Apparently the writing on the wall isn’t going to be visible to them until it’s in blood.
I’m just sorry Elon hasn’t made it possible to go live on Mars yet, because I’d like to spend the next four years in a coma in a cave there.
Remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”?
I like the way it rolls off the tongue.
They got the order of the Russian flag wrong, they are giving Greenland away to the Netherlands! 
Or perhaps Luxemburg: 
ETA: Or maybe they got confused believing the Prince of Orange meant something tanTrumpian, the fools!
Or France, or maybe just Cleveland.
We don’t have the people to manage it, but we’d be happy to resell it.
I can’t decide!
Trump: What color is “cleve”?
Trump: I thought we already had a “cleveland”?
Usha Vance and, more ominously, U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, are planning to visit Greenland this week.
Google translate of comments by Múte Bourup Egede, the outgoing Greenland prime minister:
Surely they need a visa to get in, or does that only apply to us unwashed?
ETA, it seems a 90 day stay is visa free for the US visitors. More is the pity, it’s as if the US and Denmark are not ALREADY in a serious diplomatic dispute. Refusal of entry would be… lækker (trans: “delicious”)
Waltz perhaps only is traveling to our military base, so his passport may never be presented for stamping or, potentially, refusal of admission.
But both Waltz and Vance, despite rudely showing up without a diplomatic invitation, will be admitted, as to do otherwise would be daring Trump to retaliate. The idea of risking retaliation only sounds good if you are not the national leader putting your country at risk for a brief delicious feeling.
Buy a couple of fog machines and claim the airport is closed due to bad visibility.
Alternatively: Could local air traffic control make the plane land on a melting iceberg, long enough to land safely but too short to take off again?
The thing that really gets me is that the USA already control Greenland, have military bases there, and can pretty much do as they please there.
AFAIK, the US only has one base there, the Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base) and it’s way up in the northwest corner, a long ways from the capital and main population areas. The US can do pretty much anything they want at the base, but that doesn’t apply elsewhere.
But that base is also the only strategic value Greenland has. The population centers still aren’t populous enough to really matter.
I don’t know what a main population area is in your view, but the whole of Greenland has an estimated population of 57,000, not all of them native. Including the US-Americans in that base.
And the other base is abandoned, but was way cooler (no pun intended):
The US interrupted that experiment, but if they want to, they can start digging in the snow again, I am sure. Or at least they could have, a couple of weeks ago, when there was still good will and good faith.
Greenland’s Prime Minister – and no doubt the PM of Denmark, too, are furious about being symbolically invaded by JD Vance’s wife and the Orange Felon’s security adviser Mike Waltz. The White House claims that Usha Vance is there to watch Greenland’s national dogsled race and to spread sweetness and light. 
Yeah, sure. If she was interested in dogsled racing, the Iditarod was held in Alaska just couple of weeks ago. Why not stay in your own fucking benighted country and leave the Greenlanders alone. And they didn’t even try to explain what Mike Waltz was doing there. This is the advanced guard of the Ugly Americans, scoping out the new territory they’re about to steal.
I have to wonder - before this, how often did high-level US government officials and unofficial people like the Second Lady ever visit Greenland? I mean, it’s got the population of a smallish town, how many reasons could there be for people such as that to visit?
Okay, I googled a bit for stories from the before times, prior to Oct. 31, 2018. I found this:
Throughout the Arctic Council’s 20-year history, it has been difficult to get the U.S. fully engaged with the council’s work. The breakthrough came in Nuuk in 2011, when Hillary Clinton became the first U.S. Secretary of State to attend an Arctic Council meeting. Her successor, John Kerry, joined the meeting in Kiruna in 2013.
In 2015, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit Alaska. His trip took him to a number of villages north of the Arctic Circle and allowed him to meet with representatives from across the Arctic region, including Denmark’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen and Greenland’s foreign minister Vittus Qujaukitsoq. John Kerry visited Greenland six months later, emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the U.S., Greenland and Denmark.
So, it looks like two visits over the course of the 8 years before that date. Trump and his affiliated people have beaten that just since last December.
A quibble: Warren G. Harding was the first sitting president to visit Alaska. (It was the last thing he ever did.) I guess Obama must be the first sitting president to visit Alaska after it became a state.
This was shared by a FB friend:
A report on a recent meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, by a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, someone who was present in the room quoted below…
From a WH Reporter,
I’ve covered a lot of Donald Trump press conferences over the years. I’ve seen him lie, deflect, and embarrass himself in countless ways. But what I just witnessed in the Oval Office may have been the most off-the-rails, unhinged display yet.
Trump sat down with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — a serious figure there to talk about security and alliance unity — but Trump wasn’t interested in that. No, Trump used the opportunity to fantasize about annexing Canada. He actually said, “Canada only works as a state,” and gushed about how the U.S. would look on a map if we just erased the border and took Canada as our own. This wasn’t satire. This wasn’t a joke. This was the president rambling about absorbing another sovereign nation — while the NATO secretary general sat there watching this clown show unfold.
And it didn’t stop there. Trump started pushing the idea of conquering Greenland too, saying NATO might need to get involved in helping the U.S. take it over — as if it’s a game of Risk. He literally said we “need it for international security” and tried to rope NATO into his imperial fever dream. The look on Rutte’s face said it all.
Then, Trump pivoted to his usual bigotry. Instead of talking about defense cooperation or global security, Trump bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections — saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. In other words, he openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy. Despicable.
When asked about American small businesses hurting from tariffs, Trump did what he always does: lie and bluster. “You’re going to be so much richer,” he said. Meanwhile, Medicaid is being gutted, Social Security is under threat, and Trump’s billionaire cronies are cheering as the safety net burns.
Oh, and then Trump suggested we start sending drug dealers to the Netherlands — yes, you read that right — in a bizarre attempt at humor that landed more like a diplomatic insult, especially considering the NATO secretary general used to be the prime minister of the Netherlands.
He kept rambling about how the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada, said the European Union is “very nasty,” claimed we can’t sell cars in Europe (not true), and then told an utterly deranged story about how he “invaded Los Angeles” to turn on the water — another lie pulled from his fantasyland. What actually happened was that he diverted water from Northern California, destroying farmland and hurting his own voters in the process.
To top it off, he said our allies shouldn’t worry about Putin, brushing off any concerns about Russian aggression with a shrug.
Let me be blunt: This is not normal. This is not politics-as-usual. This is a dangerous, unstable person with authoritarian fantasies, spewing nonsense in front of our closest allies while the world watches.”
Keep speaking up. Don’t accept any of this as normal.
Ben Meiselas
Fun fact: my dad was in the Navy and spent six months in Thule during the original construction of the US air base (he wasn’t building; he was in one of the transport ships). He did not enjoy it - it was extremely boring and he had some sort of bad skin reaction to the climate.
Anyway - I’m thinking that right about now Trump is thinking about sending Mike Waltz there on a one-way ticket only.