cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41391186
Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.
The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
Asshole
Oh, so that’s his morality.
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He is madman
He’s a mad fool being steered by evil madmen like Stephen Miller.
Theoden and Grima Wormtongue
Theoden and Grima Wormtongue
wormtongue would be jd vance, and thiel ironically has palintir to control wormtongue over with.
Vance probably has no power what so ever, it’s most likely Stephen Miller in Trump’s ear.
Two things can be true
It’s mad men all the way down.
Oops! All shit heads!
PeeWee Himmler
If god was real, he would have granted the prayers of billions of people around the world all praying for tge same thing.
The West doesn’t believe in God, and if we did, we wouldn’t be as corrupt and immoral to collectively put men like Trump and every single one of his also bloodthirsty predecessors in power. Trump is nothing but the naked, shameless truth of the American empire and maybe the West at large. Also, he’s just a sign of the times not the one responsible for it (end of American hegemony, transition of power into the hands of oligarchs/anational groups of interest) and, as such, part of the world is more than okay with it. Don’t you think every victim of America would rather they focus their violence on their own citizens instead of the rest of the world as usual? 🤷
You can’t just keep invading countries to distract from being a massive kiddy fiddler
At this point the Epstein files are a distraction from all the fascism.
Makes one wonder how much they planned this out. The Epstein files could picture Trump balls deep in a 13-yo girl, nothing would happen.
The fascists have larger goals in mind. They’re speed running WWII, trying to avoid the Nazi’s mistakes, so good so far. But like the Nazis, giddy over the lack of internal or external resistance, they’re biting off more than then can chew, way too fast. Cheap gasoline at the pumps only goes so far. They’re not energizing the whole economy like the Nazis did, people aren’t feeling it.
No idea what comes next. But the American Empire is over. Our economy is just too large to fall over quickly. But AI gives us hope! (Of crashing…) The Buffett Index is higher than either during the Great Depression or the 2008 recession. We have 200%+ more fake money in the stock market than our GDP. The cost will be staggering.
Can all y’all grow potatoes? I can, but I’m not very good at it.
Can you imagine the outrage if Biden said the things Trump has over the past, say, 72 hours?
They would’ve eaten Biden alive for saying virtually anything trump has said.
If they had any balls at all, potential Democratic hopefuls for 2028 should be announcing now,
“If Trump takes Greenland or any other country’s land, I’ll give it back immediately if elected.”
Trumps whole thing is throwing grenades and leaving others to deal with a fallout. No matter what happens with Greenland he’s irreprably damaged the USs alliances everywhere. The possibility the US is fickle enough to invade an ally and then undo it in 4 years is insane. Any successor to trump that wants to backtrack needs to sort out the rampant unchecked power of the office, not to mention the lack of accountability at so many levels of the government.
if people had any balls at all, they would abandon the traitorous democratic party
I propose a Superman party, where we save chipmunks, and drop dictators on cacti.
Edgy
"If Trump takes Greenland or any other country’s land, I’ll give it back
That’s not really what happens, from what I’ve observed. I think once a policy has been woven into action, it’s difficult to unpick all of the new dependencies and go backwards without wasting a tremendous amount pf resources. Most of what Trump has been doing is probably here to stay. The Democrats are super neutral on everything. there’s almost nobody pushing to the left.
The US has given up captured territories before. Including the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Cuba, and others.
Panama Canal
Hong Kong
Germany
All the Soviet Iron Curtain countries
Afghanistan
Lots of nuances, nothing is a black & white perfect analogy
Do you want to get coalitioned? Because this is how you get coalitioned
By whom though?
I can’t see Australia joining in a fight against USA when China is an ever present issue and they’re our only hope if China decides they’d rather have Australia.
Similarly, I can’t see UK actually joining a military action against USA.
I can’t see South America going to bat for European insterests, even if it’s against USA, similar for Africa.
Middle East will watch laughing.
Which really leaves mainland Europe, which will probably splinter along the lines of whether Germany or France gets to be the leader of the Coalition.
Well difficult to answer, an invasion of Denmark (pretty much what this would be) would change a lot and wouldn’t be the end of it. My money would be on Germany and France too, with UK being a deciding factor.
You did forget the newly militarized Japan in your analysis but yes that sphere would be too concerned with their own stuff.
Mainland Europe stood aside as Putin invaded their backyard. This inaction was not lost on the American fascists. See where we’re at today?
(And I am not excusing America’s lack of action, but FFS, we can’t do it ALL. And certainly can’t now…)
Can we just get to the nuclear apocalypse already? I’m so fucking tired.
I would vote for an asteroid if i could.
Rapist says what?
Nasty Guy.
Fuckin hell, this guy
“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said at the White House.
He’s just saying out loud what has been American policy since the day pilgrims landed, man.
“I’m gonna make ya an offah ya can’t refuse”
Many have outlined Trump’s mafia-style speech. Like the truly wealthy, the mafia is a group he admires, was never allowed into, wants to imitate.
It’s so clear I want to scream. The US watched the man make a fool of himself in the 80s and 90s, he was tabloid trash. Even The Apprentice made fun of his bombastic nature, but apparently neither Trump not his fans were in on the joke.
How many children in the 1980s were acutely aware of Trump? I imagine very few. You’re talking about people who were in their twenties and older in the 1980s. And if you were 25 in 1984, you were 65 in 2024. A lot of the electorate is simply too young to remember Trump in his 1980s incarnation. And while older voters do vote at higher rates, the difference is massively overblown.
He was a showman in The Apprentice, isn’t that enough to disqualify him as the unserious, self-centered and money hungry person he is? Nvm rapey, pedo, racist, etc etc. America is just a country of stupid lost souls, that’s all.
You just described me. I’ve known he was an insufferable putz since the 80s. By the 90s, I was seeing articles in the NY Times about money laundering for the Russian Mob. I was shocked they’d give him a reality show, but that’s bar is extremely low.
Looking back from the perspective of a Millennial or younger, I realize that the first time they really saw him was when Mark Burnett decided to polish his image on The Apprentice, and make him campaign ready. They only saw a carefully crafted hologram of him, and his re-brand worked.
I’ve had people tell me that I’m stupid for not knowing that Trump has always been the “King of NYC,” and they still LOVE him there. I laugh whenever I hear that, because I’m a New Yorker-in-law, and I’ve been visiting and living in NYC for decades, and I know first hand that NYers despise him intensely. I’ve never heard a real New Yorker say anything good about him. New Yorkers have ALWAYS had a special, deeply-rooted hatred for him.
Unlike ICE, the mafia has recruiting standards.
The Art of the Deal: shoot them and take all their stuff.
Art of the steal
Art of the kill
The high cholesterol in Donny needs to do something about him whether he likes it or not.
The universe sure is taking its sweet ol’ time keeping him here against our will…
I know right? The one thing that makes me upset is that both of his parents were not in great health and they both lived to be almost 100. While I don’t think Donny will make it to 100 there is always that small possibility.
I swear, if we have 20 more years of this crap–
I don’t even care if he’s not the president of the United States anymore because he still would be bothering me (and I’m not even American). I just want to never hear from him again. I want him to shut up and be as far away from the public eye as possible.
you can tell within the last few months he has been low on energy and he looks even more like hell. My grandmother passed away in 2008 from a series of multiple strokes with each one she became more and more slower than her brain slowly turned to mush, and she was unable to form a sentence and when she did, she was in her own little world. I see the same thing happening with Trump. Hopefully he is not much time left for him in this world. We can only hope.
Trump and his administration deserve to be kirked.
