People give him way too much credit for his intentions. He wants Greenland because it’s a big landmass that would look big on a map and he saw Putin invade Ukraine and wants to emulate that but better.

There isnt some deep thoughtful strategy here. It’s sadly that simple.

Someone should tell him it's not actually that big. Greenland is a lot smaller than it looks on our maps, which have been edited out of scale to allow navigation on a globe using two dimensional maps. Greenland is like 1/4 the size of the lower 48.

Sadly I doubt there is anyone in his administration with the courage to even tell him that.

JD Vance sweating super hard at the mess hes gonna inherit when donnie shits himself to death

He'll pull another chameleon move.
He'll see how well Mamdani is doing so suddenly he turned from atheist to pious Chrsitian to devout Muslim.
His wife will remind him that non-whites are ok too so he'll do an 180 on Millers xenophobic bs.

Let's see how big daddy Thiel will spin this for him.

posting this again here

tl;dr

u no give me nobel prize? me take your land !!!! orange baby mad!!!

completely void of reason

And yet he got Grover Cleveland'd. Just imagine how powerful Vance will be - Trumpism without the Boomer/toddler complex.

Donald Trump has imposed 10% tariffs on Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Norway in response to the Greenland dispute (i.e. they wont give him something that they do not own and they are trying to protect their child from the pdf*). The EU has not responded with any meaningful economic countermeasures. Why? because it needs all 27 countries to agree, and they do not all agree. Instead, Europe’s reaction has been limited to weak diplomatic statements and weaker symbolic gestures. This lack of response is consistent with the EU’s institutional weakness, its (spineless) dependence on the United States, and its deep reluctance to confront an American president directly.

In the next six months, it is expected that Trump will escalate the tariffs to 25% noting the EU is highly unlikely to take actions that satisfy the U.S. demands. Based on Trump’s pattern of behavior and his rhetoric, this escalation is pretty much guaranteed. The EU can not respond quickly (or at all). All they can do is hope that time will resolve the issue for them, because they cant resolve it.

*We are allowed to play with words now, noting he has by his words and actions, declared himself the enemy of the free world.

This post was edited by ferdia on Jan 19 2026 03:57am

The dude is an international embarrassment damn near every day.