President Donald Trump has predicted that Greenland will be under U.S. control by the time he leaves office in January 2029.

Trump has fiercely pushed to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic since before he returned to the Oval Office. The globally unpopular move has helped strain America’s relationship with its European allies, who see it as a threat to Greenlanders’ sovereignty.

Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”

Like fuck it will

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[–] 103 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How are these not threats of violence?

If a random country's ruler said, "We will take Utah by 2029", America would have kidnapped the entire family and killed a few hundred people in the process.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There’s a silver lining in it though. If some act of violence by god, or some unhappy trump supporter causes him to technically never leave office, then this will be among the Chief Pedophile’s best aged proclaims.

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  • [–] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I am not even sure all of the continental US will be under his operational control by the time he leaves office.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago*

    I’m not entirely sure all of the current US will be under federal control by the time he leaves office…

    Edit: thanks to DoctorNope for demonstrating that I’ve never had an original thought

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    So he will leave office? We have it in writing.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    For a day before he coups the goverment due to "election fraud".

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The only thing that will happen for sure is that he will shit himself every day.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    trump just doesn't understand the notion of "NO". no wonder he's accused of being a rapist.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Well on the bright side this means that won’t happen.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”

    “You'll be right. They want to do something,” Trump said. “Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from their standpoint…You should make that bet.”

    I honestly try my best not to listen to Trump speak because it seems to hurt my brain and be bad for my soul, so maybe I'm just misinformed here, but I'm surprised that Trump would even acknowledge that he'll be leaving office.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    this is great news!

    it means he's planning on leaving office!

    🤔 then again....he never delivers on his promises, so does that mean he's expecting to never take control of Greenland and thus never leave office?

    silver lining, moving to Greenland will be a win/win.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The EU really needs to actively, and covertly, fund secession movements within the USA. Do to them what they have been doing for decades around the world, and are actively trying to do to us right now.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    meh he'll be dead by the end of next year anyway so JD can get a full 10 year term.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've heard "he's right on the verge of dying" for 10 years. Same with Putin. I'm not holding my breath. He won't go on his own, he needs a helping mob with a bit of rope.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    just like he is going to win the war with Iran...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Why have there been so many articles posted on Lemmy recently where people are linking to the MSN, Yahoo, or apparently AOL version instead of the original?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    People probably use news portals like AOL for the convenience of finding articles from a variety of sources, but doing so also makes it harder for people to determine the source of that information or block content from certain outlets.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's just kind of surprising that users on a decentralized platform would go out of their way to use an ad/user tracking platform rather than an RSS feed or something more privacy friendly.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Ultimately I think the Threadiverse would be well-served with user growth, even beyond a privacy-focused niche, but there should always be a baseline of quality to acceptable news sources, something that news portals obscure.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You'd think NATO would have some written protections about not threatening to annex other members.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    NATO has always been first and foremost a tool for US control, it didn't really matter when the children were fighting because the US could just tell them to cut it out, but now the parent is bullying the kids and the kids are wondering what the point of this arrangement even is.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    So, not much difference between US and Russian administrations.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    The US isn't under his control during his time in office. The man can't even win a war he started with the biggest military in history. If there was a wet paper bag in the room he would be found within it and lost.

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Why does the phrasing "when he leaves office" send shivers down my spine?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Quit giving him attention.

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    [–] 54 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The joke here is that he won't leave the office

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Says the president who "would end the Russo-Ukraine war in 24 hours when he is in office." Day 559 of 24 hour peace deal so far.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    gotta distract from the failed iran war which was a failed distraction from the epstein files which still need to be released.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    so hes declaring war with europe here then, cuz thats how i interpret that

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    He's saying he will be at some later date that is still tbd, is what i am reading.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Donald Trump is a rapist, pedophile and is using all these distractions to keep our minds off those facts.

    Die Trump die.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's easy dismiss this as more BS coming out of his mouth. However, the US kidnapped Venezuela's head of state in January, now controls Venezuela's oil (a huge source of income and oil), and only gives a little bit to Venezuela.

    More recently, the US is trying to directly destabilize Europe. US congress voted to support Morocco in taking back the currently Spanish enclave, Ceuta. It is beginning to look like the US launched a social media disinformation campaign that caused 50,0000 migrants to try to cross the border into Ceuta in a single day (a highly irregular number). Migrants say they saw online that if they made it in they would be granted EU residency (or whatever). When Spain expressed support for the migrants, pretty much every EU head of State turned on Spain.

    Chump is full of shit. But at the same time, he's clearly fascist and spreading it globally, which MSM is under-reporting and normalizing, ofc

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    As a Canadian, I've been terrified since he kidnapped the leader of Venezuela. It was a reminder that he might actually attack neighbouring countries any time. I was actually expecting to be at war with the Untied States by now

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    He says a lot of shit, most of it ain't true. What an absolute joke of human being. Remember that concept of a plan for healthcare he's had for..what..over a decade now? Or how he "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities or military or whatever-the-fuck he made up? Or how smart people really don't like him?..oh wait no that one is true. All just misdirections to keep the focus away from Epstein. Where's those unredacted files you said you would release, oh wait, would maybe release because "they could hurt a lot of people" like..no fucking duh, that's the point. Eat a dick.

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    But he never intends to leave office

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    Before you try to control Greenland, you should first be able to control your bowels

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wow that orange pedophile really did kill that little girl, didn’t he?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So is this a post from January or what

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Anything to distract from the Trump-Epstein files

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Thank God! I mean Greenland is only protected by NATO (which includes the US) right now.

    Imagine if China, a neighboring country that is just halfway around the globe, or Russia, which is depleting it's mostly soviet era military at a demented speed, were to try to invade a NATO country.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I wish Denmark would be our new overlords instead

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Uhmmmm, noo? Think again, Denmark has free healthcare, regulated housing market, worker rights, extensive consumer protection and resocialization-focuses penal system.

    You still want that, huh!?

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