President Donald Trump said America “has a concept of a deal” regarding Greenland and the Arctic.
Trump did not offer many details on the deal or the talks:
TRUMP: Well, we have a concept of a deal. I think it’s going to be very good deal for the United States, also for them. And we’re going to work together on something having to do with the Arctic as a whole, but also Greenland. And it has to do with the security, great security, strong security, and other things.REPORTER: The market, 600 points, getting back a lot of some of the nervousness we had in the last couple of days. The tariffs are off? Nothing happens on February 1?TRUMP: No, we took that off because it looks like we have pretty much a concept of a deal.REPORTER: A deal of ownership?TRUMP: Well, it’s a little bit complex, but we’ll explain it down the line. But the Secretary General of NATO and I and some other people were talking, and it’s the kind of a deal that I wanted to be.REPORTER: Denmark? Did they weigh in on, on what they want, what they would agree to?TRUMP: Well, I assume they did, because he very much represents, he’s a strong leader, Mark, you know, Mark and he, I assume he’s been speaking to them. He’s been speaking to all of them.REPORTER: Are mineral rights involved? Is ownership involved? The Golden Dome?TRUMP: I don’t want to say yet.REPORTER: But the Golden Dome was very compelling today when you talked about…TRUMP: Yeah, the Golden Dome, and they’re going to be involved in the Golden Dome, and they’re going to be involved in mineral rights, and so are we.REPORTER: Is, you can’t, it’s not specific enough to know at this point how long this lasts, how, whether..TRUMP: Forever.REPORTER: Forever? It’ll be forever.REPORTER: For Greenland at this point?TRUMP: Yeah, forever.REPORTER: That’s a staggering…TRUMP: This better than a 90 day…REPORTER: This is, this is what, two hours after…TRUMP: It’s better than the Obama deal with the famous Iran nuclear deal with a nine year, with a nine year deal. No, this is forever. This is a long term.
Trump followed up on Truth Social:
Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning The Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made available as discussions progress. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and various others, as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations — They will report directly to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter!DONALD J. TRUMPPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Earlier today, Trump reinforced his intention to acquire Greenland for national security, but pushed back against the narrative that he would use force.
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable, but I won’t do that,” Trump said, reported by Politico. “That’s probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force, but I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force.”
Also, what is this Golden Dome? If Israel’s Iron Dome pops into your mind when you hear Golden Dome, you’re not far off.
Trump first proposed a Golden Dome defense system in March, drawing inspiration from Israel’s Iron Dome and President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
Israel’s Iron Dome protects the country from rockets.
Reagan wanted the SDI to protect the country as a whole.
Reagan announced the SDI in 1983 (I was only 2 years old) during the Cold War, when everyone thought the Russians would drop nuclear bombs on America.
I found this archived page from the Department of State website:
The heart of the SDI program was a plan to develop a space-based missile defense program that could protect the country from a large-scale nuclear attack. The proposal involved many layers of technology that would enable the United States to identify and destroy automatically a large number of incoming ballistic missiles as they were launched, as they flew, and as they approached their targets. The idea was dependent on futuristic technology, including space-based laser systems that had not yet been developed, although the idea had been portrayed as real in science fiction. As a result, critics of the proposal nicknamed SDI “Star Wars” after the movie of the same name.There were several reasons why the Reagan Administration was interested in pursuing the technology in the early 1980s. One was to silence domestic critics concerned about the level of defense spending. Reagan described the SDI system as a way to eliminate the threat of nuclear attack; once the system was developed, its existence would benefit everyone. In this way, it could also be portrayed as a peace initiative that warranted the sacrifice of funds from other programs. Privately, Reagan was quite adamant that the goal of U.S. defense research should be to eliminate the need for nuclear weapons, which he thought were fundamentally immoral. In terms of the Cold War conflict with the Soviets, a successful defense system would destroy the Soviet ability to make a first strike, which in turn would undermine the USSR’s ability to pose a threat to the United States at all. So success in this area, supporters of SDI argued, could potentially also bring an end to the Cold War.
Reagan’s idea never came to fruition.
Now Reagan’s dream might come true thanks to Trump.
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