Trump weighs buying another territory after Greenland fiasco: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 07 June 2026 15:38 EDT


The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after President Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.

The president has repeatedly threatened to seize or annex several nations and territories, including Canada and Venezuela, which he has potentially claimed as 51st states. He has also delivered similar threats to Panama and Cuba, with U.S. naval vessels building up forces throughout the Caribbean and launching a campaign of military strikes against small boats that the president claims are trafficking drugs.

His latest alleged plan follows delays in U.K. legislation that would complete the country’s cessation of the territory to the east African nation Mauritius after withdrawal of U.S. support in January. Trump called the treaty organizing the cessation of territory “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY” at the time.

The Telegraph reports that a plan to buy the territory, placing it directly under U.S. control, is among the options being presented to Trump as he makes a decision on further steps for the Chagos Islands, which consist of dozens of islands in the Indian Ocean. The president’s foreign policy has bent sharply towards territorial acquisitions since he returned to the White House, and the U.S. is now in discussions with Cuba’s government over multiple issues including the decades-long U.S. trade embargo of the island.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-chagos-islands-buy-threat-b2991394.html

[Sweet Rosie Red]

1. So if the dotard buys the territory

Does he think he buys the people too? Or do they just infest his new property? What is this oligargich obsession with buying islands? Somebody please explain this like I’m 6, cause I just don’t understand.

[calimary]

3. Maybe he's looking for a hideout after all of this is over?

[RazorbackExpat]

10. They were aiming for an Albanian island

But the people of Albania were so pissed off about the deal, they firebombed the PM's residence

[BaronChocula]

2. ADHD

Absolutely
Dumb
Hated
Douchebag

[GiqueCee]

4. Donald...

... Sweetie, Baby, Cookie, Honey, you can't even run the country you've got, never mind adding islands you couldn't find on a map with both hands and a flashlight. You're running out of distractions, kiddo. Time to hang it up, before Fate hangs you. And Fate ALWAYS wins this crapshoot.

[tanyev]

5. Donny to the world:

[RockCreek]

6. Cash only, pay on "delivery", if they don't want to get stiffed.

And additional $ for all inhabitants. Plus US Citizenship (if they want it) before transfer of territory.
That many "non-Aryan" appearing new citizens would turn the Racist in Chief off the deal immediately.

[Intractable]

7. He's desperate to expand the size of the United States territory, just so he can say "I did that."

[Bayard]

8. Because we have so much extra money laying around....

How do the people living there feel about being, "bought?"

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[reACTIONary]

9. There really are no "inhabitants" ....

.... on these islands.

The only permanent inhabitants are employees of the military, including civilian contracted personnel, on Diego Garcia. The Chagos Islands are the homeland of the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole–speaking people, though since 1971 no Chagossians have been allowed to live there. The United Kingdom expelled the entire Chagossian population from the archipelago at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973. The main forcible removal of Diego Garcia's population took place in July and September 1971. In 2026, a group of Chagossians returned to the archipelago without government permission in an effort to reestablish the settlement on Île du Coin, and began legal action to establish their right to stay permanently.

[EX500rider]

12. Even then there was no indigenous population

Uninhabited until the late 18th century, Diego Garcia had no indigenous population. Its only inhabitants were European overseers who managed the coconut plantations for their absentee landowners and contract workers mostly of African, Indian, and Malay ancestry
At the time of the expulsion in the late 60's there were only around 975 inhabitants.

[Retrograde]

13. Using what for money?

He spending our taxpayer dollars like there's no tomorrow - is Congress going to appropriate funds for his real estate fetish? Or his he going to move money from one place to another to another to another and htionsope nobody notices? And doesn't the Senate - who per the Constitution have to approve treaties - get a say in territory acquisitions?