Trump says Greenland would benefit as a part of the US
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
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Donald Trump expresses interest in acquiring Greenland as Donald Jr. visits the Danish territory.
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| 0:00.0 | But another country people are focusing on is Greenland. |
| 0:03.9 | Trump said that people at Greenland are MAGA and will benefit tremendously as part of the United States. |
| 0:10.4 | And in fact, Don Jr. is there in Greenland right now following his father's interest in acquiring that territory. |
| 0:20.0 | But it's not this is not happening, right? |
| 0:22.1 | So you do, you wonder, what are we wasting our time on? |
| 0:24.9 | Is the goal of this to get some sort of new trade deal cooperation okay? |
| 0:31.0 | Nobody thinks that Denmark is going to sell Greenland. |
| 0:34.6 | It's simply not going to happen. |
| 0:36.7 | And we don't have any money to buy things |
| 0:38.6 | anyway. So like, how does that work? The estimated price I saw of Greenland was between $1.5 and $2 trillion. |
| 0:46.8 | We have no money. What would we buy that with? Even if it were to, I mean, logistically, it doesn't, |
| 0:53.2 | it doesn't work. We're not becoming, |
| 0:55.2 | Canada is not becoming a part of America. But what we can do is figure out ways that we can get |
| 1:00.6 | better cooperation, we can get better deals. And especially in areas like trade and border |
| 1:06.1 | security as it relates to Canada, we have been getting a very raw deal. There's a lot of |
| 1:10.7 | dangerous people who are coming in to this country through the Canadian border. |
| 1:15.9 | So Greenland's prime minister in a recent speech, he was emphasizing their desire for independence from Denmark. |
| 1:22.2 | Independence from Denmark, but not dependent on the United States. |
| 1:45.1 | Of course, Donald Trump is saying that ownership of that territory is an absolute necessity. It's part of the reason why Don Jr. is there right now. Don Jr. has been posting pictures of the island calling it beautiful. Did you know that Kokomo, Indiana's population is bigger than that of Greenland? But here's a guy from Greenland. He throws on a MAGA hat and he tells Donald |
| 1:52.0 | Trump to buy the territory. So like if you could tell Trump anything, what would it be? |
| 1:56.6 | Buy us. By Greenland? By Greenland. Why do you want Trump to buy Greenland? |
| 2:01.3 | Because we don't want to be colonized by Danish government anymore. |
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