All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

"Just give me Greenland. Or else."

The view from Nuuk
How does the saber-rattling play with the 57,000 people who live in Greenland?

Not well, report Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli, who traveled to Nuuk, the capital, to find out. They discovered a kaleidoscope of feelings: shock, anger, confusion, humiliation, insult and, most of all, fear. No one they spoke to wants Greenland to be recolonized, and very few have any interest in joining the United States. One told them she was well aware of the holes in this country’s health care system and its gaping economic inequality.

I talked to Jeffrey about that yesterday. He told me the people he spoke to hated the idea that officials thousands of miles away might decide their fate. And they are worried about changing the way they live:

People here enjoy a highly Scandinavian standard of living, which means free health care, free education and a strong safety net. At the same time, they value their traditions. I can’t tell you how many people we’ve met who still hunt seals and reindeer and love ice fishing and spending hours outside, with their sled dogs or on their snowmobiles.

Jeffrey had just talked to a Greenlander selling secondhand clothes and knickknacks on the street in Nuuk. “Trump really wants it, he keeps saying he wants it, and if he comes what are we going to do?” the guy told him. Then he laughed. His name was Thue Norhsen. Jeffrey asked him if he wanted to become an American. “I like the way things are,” Norhsen said. “I don’t want to give that up.” Jeffrey said it was a refrain he had heard in Greenland over and over again.

A strategic hub
The Trump administration wants Greenland for a host of reasons, including its mineral resources, its size and its strategic location near Canada, Europe and even Russia via the Arctic Ocean. Among other things, it’s a good place to keep track of Chinese and Russian naval ships crossing new routes through melted ice. (It’s also a good place, because it’s so close to the North Pole, to track missiles.)

NATO countries like the United States also use those routes and gather intelligence to counter Russia. Trump has repeatedly berated and coerced the organization, demanding that its member nations pay more for defense. Now, his quest to take over Greenland, which as part of the Kingdom of Denmark is already under NATO’s protection, has raised concerns that he will shatter the alliance itself.

Trump said yesterday that NATO “should be leading the way for us to get” Greenland.

That view came with an implied threat: Without American military power, “NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent — Not even close!” he wrote on social media. “They know that, and so do I. NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES.”

But what if Trump seizes the island by force? Then NATO has a different problem.

NYT

[Svartalf]

we need to make frump understand that we won't hesitate to rubble mar a lago if he farts the wrong way, and that if that's not enough, we'll send a Foreign Legion special team to usama him.

[Tero]

The invasion of Greenland will have Trump at "police station" or Thule. NATO will be at Goose Bay, closer to SW Greenland, where they also have an air field.

[Tero]

Some 50 ICE clash with protestors
https://www.threads.com/@coffeeroxy48/p ... NkI&slof=1

[Tero]

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[pErvinalia]

[aufbahrung]

https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/iran-thr ... -26302018/

A bullet will always find its man

[Brian Peacock]

Interview for ICE 6 minutes long and no background check.

[pErvinalia]

Is there hope that Vance isn't really as extreme as Trump? He did call him a Nazi. So eventually (hopefully soon) Trump will die. So we'll either end up with Vance or a limp-arse Democrat. Neither hopefully will be as bad as Trump.

[pErvinalia]

[Brian Peacock]

China should start suggesting they need Hawaii and the Philippines for security, and Canada should start dropping hints about Alaska.

[Tero]

Thry were paying too much tax under Biden. Only...we were under the Trump 2017 tax law.

https://www.threads.com/@misskeeks614/p ... zfg&slof=1

[Tero]

ICE now running facial ID on people with cell phones. A person on Medicaid? Rought them up and ask for ID.

Potential Implications of the New Medicaid Data Sharing Agreement Between CMS and ICE
Going forward, the sharing of Medicaid enrollee data with ICE will likely make immigrant families, including citizen children in those families, more reluctant to access health coverage and care and other programs and services. The policy exacerbates already heightened fears among immigrant families due to increased immigration enforcement activity overall. Even prior to the public notice of the new data sharing policy, the KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants found that about half (51%) of immigrant adults were “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” that health officials or health care providers may share their information with ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

https://www.kff.org/immigrant-health/po ... s-and-ice/