Trump Says The U.S. Will 'Go As Far As We Have To Go' To Acquire Greenland

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Mar 27, 2025, 10:53 AM EDT


President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the purpose of Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Greenland is to reinforce the idea that the U.S. has to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory, warning that Americans will “go as far as we have to go” to get control of the island.

In an interview with Vince Coglianese, Trump said a U.S. delegation was traveling to the territory this week “to let them know that we need Greenland for international safety and security.” “We need it, we have to have it,” Trump said. “It’s a island that from a defensive posture and even offensive posture is something we need, especially with the world the way it is.”

“I hate to put it that way, but we’re gonna have to have it,” he continued. Asked if he thinks the Greenlandic public would be on board with his plans, Trump said he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t think they’re un-eager, but I think that we have to do it and we have to convince them.”

A recent poll shows the overwhelming majority of the people of Greenland oppose joining the U.S. This is not stopping Trump, who separately told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the U.S. “will go as far as we have to go” to get control of Greenland.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-increases-pressure-greenland_n_67e541b4e4b03374624d0580/amp

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25th Amendment time.

[FakeNoose]

1. I'm willing to impeach Chump and remove him from office

Is that far enough?

[DENVERPOPS]

65. How about dropping him, from 70,000'

with a parachute, from an SR-71 over Moscow.............

Putin STRATEGICALLY wants: Greenland, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska for Russia's future global domination. Putin desperately needs them all.......

All Trump is doing is following Putin's orders, along with most other things the Trump/Musk/CABAL are doing........

[BaronChocula]

73. parachute? n/t

[Moostache]

76. 100% optional on that parachute... (n/t)

[DENVERPOPS]

93. Nope

I want them to live and experience being a Russian citizen under Putin....

Trump, All Republican Politicians, and the entire Republican CABAL.............

They will all have outgrown their usefulness to Putin, so he will probably shoot them out of the sky before they land.....

[alimbalt]

139. Jumping to a ...

... conclusion?

[Trueblue1968]

100. Wish he would visit the inside of an active volcano... Like he could just DROP in to say HI.

[ruet]

2. ...

[PSPS]

3. He wants it mostly because it looks so big on a Mercator projection map

[FakeNoose]

17. He can't wait to rename it "Trumpland"

[erronis]

26. See? He has the highest number! Best in class!

[GreenWave]

51. And he has a matching IQ to boot!

[brush]

120. Heehee. And his new number 47 has to be even worst.

[FakeNoose]

135. Yes, now he's the TWO worst presidents in the US History

[Stonealone]

47. LOL!

Love it! and I'll bet you that he will make sure that there is a beautiful woman behind every tree!

[RazorbackExpat]

97. Where the f is George W. Bush on that list?

Stolen election, sitting in a 2nd grade classroom like an idiot during 9-11, two bullshit wars, ramming through the "PATRIOT" Act, secret no-fly lists (which even included Senator Ted Kennedy), secret roundups of Muslims, two recessions, housing crisis, constant terror terror terror...

How the f were any of the presidents on that list worse than that?

[LT Barclay]

105. Where are both Bush's and Reagan? This is the best thinking of "experts"?

Why do so many people have difficulty with phraseology of "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic"?
The Constitution is a concept and a organizational structure. So it can't be burned down like a building. So an "enemy of the Constitution" is is someone who is out to destroy our system of self-goverance .
So while some of these guys may have been serious screw ups and make some major errors, I doubt that many of them reached the level of enemy of the constitution like Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Bush daddy's puppet, and Trump.
I'm sick of the right wing celebrations when they get what they want no matter what it does to the country. Which includes everyone from the voters to the demented bastards orchestrating this shit show.

[Lucky Luciano]

119. John Tyler was a full on traitor. He was a member of the confederate House of Representatives.

The union should have been much more viciously harsh during reconstruction.

[BattleRow]

29. Green $$$ land.

[electric_blue68]

75. LOL

[OnionPatch]

86. He's jealous because Putin has such a big land area on the map

😄😂

[JPK]

101. He wants it...

Because it is bigger than Ukraine to show up Putin.

[calimary]

116. All anybody needs to know about this bastard is two words:

“he wants.”

[wcmagumba]

4. Greenland, a current territory of Denmark needs to get the troops ready.

If blob man orders an invasion of Greenland NATO (sans US) should repel rump's goons...

[mdbl]

6. I hope he's sending his Jan6 mob. I don't want to pay for this stupidity

[Hope22]

34. I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Nt

[mdbl]

131. They aren't a bright bunch

It wouldn't take much for Greenland to show them the ocean.

[Bayard]

8. I see that coming if he continues this nonsense

He insists Greenland is a security issue now, under his watch, when it never was previously. I can see WWIII in our future, and no one benefits but Putin.

[ananda]

22. Nobody on earth benefits from another world war.

Period

[BidenRocks]

109. There are too many people

who would sabotage unamerican actions against friendlies.
My country right or wrong, is crap!

[harun]

16. Should be a force of all European nations.

[thought crime]

40. Before invading he will try the Art of the Deal.

How much would it take for each Greenlander to sell out? A million dollars? Two million? Three million? What if they sell out but can keep Danish citizen rights for life? How many would take the deal? What happens if he did that and China made a higher bid? Or offered to buy Alaska?

[mountain grammy]

59. Thanks.. the only chuckle I got from this whole thread

[VMA131Marine]

92. 45,000 Greenlanders X $10 million

Equals $450 billion!

That’s almost real money …

But they better ask for cash not T-bills!

[BadgerMom]

112. And no crypto!

[Justice matters.]

114. The 34-times convicted felon (unanimously by a Jury) does not pay his bills

and all Greenlanders know it (better than 77 million American voters who voted against their own self interests).

[EarlG]

53. Indeed -- for all the talk of how Greenlanders feel about this,

lets not forget that Greenland is a territory of Denmark, and all its citizens are Danish citizens. Denmark is a founding member of NATO and is protected by Article 5 which states than an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members.

Does Greenland count for the purposes of an Article 5 intervention? According to Article 6:

For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

* on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;

https://www.nato.int/cps/ua/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

Obviously a NATO country has never been attacked by another NATO country, but that's where Trump is leading us currently.

[DENVERPOPS]

68. The NATO members, (less the U.S.)

will consider any impending action on Greenland, by Trump, as a line in the sand......

[Cha]

70. TY so much for this, EarlG. I have been thinking

about Denmark. And how they and NATO can help Greenland.

I think Greenland is MumPutin's first stop on their attempt to take over World Domination.

[WheelWalker]

106. He could literally precipitate WW3. Humanity doesn't need that.

Most of humanity, including most world leaders with real power, don't need or want that. It might not be American politicians or even the American people who put an end to his Napoleonic insanity.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Right wingers will impeach him if our

Servicemen are sacrificed over this,

[Scrivener7]

9. I wish I had your faith.

[maxsolomon]

10. No, they won't.

They're going to have him added to Mt. Rushmore.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Nope.. Because shared hate is more important than anything.

[Captain Zero]

33. I'm assuming he also wants it to

Be a base for his evil intents on Canada.
Sad to say.
Elbows up.

[Martin Eden]

125. Just like they impeached GW Bush for sacrificing thousands of servicemen

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In Iraq going after non-existent WMD.

He even joked about it, pretending to look under his desk.

[Baitball Blogger]

132. GW Bush indeed escaped legal justice for that.

But Cheney was already talking about a long-term war. So, what happened? I saw a priest comment that they were told it would only take a few days, Shock and Awe, because they expected to kill Saddam Hussein during the bombing. And then, when we it was prolonged, there was video of heartland moms cock-blocking Army recruiters saying that their sons at home with them.

So, yes, there was a massive shift in sentiment in the red states and GW Bush had to pull out.

The problem for Trump is that he doesn't have the massive support for an attack against any country he's targeting, so expect something fabricated to occur.

[Martin Eden]

133. Every time I see a commercial featuring horribly maimed veterans, pleading for money

I curse Bush and Cheney, who belong in prison for war crimes.

[SharonAnn]

28. Probably. That South African white supremacist thinks that he should control it all.

[thought crime]

45. Freedomland

Every tech bro will want a retirement bunker in Greenland.

[dem4decades]

62. Freedonia, it's been run by idiots before, might as well these idiots too.

[artemisia1]

12. "Are you like a crazy person?" (SARCASM at Trump) /nt

[twodogsbarking]

13. Nope. Won't happen.

[Torchlight]

15. I often get fooled thinking The Borowitz Report is real reporting until I glance a the source.

Now I think I'm going to get fooled by real news thinking it's satire until I read the source.

That foolish, short-sighted degenerate is forcing the next four generations of Americans to apologize to the entire world for his idiot buffoonery.

[thought crime]

64. The Goodbye Look

Apparently Make America Go Away hats are selling well. I believe we just got the Goodbye Look.

[riversedge]

90. For a quick second I was thinking the op was the onion and was going to have a chuckle--then

I did a quick chin up motion and said aloud. OMG!!

[Chi67]

18. That would start...

...WW3. The same if Trump ever tries to invade Canada.

[thomski64]

57. ..if the motherfucker were to view..

..Russia as an adversary, it might make sense to beef up our military presence there, to annex it would only be to exploit resources.....
Clearly dipshit doesn't see Putin as a threat, more someone to felate.. So that leaves two reasons, 1,) there are minerals there ( perhaps even unobtainium!!) 2.) Because he's the biggest asshole in the world..

[johnnyfins]

60. No. In fact, he sees Putin as a HUGE threat

TO HIM PERSONALLY!!!!! Vlad's got the goods on TSF. That's for certain.

[Polybius]

122. No it won't

No one's gonna jump in and risk annihilation if we attack Greenland.

[MuseRider]

19. Somehow he thinks that he needs it

and he wants it and that is all he needs to get it, he already owns it in his mind. We all know this guy is crazy and that he thinks he can always get what he wants but speaking of Greenland and the people who live there like that just makes my skin crawl. It is his announcement that none of us are anything more than what he wants us to be at any time and all the toys are his. We have always known this but just seeing it in writing and supposedly from his own gross, dirty mouth is the creepiest thing I have ever read.

[tanyev]

72. He sees something he wants, he just pops a couple TicTacs and grabs it.

[MuseRider]

98. Exactly, that is all it takes.

Most of us have to make money, he just has it and it means absolutely nothing other than that it provides everything he wants. A disgusting pig.

[Karasu]

20. He should be fucking overthrown for saying this shit out loud. It's happened to more competent dictators for much less.

[thomski64]

61. ..saying ridiculous shit, constantly..

Is to distract from his disastrous failure as a human being..
See we're all talking about him...

[erronis]

21. That's how his reptilian brain works. "I want it." "I'll grab it by the pussy." "They let me do it."

[Don1]

23. This is basically the same as Lex Luthor's idea

He knows climate change is real, Greenland is warming, US states will experience tons of problems, wildfires etc. He wants to buy up Greenland real estate in anticipation.

[EarnestPutz]

24. Greenlanders: "Thanks for asking, but are you fucking kidding me?".

[orleans]

25. this "we need it, we have to have it bullshit" sounds like a tag line from an old food commercial

absolutely 25th amendment time

[Amaryllis]

36. ALso sounds like classic addiction talk.

[txwhitedove]

27. The world is so bad right now? But, i thought Donald was good friends with Vlad and Kim.

We weren't fighting with the rest of the world until Donald took office.

🫣

[wcmagumba]

30. If I was 20 instead of 68 I'd volunteer for Greenland...

[flashman13]

31. Trump needs a new home in an insane asylum. It's definitely A 25 time.

I'm going out on a limb here to say that the U.S. military would not obey a clearly illegal order to attack Denmark/Greenland.

[Karasu]

41. I''m not so sure they wouldn't. Many of the analyses I've seen on that scenario suggest you'd have an intramilitary

conflict as a result, bu it would likely still end up happening. I personally doubt it for much the same reason that I don't see the military overthrowing this administration, even when they really now have every bit of incentive to do so. Americans have long since been conditioned to "do their jobs" above all else.

[heckles65]

32. In that Bible of yours, JD...

does it have the words "Thou Shalt Not Steal"?

[Uncle Joe]

35. He's threatening a NATO ally with unprovoked aggression, so yes it's 25 Amendment time.

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

[Midnight Writer]

37. "We need it. We have to have it!"-the chant of every four-year-old who has never been told "no".

[Angrboda]

38. End of the EU?

If the US annexes Greenland, it would be the end of NATO. The EU would be deeply divided on defending Denmark, and that could break up the union. Greenland is surely the Achille's heel that would be the easiest way to weaken or destroy the EU and spark a withdrawal of US troops in Europe, long term goals of the Kremlin, and, apparently, Trump. Pawn takes queen.

[NH Ethylene]

89. Are you sure? Little is so compelling as having a common enemy. n/t

[moonshinegnomie]

39. greenland should kick all us troops out

close the us space base there.

[Karasu]

43. Yep. They should bar this JD Vance clown troupe from entering the country at all.

[moonshinegnomie]

50. or even better,arrest him

send him to a maximum security prison in some place like iran....

[Karasu]

63. As nice as that would be, Trump would definitely use it as an excuse to attack/invade. But I really don't understand why

they aren't just refusing to allow entry, which they can very easily do.

[Polybius]

123. Trump would love that

It would give him the perfect excuse to attack.

[coprolite]

42. The Phat man says

we need Greenland for international safety and security.”

Trump has done everything within his power to destabilize international security, such as:

Announce the US is leaving Nato,
Threatening sovereign nations,
Stop helping Ukraine,
Support Russia,
Supports closing US Bases in Europe.

Trump isn't worried about International security, he is a LIAR.

[niyad]

44. I think there are too many numbers in that last sentence.

[Pesky1]

46. This smells of a usual Trump move...

There apparently is no doubt that this "president" is boiling with the wish to invade somebody. Especially a neighbor like his "overseer" is doing. But with the Signalgate event growing, there has been a watch among informed people waiting to see what nonsense thing(s) Trump would blow into a media storm with high volume (but virtually no light). There's the claim on "Truth" Social that Greenland must be taken over, rattling watchers around the world. Also the continuing belligerence toward Canada, and also the bullying claim that the Vances are coming in friendship, but too bad if something happened to your nice country.

He certainly wants to use "his" army, but this is also Vintage Trump deflection. Wait, where's that story about some meeting...wasn't there some illegal meeting or something?

Stay alert blue side, some resistance seems to be working.

[PortTack]

48. Big talk from the little man....trying to deflect from signalgate

[sop]

49. Trump was always a fucking psychopath, now he's completely lost touch with reality.

A dangerous combination.

[Marcuse]

52. SLAVA GREENLAND!

This is not stopping Trump, who separately told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the U.S. “will go as far as we have to go” to get control of Greenland.

[C_U_L8R]

54. I'm with Greenland.

You be you and don't let this orange clown intimidate you with his threats. He has no support to go all Hitler annexing nations.

[AllyCat]

55. Oust this nutcase already!

[Historic NY]

56. WTF does that mean invasion sanctions/////

this man's cheese has slipped the cracker.

We already have an air force base there, its not some vacation paradise. Maybe fix up that secret Cold War base that NOAA found buried under the ice.

i

[Evolve Dammit]

58. Some military people that have his ear have convinced him that this is necessary. He has no idea what he is doing beyon

[Karasu]

96. More like Musk and Thiel.

[LT Barclay]

118. I was just thinking about why this is an obsession and remembered that there is still a lot of pushing and shoving

over Arctic boundaries. So I’m thinking that this has to do with controlling arctic resources and controlling the Northwest Passage.

[Evolve Dammit]

136. yes indeed now that shipping channels can be open more or less year round. Lotsa oil too. What could go wrong?

[KatyaR]

66. How long until we send troops in?

It'll be the start of World War III.

[GreenWave]

67. Maybe he should take a long walk on a short pier to show how determined he is!

[generalbetrayus]

69. Hey, the thought just occurred to me that Orange Julius Caesar's major jonesing for Greenland

is because he thinks it is full of putting greens.

[Paladin]

71. Fuck this shit.

I want an end to this insanity, just as soon as possible. Democratic leadership, do your Goddamned duty.

"...we're gonna have to have it." Let me repeat myself: Fuck this shit.

[GiqueCee]

74. Prezzidint Shit-For-Brains...

... can't seem to grasp the fact that all of Greenland's mineral wealth is UNDER 2 MILES OF FUCKIN' ICE! And his assertion that it's in "The National Interest" is wall-to-wall, knee-deep bullshit.

[Marcuse]

82. For now. It will be melting.

[GiqueCee]

129. True...

... but probably not in our lifetimes. And I don't believe for one second that the Orange Gargoyle gives a happy rat's ass about "posterity". He cares about no one but himself. He even said, during his previous occupation of the ketchup-stained White House, that "I'm the only one that matters."

[stillcool]

77. I guess it's that mineral(?) whatever

resource they have that is used in electric cars.

[defacto7]

78. So if he thinks he needs it so badly,

what ever happened to the novel idea of working together? What's wrong with meeting them on equal ground and making a case and building camaraderie?
Oh no. Not this asshole. He has to own it, take it, fuck it, not even buy it. It's mine, mine, mine, gimme.
Jackass.

[ancianita]

79. When he breaks the NATO Treaty that is the law of the land, the US Military should refuse all orders.

[Marcuse]

85. Canada and Denmark could invoke Article 5.

[ancianita]

88. Yep. 31 militaries against this one.

This military would do well to surrender and seek "terms." Let our previously fired military leaders replace the current traitors. Then see what Muskovite and Putin would do about that.

After Signalgate one can't just assume that all this is just bluster, while this govt's tax monies, gold and other assets are stripped. There are a lot of Silicon and Heritage moving parts at work here.

[Karasu]

95. They absolutely should if he fucking tries.

[Blues Heron]

80. I hate to put it this way, but we're going to have to have this guy committed to a facility for the criminally insane

[WheelWalker]

103. Like St. Helena?

[louis-t]

81. Weasel words. "I don't think they're un-eager."

What the fuck does that mean? You are going to see how "un-eager" they are. Asshole. Question: Who does having Greenland defend us against? Putin? Your friends in China?

[BumRushDaShow]

83. That made-up word stumped me too!

[louis-t]

84. I don't think Finland or Sweden will attack us.

Someone put that thought in his head and I would like to know who. He certainly didn't come up with it himself.

[Hekate]

111. Sounds like something he'd say about a woman he raped

Doesn't it?

[Norrrm]

87. "To Acquire Greenland", "to get control of the island"... and then what? Make them a state?

Or just a piece of property with some nuisance inhabitants?

Dubya chose Gitmo because the prisoners would supposedly not have the same legal rights as if they were actually in America.

What would be the status of the locals?

[NH Ethylene]

91. People have been treating this as a joke, but someone needs to stop him (looking at you, Congress)

Next thing you know he will be chatting about military plans and sending American troops up there to slaughter innocent people. He wants to be like Putin, like Netanyahu, grabbing land through vicious force.

[Marthe48]

94. Why did I think of this:

[Hekate]

113. This is incredibly apropos, that's why. I've just shared it with 3 other people. SMH

?si=UGNc0HO3SXE7mDMy

[Figarosmom]

99. This is crazy.

And I sure hope the military will not attack them for the purpose of taking over their country.

This is so over the top.

So who is it that he thinks we need that land to protect against? I thought he was all buddy buddy with putin. The only strategically need would be if him and puti. Decide to go after European countries. Or the resources in the Artic.

[Jack Valentino]

102. We don't "have to aquire" anything. If the US needs more space for military bases on Greenland,

for reasons of national or international security,
surely we could negotiate to lease such space from them-- no need to take over their country!
(Unless you've been reading 'Mein Kamph' again too much lately....)

Indeed, Trump becomes more Hitler-like by the day!

What happened to 'the art of the deal', Diaper Donnie?
(well of course, that was ghostwritten. Maybe you should read that,
or get yourself a book on tape)

[dobleremolque]

104. Naksarlugu! Taikkua maligarnik uqallaktiujut uvattinniimmata.

Inuktut for "Bring it on! The spirit of the Code Talkers is with us."

(Ok, purists, I know it isn't Greenlandic, but Google Translate doesn't do Greenlandic. Yet.)

[AmericaUnderSiege]

107. Americans will go as far as we have to go to defend NATO, traitor.

Do what you're gonna do and find out.

[calimary]

108. Give it up, orange shit-head.

While you still can.

Before you do any more damage.

We’ve already lost a good friend (Canada). Who’ll be next? Great Britain? How about Europe? How much of Europe do we risk losing? How about the 5 Eyes folks?

Tourism to the U.S. will probably be WAY down this summer.

I fear we’re now on a fast track to being screwed.

[Initech]

110. I'm willing to go as far as I have to remove these fucking maniacs from power.

[Hekate]

115. We are agreed that he is nuttier than squirrel poop, right?

[IronLionZion]

117. Twice impeached convicted felon

What's it going to take to stop this idiocy?

[Ford_Prefect]

121. How many GOP Congress members and Senators to we need to barbeque to stop this?????

[HarryM]

124. If this isn't Borowitz

It sure sounds like bullshit, or sarcasm. WTF is going on? How is he getting away with this crap? How can he expect to stay in power if he invades? Surely enough of the few sane members of Congress would step up to impeach and imprison this bass turd.
Then there are the long standing NATO implications.
It literally has me sick. Physically sick.

[Doodley]

126. Trump's statement is a declaration of war. Greenland and Denmark made it clear they don't want to hand land to MAGA

[BumRushDaShow]

128. But then ONLY Congress can formally "declare War"

although this -

H.J.Res.542 - Joint resolution concerning the war powers of Congress and the President.

further clarifies the role of the President with respect to engaging in hostilities. The infamous "War Powers Act" (actually "Resolution" )

[Aussie105]

127. 'Go As Far As We Have To Go'

As always, Trump-speak is vagueness personified.

It could mean if enough people say 'No way, dude!', he will get the idea and sulk, and never mention it again.
Or it could mean he is prepared to turn the whole world into a smouldering trash dump if he doesn't get his way.

In the old days, when reporters were fearless, one would ask him WTF that statement actually meant.
Alas, these days . . .

[no_hypocrisy]

130. Stick'em up!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stonieb/6827367578

[travelingthrulife]

134. This is why you don't put psychopaths in the President's chair.

[Oopsie Daisy]

137. I expect that someone will "go as far as they have to" in order to stop him.

Stand by. Watch this space.

[Bengus81]

138. One sick metal case who should be removed by the Constitution Article 25.

[intrepidity]

140. Coming soon: "Elon! Buy me Greenland!"

Maybe this will finally break those two up, if/when Elon refuses.