[DIRTYSECRET]

My friends it's even bigger than the Louisiana Purchase by about 10,000 square miles. What we do with the rights of the Greenlanders is immaterial. No hat-in-hand butt kissing in the negotiations like before under other presidents. We are the Real Deal and all the despots in the world know it.

[ansel12]

It isn’t anything close to the Louisiana Purchase, or the Mexican American War results, or Texas, or the Alaska Purchase, but I see it as the biggest related thing since those, and a modern version of such.

[Sacajaweau]

Look at a world map. It should be a part of the USA...at least as a territory.

[SeekAndFind]

Sometimes, in an effort to support President Trump, people over-exaggerate the significance of a deal.

While the Greenland Deal is important, it is UNLIKE the Louisiana Purchase.

The Louisiana Purchase was a sovereignty transfer: France ceded 828,000 square miles of territory to the United States in 1803. Trump’s Greenland deal, by contrast, explicitly preserves Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self‑determination.

The Greenland Deal:

Amends and supplements the 1951 U.S.–Denmark defense treaty rather than replacing it.

Expands U.S. basing rights (e.g., Pituffik modernization, new bases at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig).

Grants the U.S. a veto over certain foreign investments in Greenland’s critical sectors.

Adds new categories of military access (e.g., unmanned installations, undersea access).

States no sovereignty is transferred — a point Denmark and Greenland emphasized repeatedly.

This is control without ownership — a defense‑access expansion, not territorial acquisition.

Greenland’s government stated that its constitutional future “belongs to Greenlanders alone.”

A purchase or annexation is politically impossible.

It is a strategic defense agreement layered onto a 75‑year‑old treaty, giving the U.S. expanded military access and influence — but no territory.

[alexander_busek]

"It’s the new Louisiana Purchase. Because we get a continent, an island that’s one-third the size of the continental U.S."

Greenland's total area: 0.836 million square miles (2.17 million km²).

Continental U.S. (which, by definition, includes Alaska): 3.7 million sq. miles (9.6 million km²⁾

Contiguous U.S. (which excludes Alaska; i.e., the Lower 48): 3.12 million square miles (8.1 million km²)

Greenland is thus well under one-quarter the size of the continental U.S. - though it is slightly more than one-quarter of the contiguous U.S.

A gross exaggeration to say that it is one-third the size of even only the Lower 48!

Regards,

[Salman]

But are we going to send settlers there who will build great cities?

[Honorary Serb]

The Louisiana Purchase added thousands of acres of fertile, useful and habitable land to the USA, including two very great river systems.

The Greenland deal—not so much!