working with NATO and Denmark through treaties and mutual defense pacts....but that would be too obvious for an evil psychopathic megalomaniac dipshit like Trump.

That, IMHO, is why Trump thinks the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He'll try to work this into some kind of national political advantage at some point.

[William Seger]

19. We already have military bases there; "national security" is gaslighting bullshit (nt)

[LPBBEAR]

25. I did mention

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that it wasn't logical but on the other hand its Trump we're talking about.

[travelingthrulife]

38. He brought up his 'golden dome' just today as part of our need to invade Greenland.

Completely nuts.

[Justice matters.]

20. Because of NATO's Article 5, neither Russia nor China will even attempt

"to take it"

They know Denmark is a signatory in the NATO alliance and would immediately invoke Article 5 so all of NATO would have to defend it.

That stupid argument is just another gaslight from the dangerous conman pedophile who knows nothing (a fucking moron, as Tillerson said), but nobody in the press seems to know that Article 5 thingie too.

So he's going to send troops he called "suckers and losers" earlier in harms way for a territory neither Russia nor China will even just TRY "to take it" ever?

[LuvLoogie]

21. He wants to split Canada from Europe

And create a hole for Putin

[ananda]

22. Anything other than having Trump out of office is unacceptable...

along with majorities in the house and senate.

[sop]

28. It's unacceptable to me he's not in prison, along with the rest of his henchmen (and henchwomen).

[ananda]

29. That too, most def.

!!!

[yourout]

31. You can thank feckless Merit Garland for that.

[hamsterjill]

34. +1000

And here will come the defenders in three, two, one...

[LPBBEAR]

35. And which Republican was it

that suggested Garland be appointed?

[maxsolomon]

23. He's not going to stop pushing.

3 more years of this Imperialist bullshitting. 3 more years of Denmark having to deal with his pathologies.

[Goonch]

26. ;-{).......

[YoshidaYui]

27. He'll never get his grubby hands on it

Not by a long shot!

[BidenRocks]

33. We only need one Claus von Stauffenberg.

Chump wants Cohn, this is who I want.
One brave American to do what all the cowards in Washington refuse to.
Remove chump!
The easy way or the hard way!

ICE is chumps SS. His private Army with no oversight except him. They have no morals and are mercenaries against we the people.

I don't believe the regular military will back the full invasion of America.

[Figarosmom]

39. And just yesterday

Speaker Johnson said there has been no one of any seriousness has said we need to take Greenland.


Oh yeah?

When are they going to 25th trump? It's way past time.

[RockCreek]

41. Since its the speaker saying this,

Impeach and convict will work just fine.
No need to involve the puppet cabinet.
Thank you!