This is what wil happen with Greenland

[RandySF]

1. Trump will eventually announce an agreement with Greenland to locate an anti-missile defense system there even though existing treaties already allow him to do so.

2. Trump will also announce that Greenland agrees to expanded rare metals mining even though existing trade deals established procedures for it.


There will be no Greenland invasion.

[GiqueCee]

1. It's just like him claiming...

... that HE just discovered the word, "GROCERIES". Treaties already exist, but he HAS to take credit for other people's accomplishments. What a complete and utter asshole.

[sop]

2. I'm still trying to figure out what will happen in Venezuela.

Trump seems to have lost interest now that he's obsessed with Greenland.

[Blue_Roses]

7. He lost interest in Venezuela

because none of the oil companies will give him the 1 billion he asked for. CEO of Exxon told him Venezuela is " univestible", which pissed Trump off. So now he's trying to swindle every country he can think of...

[yaesu]

3. I think those 1500 troops he called up will be flown to our base in Greenland

and tRump will frame it as an invasion.

[DFW]

4. And 3.

He will declare “victory” after a serious round of tough negotiations has finally yielded a result that is in line with his demands. This result, as pointed out in the OP, will mean “finally” reaching agreements that were made years ago, and are still in force.

Next, he will demand that the Finnish Nobel Committee award him the Nobel Prize for Physics, honoring his world-shaking discovery that water is wet. Finland will request additional NATO protection until such time as Rubio can remind Trump that there is no Finnish Nobel Committee.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I think he will demand that other NATO members pay for a lot of the "defense system"

even though they don't think it's needed, and it only defends the USA (maybe Canada at a push, but I doubt Trump will want the design to do so. If subsequent presidents and congresses actually continue the project, they may well fix it to be of use to Canada).

The problem is that NATO will end up agreeing to pay something, just to get him to shut up. It's like being a contractor for him - at some point, you give up trying to get him to pay his bills because fighting him through the courts takes too much time, and there's the risk of lawyer's fees.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Here is the letter that trump sent to Norway linking Nobel Peace Prize to USA takeover of Greenland.

trump is mentally ill

Link to tweet

CONFIRMED: Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has acknowledged Trump’s letter is real.

The letter reportedly ties Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize decision to Greenland, questions Denmark’s “right of ownership,” and declares the world isn’t secure unless the U.S. has “Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

PBS’s Nick Schifrin reported the text was obtained from multiple officials and circulated by NSC staff to European ambassadors.

It reads like a meme.

It’s not.

Here is another version

[sop]

8. The U.S. also had boats landing in Greenland hundreds of years ago?

Must have been the Continental Army's aircraft carrier, the one that also took over the airports during the Revolutionary War

[Mz Pip]

10. Auto Pen?

Couldn’t take the time to actually sign the letter?

[Danascot]

11. The Nobel Prize committee should emphasize that:

- Nobel Prizes are not transferrable
- despite anything Machado may say it is only on loan to him
- and he is only a caretaker for her prize
- and caution him to take good care of it for her.

[Mz Pip]

9. And he'll call it a big win.

Meanwhile, the rest of the free world will still hate us.

[Tommy Carcetti]

12. Hopefully it goes the TACO route

With Trump, it's either always the TACO route or TDTDDOTCSHCHWDBPWDTHS (Trump Decides to Double Down on the Crazy Shit He Claimed He Would Do But People Didn't Take Him Seriously) route. (Think "Stand back and Stand by" )

There's never an in-between.

[Renew Deal]

13. That might be true if it was about defense

It’s about natural resources.

[Prince99]

14. Troops will enter Greenland

Book it. After all the bluster from NATO, they will acquiesce with the mindset they will get it back when he leaves. Will NATO be able to hold on by then is the question.

[Vinca]

15. I hope you're right and that's the extent of it. I have my doubts.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. MaddowBlog-Trump connects his Greenland crusade to his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” the president said in a truly bizarre text message to Norway's prime minister.

In case there were any doubts, that utterly bonkers message Trump sent to the Norwegian prime minister? It’s entirely real.

He effectively argued, in writing, that his crusade for Greenland is partly the result of the Nobel committee hurting his feelings. #madking www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-19T15:39:53.345Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-connects-his-greenland-crusade-to-his-failure-to-win-a-nobel-peace-prize

But in case these circumstances didn’t seem quite ridiculous enough, Trump managed to take matters to a whole new level in a message he sent over the weekend to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, in which he suggested part of his Greenland crusade is rooted in his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The message, first published by PBS, read in its entirety:

Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT

....For now, let’s not dwell on the fact that Trump’s message was filled with several factual errors (he has not, for example, “stopped” eight wars). Let’s also brush past the fact that he apparently believes the Norwegian government is responsible for awarding Nobel prizes (it’s not).

Let’s instead consider the nature of the American president’s pitch: Norway hurt his feelings by failing to give him an award he wanted but did not earn, which means he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” and which further leads him to believe that the NATO alliance should simply let him buy an arctic island, which isn’t for sale and which does not want to be part of the United States, with money he does not have.

There’s been an ongoing conversation for quite a while about whether Trump deserves to be seen as a “mad king.” As the public digests his message to the Norwegian prime minister, it’s likely that conversation is poised to grow considerably louder.