Trump Doubles Down on Greenland After Successful Maduro Raid
Europeans and TDS-sufferers in hysterics after Steve Miller’s wife tweets a red, white, and blue Greenland.
The saga of President Donald Trump’s quest for Greenland continues with a new chapter.
In the last chapter, the Danes were in hysterics over Trump naming Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as U.S. special envoy to Greenland. Special envoys are agents appointed as the president’s personal representative and are often appointed in response to congressional or public attention to a particular region or issue. As I noted then:
Unless the map of the Arctic changes significantly due to a seismic event, I suspect that the Trump administration will continue to give Greenland all the attention that it warrants…with or without Denmark’s approval.
It looks like I was right, as this weekend Trump underscored the concept that he viewed a more robust U.S. relationship with Greenland a national security issue.
On Sunday evening, after Ms. Frederiksen’s statement, Mr. Trump doubled down. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” he told reporters on Air Force One, seemingly emboldened after the American raid on Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro, its authoritarian leader, and his wife.
…Mr. Trump says that the island is vital for American national security, and argues that Denmark is not spending enough to properly safeguard it.
Greenland is important because of its geostrategic location. An American military base, which specializes in missile defense, is on the island.
Most of Greenland is inside the Arctic Circle, where superpowers are vying for both military and commercial dominance. Controlling the island would give the United States an outpost in a critically important naval corridor that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic, where climate change is melting the ice and making once-unnavigable territory a theater of competition.
Greenland also has huge stores of rare earth minerals. These are vital components for making batteries, cellphones, electric vehicles and other items using advanced technologies, and China dominates the global market for them.
The Danes, once again, clutched their pearls and complained about the Bad Orange Man. In fact, the Danish leader said the U.S. annexing the region would destroy the NATO alliance.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela.
The dead-of-night operation by U.S. forces in Caracas to capture leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday left the world stunned, and heightened concerns in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO.
Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart, Jens Frederik Nielsen, blasted the president’s comments and warned of catastrophic consequences. Numerous European leaders expressed solidarity with them.
“If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 on Monday. “That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War.”
However, it must be noted that some Danes would like to sell the Arctic island.
As a Danish person, I think Denmark should sell Greenland.
US can infuse cash into the development of Greenland that Denmark has no standing chance of matching. It's better for the Greenlandic people.
It's likely that US will take it by force, thus negotiating a good deal now… https://t.co/HxgHECP2kd
— Simon Høiberg (@SimonHoiberg) January 5, 2026
There were other interesting posts on social media related to this development. Perhaps the most fascinating was the consideration that when Trump meant “national security,” he was not concerned about potential critical minerals….but the fact that Europeans are not in a position to effectively deter adversarial actions, and the U.S. intends to fully implement the Monroe Doctrine because we are in the best position to protect that region.
🇫🇷🇩🇰 France proposed sending troops to Greenland, but Denmark replied that “it was not its wish.”
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Trump can thank European hesitation like this. Decades of weak military cooperation have made Europe vulnerable.
Ukraine, Greenland… Europe is being eaten piece by piece.… https://t.co/Uthnuar0oi
— Emmanuel Pernot-Leplay (@PernotLeplay) January 5, 2026
Europe does not have political or strategic control over Greenland right now. It is entirely autonomous politically and the US has strategic control via basing agreements. Greenland is not even in the EU. It is legally under specifically Danish sovereignty, not European.
— arctotherium (@arctotherium42) January 5, 2026
Both Denmark’s prime minister and most EU bureaucrats fail to grasp the danger Greenland is facing.
They simply lack the capacity to defend this vast but sparsely populated land, already under growing pressure from the world’s two most dangerous powers. https://t.co/K0H2OxHG9O
— Kosei Murata 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇫🇷🇹🇼 (@ilovetheworld1) January 5, 2026
Can you keep what you cannot defend? This is the consequence of outsourcing your national defense, then insulting the nation that has been providing it to you since the 1940’s.
A fun X-post from Steven Miller’s wife sparked Richter Scale 10 TDS hysteria.
SOON pic.twitter.com/XU6VmZxph3
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) January 3, 2026
Now, that image is amusing. However, Trump-haters were enraged…bigly!
Shameful. If trolling gross. If a joke, stupid and reckless (considering her husband). If a tease of policy in the context of Venezuela, indefensible. https://t.co/a4iLoF0pr0
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) January 4, 2026
It’s hard to say what the ultimate outcome will be. I think a Compact of Free Association would be a great option.
I suspect we will hear a lot more complaints from European leaders about Trump…and he will continue to ignore them.
Your periodic reminder why Greenland is important to American national security. pic.twitter.com/tNvkzeD9dY
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) August 28, 2025
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
If the price for Greenland is the US withdrawing from NATO I say it’s a deal! Greenland can choose what status they would like: a state – a commonwealth – a protectorate or something else. If needed I would sweeten the pot by throwing in Puerto Rico so that the Danes can have a nice warm place all their own to vacation. This is a real win-win.
Gotta have a deal to break it up, though. Otherwise, Texas and Alaska will vote no. 😉
“Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance.”
She says that like it’s a bad thing. 75 yrs of letting Uncle Sam pay to protect those cheese eating surrender monkeys bashing America at every step is quite long enough. If Trump pulled the US and it’s money out of Europe telling them to finally pay the hell up, that is a good thing and would be his greatest achievement short of throwing the UN out of NY. Denmark doesn’t even pay it’s required share. The US pays more than all other NATO members combined for it’s upkeep. Screw them and their wailing.
Trading Puerto Rico, a welfare drain, would be a win.
I do t think Trump should take by force
Agree with you but highly doubt it will come to that.
BTW: What’s with this comment.
“If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 on Monday.
Does the Danish Doofus realize Venezuela is not part of NATO? Which country is he referring to, Or is it a she. Eurotrash men are so emasculated and Eurotrash women so masculine it’s hard to tell these days.
That are referring to Greenland, which is sovereign territory of Denmark.
*They
Greenland. A US attack on Denmark would absolutely be the end of NATO. It would also be the end of any alliance the US is part of or might ever want to be part of; no one could ever trust the USA again.
That ship has sailed after Afghanistan
Trusting the USA has never been a paying proposition. Ask the South Vietnamese, or the Hungarians. But until now our untrustworthiness has been confined to our tendency to renege on promises of help. We haven’t actually attacked our allies. This would be a new low.
The truth is that NATO without America would be a paper tiger. They need us far more than we need them.
We still can’t go attacking our allies.
A lot of NATO members are not real allies, they are useless users.
Threatening to pull your dingy out of the NATO Navy is not the threat you think it is. She is just trying to deflect attention away from Denmark murdering all their cows for global warming and being invaded by muslims.
What’s with the renewed pitch?
Is it just feeling your oats after pulling off a raid? Or is he going to start imprisoning dictators there?
Meh, the Brits bombarded Copenhagen and stole the Danish Fleet in 1807 during the Napoleonic War while the Danes were still neutral. Plenty of precedent for regional hegemonic powers to take vigorous, proactive measures to ensure strategic assets don’t fall into other hands, especially the hands of strategic competitors. Not very nice to be sure but the world stage isn’t populated by nice guys running Nations.
In 1807 the Danes were neutral, not allies.
In 1940 the UK invaded Iceland; but that was not a hostile move, it was a friendly invasion to keep the Germans out, the Danes being otherwise occupied.
” the Danes being otherwise occupied.”
In every sense of the word.
Exactly.
Yes the Danes were neutral …just as I stated in my post. Nonetheless the Brits bombarded Copenhagen and stole the bulk of their fleet at anchor. They did it for two reasons. First the Danes were about to get taken over by Napoleon’s forces despite the Danes more/less cooperating in his Continental System. Second the Brits couldn’t produce ships fast enough or in numbers large enough. The Danish fleet falling into Napoleon’s grasp would possibly have brought British naval dominance to an end.
The Brits couldn’t take those risks so they conducted a bombardment of Copenhagen, landed ground forces to hold the anchorage, stole the Danish fleet (strategic asset) and sailed away. Every hegemonic power eventually asserts itself militarily to secure what it considers vital strategic assets when/if economic and diplomatic overtures are unsuccessful.
And that is the key fact that destroys your entire point. The UK could do that because Denmark was not its ally. A US attack on Denmark would be completely different, because it would be a betrayal of an ally.
Milhouse,
That’s really a bad take. To eliminate the ‘ally’ claim all the USA has to.do is tell the Danes we are are taking Greenland by force 30 seconds before the we enter their territory. Now the Danes are no longer an ‘ally’. For that matter as far back as 2019 the Danes kept waffling on the US request for Danish Naval assets to patrol the Hormuz and a request for Danish Army assets to Syria. Either the Dames are a loyal ally who understand the nature of their relationship with the USA given the disparity in size, population, economy who says ‘how high’ when we.say jump or they aren’t. Many Danish politicians on the left and center want to pivot from the USA dominated Alliance to a more EU dominant/focused one. Their choice but let’s not pretend that NATO membership, which became irrelevant at the end of the cold war over three decades ago with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, is some sort of eternal, immutable shield.
The larger point is that regional hegemonic powers do eventually assert themselves militarily to acquire strategic locations when economic and diplomatic overtures fail.
Nothing like a “friendly “ invasion
Yes, it was friendly. So friendly that a year later, when the UK needed its troops elsewhere, the Icelanders asked the (then-still-neutral) USA to take over the occupation so the British could leave.
He’s trolling. Having fun. He understands that attacking Denmark is not an option, and even talking about doing so is not an option, but he can have fun implying it without saying it, just to watch heads explode.
(Hence my comment about imprisoning dictators there. But I do want to know why he’s jangling that particular bell.)
It’s the same as when he talks about a third term. He knows that’s impossible. But he finds it amusing to talk about it and watch the Dems’ heads explode because they think he’s planning some sort of armed coup. Most of them are genuinely and honestly convinced that’s what he tried on Jan-6-2001; they’ve told themselves this story so often that they believe it.
I have no idea why your two comments were downvoted because that is *exactly* what Trump is doing.
He’s been in the public eye for forty odd years and at the center of the body politic for over a decade. I find it astonishing that people do not understand his MO.
If you’ve read “The Art of the Deal” and Scott Adams “Win Bigly” all of this makes sense.
You don’t have to agree, support or condone but it’s incumbent that you at least understand.
Why the downvotes?
Because of stuff like this–
Commochief says
“the Brits bombarded Copenhagen and stole the Danish Fleet in 1807 during the Napoleonic War while the Danes were still neutral.”
And then the site moron corrects him–
“In 1807 the Danes were neutral, not allies.”
But no one said they were allies.
Milhouse can make jokes, leftists can make jokes, but if anyone else does, Milhouse leaps in to correct the points and punchline of the joke as if it was said in seriousness.
After years of this, one starts every read of Milhouse’s posts while keeping a weather eye on the downvote.
Meh I don’t get offended by Milhouse or his tendency to use strawman/red herring…at least not anymore. In this case I suspect he didn’t read the entire post to last few words of my run on sentence to notice I had acknowledged that the Danes were neutral. It wound the first time he did so and he usually comes back and apologizes when this is pointed out calmly v with name calling.
I’ve come to understand that in this respect Milhouse is similar to how DJT uses bombastic hyperbole and ‘puffery’ to express himself. Those are tics are just part and parcel of their communication style. Sometimes annoying but tolerable. I save my down votes for truly bad takes that aren’t offered up in good faith and/or out right verbal attacks.
Azathoth, the filthy demon from Hell, spews his dishonesty yet again.
Yes, Chief correctly pointed out that Denmark was neutral. But that is the entire point. That is what justified the UK’s attack on it. An attack on a neutral power, especially one that’s about to fall to the enemy, is a completely different animal from an attack on an ally. No possible comparison at all. Denmark is a US ally, so no precedent from 1805 can be cited to justify a US attack on it.
Hang on. Are you saying that an attack on an ally is unprecedented and/or not possible?
I seem to recall Israel attacking the USS Liberty in ’67. Officially both gov’ts claim mistaken identity but there’s at least some dispute of that by the survivors. Then there’s indirect attacks such as spying. Jonathan Pollard being one example. He was convicted and post serving his sentence released and flown to Israel (on Sheldon Adelson’s aircraft) where Pollard was granted a pension and housing by the Israeli govt. So is Israel a US ally or do allies sometimes engage in overt and covert actions against their own allies when circumstances dictate?
How come two down thumbs? Milhouse is right. Any purchase would have to give the UK right of first refusal. Greenland doesn’t cost Denmark anything. After living under the US shield because of the Cold War, the EU nations have gotten used to not delivering their required part of the bargain with NATO. The real bargaining chip for US is pulling out of NATO. How much is that really worth now? More than Greenland… So time to deal.
Other members of NATO have mooched off America so long that they have come to believe that it is a right.
Somalia must be member of NATO by now
This is how Trump controls the news cycle; rabbit punching the Leninist-democrat media.
They’re just now putting the finishing touches on Why Maduro is the Good Guy and suddenly …
The Danes used to be a fearsome people. Medieval times hit them hard. They were awful in the joust.
“In fact, the Danish leader said the U.S. annexing the region would destroy the NATO alliance.”
Go ahead, make my day. What’s the point of NATO today? To make Europe safe for Islam?
Doan throw me inter dat briar patch!
He’s going about this all wrong. He’s trying to bully Denmark, and if they cave it’ll be humiliating to their political leadership and their careers will be over – and their reputations forever destroyed.
He needs to woo them. Figure out what they’d need in order for the SALE of Greenland to the US to be seen as a political WIN for them. Something the voters in Denmark would overwhelmingly approve.
Similar for the people of Greenland, but that’s a much easier sale. US investments into Greenland would be huge and benefit the people financially.
You mean as humiliating as allowing millions of non-Christian’s to flood in to your country to rape, kill and maim as they please kind of humiliation??
Paaaaahleeese…we have come to realise that the one emotion leftists are utterly incapable of experiencing IS humiliation.
Just throw the president in a burlap sack. Just roll tanks in in the middle of the night. Nuke Denmark. We’re America and we can just do whatever we want.
What president? Denmark is a monarchy.
I don’t care if they have a grand puba. They’re nothing compared to the might of red white and blue so they belong to us. USA.
It’s Grand Poobah. Just fyi.
/EYEROLL/
If the Muslim problem is not fixed, there may be a time when it will be necessary to nuke parts of Europe.
Trump’s been on the national stage for a decade now. How have some people, especially his enemies, not figured out that he trolls? Statements like that are terrific distractions while he works on other things. If he’s lucky the Greenland thing will create protests and much hand wringing from the elites. We’re not invading Greenland, and there’s not even any serious interest in buying it.
When Trump moves on something it’s sharp and sudden.
Greenland will vote to be it’s own sovereign country pretty soon as it’s been moving in that direction for years. At that point Denmark has no say over who Greenland aligns with and I bet the US will make a better pitch than Denmark. The real interesting action will come if China offers them more money.
They aren’t going Chinese
Meh. The Danish PM’s remarks are the usual dreck we have come to expect from the EUtopians: the brave plucky European leader standing up to the warmongering American barbarians. With rare exception this is the shtick most European leaders have employed since the Cold War and is entirely for domestic consumption.
In reality the EUtopians are terrified at the prospect of the US withdrawing from NATO, since it would mean they would have to (a) start spending more on their own defense and less on welfare goodies, or (b) learn to speak Russian and/or Chinese. Personally I believe Europe will become an Islamist sh*thole before it becomes Russian or Chinese property, but we will see.
Europeans (particularly their “leaders”) are realizing how powerless they really are and are terrified. And they should be. They’re powerless to stop Russia. They’ve invited in invaders. Their own people hate them.
The only thing that’s saved them for the past hundred years has been the benevolence of America. If that changes and America decides to treat Europe how Europe treated the rest of the world for centuries, they’re doomed. And they know it.
“They’re powerless to stop Russia. They’ve invited in invaders. Their own people hate them.”
If these countries had been run by devoted saboteurs for the last 30 years, what would they have done any differently?
“Next, we’ll close down all our nuke plants to build windmills, and give all our emergency generators to Ukraine!”
“How about we outlaw fertilizers and then feed poison to all our cows?”
“Genius!”
“THANK you!”