Posted on 01/11/2026 4:19:32 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Trump administration officials are set to meet with Danish officials about Greenland on Wednesday, diplomatic sources tell CBS News.
The meeting, which has not been officially announced, comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last week that President Trump is interested in purchasing the Danish territory. The White House also said Tuesday officials are discussing a wide range of options for acquiring Greenland, including using the U.S. military to take it by force.
While Rubio had downplayed the threat of military force in his remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump doubled down on the possibility Friday, saying, "I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way."
Sen. Tim Kaine, who met with Danish officials last week, said on Sunday that he thinks Democrats and Republicans in Congress would unite to stop any military action aimed at taking Greenland. "We're not going to do it the hard way, and we're not going to do it the easy way," he said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
"Either we're going to continue to work with Denmark as a sovereign nation that we're allied with, and we're not going to treat them as an adversary or as an enemy," the Democrat said.
Mr. Trump told the New York Times in an interview published last week that ownership of Greenland, the world's largest island, was important because "that's what I feel is psychologically needed for success." Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he feels the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland for defense purposes.
The escalatory language by the president in recent weeks has further stressed already strained relations with European allies.
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Trump is a great believer in ‘keeping momentum’, on rapidly following on prior successes. I think that is why he wants this now, to strike while the iron is hot.
While Rubio had downplayed the threat of military force in his remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump doubled down on the possibility Friday, saying, “I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop,_bad_cop
Good cop, bad cop, also informally called the Mutt and Jeff technique,[1] is a psychological tactic used in interrogation and negotiation, in which a team of two people take opposing approaches to the subject.[2] One interrogator adopts a hostile or accusatory demeanor, emphasizing threats of punishment, while the other adopts a more sympathetic demeanor, emphasizing reward, in order to convince the subject to cooperate.[3] It is an instance of the Reid technique.[4]
https://slate.com/culture/2013/07/good-cop-bad-cop-routine-real-life-history-pop-culture-examples-and-effectiveness-as-interrogation-tactic.html
But the earliest pop-culture examples of the routine predate television. In the 1912 D.W. Griffith short The Burglar’s Dilemma, two detectives simultaneously play “hot and cold” with a burglar to comic effect. And the oldest name we could find for the tactic comes not from cop shows or from police manuals, but from a comic strip: Prior to any of the printed usages that we dug up of “good cop, bad cop,” there are multiple references to the “Mutt and Jeff routine,” an allusion to the bumbling main characters of the eponymous comic strip, first published in 1907. (The lanky Mutt is a scheming but foolish horse-race gambler while Jeff is a stodgy insane asylum inmate who also loves the races.) Within a few decades of the strip’s debut, their names were used to describe what we now think of as “good cop, bad cop.” A 1940 book on police interrogation calls it “one of the oldest devices in police work,” in which one officer takes the role of the “kindly, stumbling fellow who is always taking the side of the suspect,” while the other played the “tough, relentless” interrogator.
We’re about to get Greenland, aren’t we?
Let the people of Greenland decide….independence, US territorial status, or the Danish crown.
When President Trump was re-elected I thought he was kidding about renaming the Gulf of Mexico, “The Gulf of America.” I think he’s very serious about this.
“Diplomatic “sources” tell CBS”?
Who’s spilling the beans?
What it amounts to is EU says they “will help us” defend Greenland…….just like they’ve helped with Ukraine.
We don’t meed that kind of “help.”
That creep Tim Kaine ran to undermine us with Denmark. Another scumbag democrat traitor.
Negotiations, which have gone on for some time now, are nearing a critical stage.
It seems clear that President Trump wants his legacy to be a total reset of the current world order and a return to the old world order with the United States on top and indisputably running the show.
He's enforcing the Monroe Doctrine in kicking Maduro out of power, putting China on notice to stay TF out of our hemisphere, and letting Cuba know that the days of Fidelism are coming to an end. And in Iran, he's going to see to it that Khomeinism is finished.
And he's doing this blindingly fast.
I once accused a duo of running an “Amos and Andy” routine on me. Guess that was politically incorrect.
He's enforcing the Monroe Doctrine in kicking Maduro out of power, putting China on notice to stay TF out of our hemisphere, and letting Cuba know that the days of Fidelism are coming to an end. And in Iran, he's going to see to it that Khomeinism is finished.
The old world order began when we propped up the British Empire by intervening in WWI.
It ended with Donald Trump getting reelected in 2024.
The EU demanded us to intervene in Ukraine to help Zelensky.
Not in our national interest. And not our job.
I'm sure that Trump is warning Zelensky to wrap things up. If he refuses to make concessions, obviously we will cut off Ukraine which means we will stop sending them weapons to keep the government afloat in Kyiv.
The EU had made the decision to ally with the Democratic Party so this is my guess why we are seeing things shaken up right now.
If the EU had decided to stay in their own lane, I think none of this would have been happening in the first place.
The term “blindingly fast” is used to describe something that is extremely fast or quick. It can refer to physical speed, such as a car moving at a high rate, or to the rapidity of growth or development. For example, “The company’s profits grew blindingly fast in the last quarter”. The word “blindingly” conveys a sense of extreme brightness or clarity, making the speed or action almost unbelievable.
conveys a sense of extreme brightness or clarity, making the speed or action almost unbelievable.
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He won’t invade Greenland. If he does, he will be impeached, and he will be convicted. And rightfully so.
"You don't buy me out. I buy you out" 
Better keep an eye out for that guy.
Trump said Greenland’s defense system is two dogsleds. 😏
Seriously folks, you would think that after all this time the Europeans would finally understand how President Trump manipulates the media cycle and gets them to do exactly what he wants – while they and the majority of their constituents think it’s exactly the opposite. This stuff is just too funny now.
According to European media outlets, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in discussions with Germany and France to send a NATO alliance to Greenland to establish a stronger NATO military footprint. {LINK}
The media present this, hilariously, as if European NATO is going to defend Greenland against President Trump and the USA military. {{INSERT SEVERAL LAUGHING EMOJIS HERE}} I mean, think about it rationally.
The U.K, France and Germany are unwilling to send troops into Ukraine without the protection of the U.S. military. But somehow, for some reason, the U.K, France and Germany are going to send troops to Greenland to defend against the U.S. military.
The narrative sounds silly when put into context, right?
The reality is, for several years President Trump has been telling NATO they need to take the Arctic (Greenland) seriously and position more strongly against encroachment by China and Russia. European NATO has not responded with urgency to the requests of President Trump… because orange man bad.
So, President Trump starts talking about the U.S. taking aggressive unilateral action to secure Greenland as a strategic national security matter. Suddenly, ‘Voila!’ European NATO, under the auspices of defending their Denmark democracy, wakes up and says, ‘No, wait, you can’t just take Greenland, that’s bad.’ Then they assemble urgent talks to send EU NATO military resources to Greenland. Exactly what President Trump has been requesting to formerly deaf ears.
See how that works?
The entire dynamic is so funny, it is difficult not to laugh. It’s like being the only observer in a Candid Camera scenario when you know the entire group is being spoofed.
The former Dutch Chief of Defense, General Berlijn, even warns annexation of Greenland will cost the US its military bases in Europe. “Forget about Ramstein, Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Aviano, Alconbury, Lajes, Móron and Zaragoza,” he said.
As if forcing U.S. troops out of Germany is a threat.
Oh dear, you mean U.S. military can pull back from German bases? Cool. And the EU will step up their own military to defend their own continent? Again, super cool. Punish us with a good time, General Berlijn; please!
President Trump has pulled off the impossible
The current EU plan, and keep in mind – this is NOW the EU plan, is to increase NATO defense forces in/around Greenland and then expand their own military in Europe so they can kick out the USA.
Perfect.
Now, we all know that Europe will never do the last part of that; especially when these same voices are demanding that President Trump protect and defend their troops in Ukraine. However, just reading about how they are talking about it is beyond funny.
Only President Donald J. Trump could achieve this masterstroke of geopolitical maneuvering, ending with him getting exactly what he wants and exactly what the EU previously didn’t want, while the EU proclaim it is their intention to give Trump what he wants by fighting against him.
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.
EUROPE – […] In a joint statement, the leaders of the European nations stressed that it was for Denmark and Greenland to decide on the future of the vast, frozen territory. and that they would defend its borders.
They spoke out after Trump said he wants to gain control of the autonomous Danish territory now.
[…] They emphasised that security in the Arctic must be achieved “collectively”, in conjunction with Nato allies including the US, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, “including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders”.
They added: “These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.
“The United States is an essential partner in this endeavor, as a Nato ally and through the defense agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951.”
The statement was signed by Sir Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark. (Source)
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