This is getting super fucking ridiculous. And, of course, President Musk has weighed in:
Also Monday, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and a close advisor to the President-elect, said on X, the social media site he owns, that “The People of Greenland should decide their future and I think they want to be part of America!”
At least one Greenlander MP has a good response:
Aaja Chemnitz, a member of Greenland’s parliament wrote in a post on Facebook that people in Greenland need to get better at saying no to the President-elect, writing that it is “incredible that some can be so naive to think happiness is made by us becoming American citizens” and that she doesn’t “want to be a piece of Trump’s hot dreams of expanding his empire to include our country.”
“Don’t let Trump control the Greenland election campaign and leave the population as losers in that game,” Chemnitz wrote.
Trump isn’t being kept busy with Greenland, Trump is keeping the news cycle busy.
It’s “wag the dog”, and has been a standard GOP ploy for years now. Like how he banned trans folks from the military during his impeachment hearings, right when they were talking about the Magnitsky Act and how it impacted Putin and Trump.
No one thinks it’s going to happen, it’s to keep everyone distracted as he takes office and starts dismantling things and consolidating power. If it actually could happen they’ll cross that bridge when they come to it.