Trump tells Jr we need to take over Greenland because there are "ships sailing around and they're not the right ships"

[highplainsdem]

Trump calls in and Junior puts him on speaker. He says we need to take over Greenland because there are “ships sailing around and they’re not the right ships.”

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T15:40:46.252Z

[Blue_Tires]

1. What the fuck does that even mean?!

I swear Trumpers literally make shit up as they go... It's their one undeniable talent.

[underpants]

5. Contact high from all the white powder there

[Renew Deal]

6. It's all of the information he can retain from a more detailed discussion

It likely means China, Russia, or both

[ananda]

7. He means ours and Russia's moving oil.

Trump and Putin want to rule the ship lanes
through arctic waters, due to climate change.

[Blue_Tires]

15. They can't even understand how tariffs work

What makes them experts on shipping lanes all of a sudden? 🤨

[ananda]

17. You don't have to be an expert to want something.

They want the lanes to control the oil passing through
arctic waters.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Meanwhile, in 10 years we've never heard a peep from Donnie

About what's happening in the South China Sea...

Oh, but now he's all ready to go to war with Denmark or whoever 😒

[ananda]

20. Trump himself will not be in charge of these things.

Whatever he says is just Trumpspeak for ideas and policies
that others will craft and carry out.

[Blue_Tires]

21. Pinheads and incompetents

Wouldn't trust those beefwits to order pizza delivery without fucking it up

[ananda]

22. And a military heirarchy just as crazy and sycophantic.

What a weird world we live in now.

[Blue_Tires]

23. Hey, folks wanted the clown and his circus back in town

And that's exactly what they fucking got... Is America not entertained?!

[ananda]

25. Some of it is pretty funny.

But when the ringmasters take over, it won't
be.

[Blue_Tires]

33. I don't find any of this the slightest bit funny...

[FSogol]

26. It won't be funny when their kids are drafted to the front lines in Ittoqqortoormiit.

[atreides1]

30. There will parades and "patriotism"

Until those flag draped silver boxes come into Dover, then the reality will hit.

[FalloutShelter]

28. Putin has LONG had designs on Greenland.

Shocker right?

[CrispyQ]

32. And when Greenland melts, the rich will have a new, unspoiled playground without any offending riffraff.

The human collective is in denial about what's coming. Some of us aren't but not enough of us.

[John Farmer]

18. It's unrealistic to expect them to make sense most of the time.

[Johonny]

2. We need left handed ships!

[sop]

3. If Trump is this far gone even before taking office, imagine what he'll be like in a year or two.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Don't look at me

Everyone wanted the clown and his circus of incompetent lackeys back in power so we could be entertained, and that's exactly what we're getting...

[Ocelot II]

4. Well, that settles it, then. Gotta buy Greenland.

In his incoherent and ignorant fashion he may be referring to the opening of sea lanes in the far north as the result of climate change, which means there are ships going past Greenland that didn't used to go there. But those ships are sailing in international waters, so how does he think he could stop the "wrong" ships by buying Greenland? Which, by the way, is still not for sale.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Unless other countries start pushing back, Trump is just going to go ahead with his plans.

[Ocelot II]

9. Denmark is pushing back, hard.

They even changed their coat of arms to emphasize Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Denmark is small but it's a member of NATO. If Trump tries to take over Greenland somehow because Denmark won't sell it, the other NATO countries would be obligated to defend it, and that could get very messy.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. And it looks like there is enough support in Greenland to join the EU.

[Ocelot II]

12. Denmark is already a member, but since Greenland is a self-governing territory

it was able to opt out. It might be in its better interests now to opt in. Interestingly, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland have also declined to join the EU though they have other treaty agreements. And, of course, the UK recently brexited itself out, which doesn't seem to be working out very well for them.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. From what I understand of my young little friends from England,

Brexit messed their country up. They picked up sticks and moved to Australia. I just saw their New Year's Eve celebration photos. They were on a beach with sparklers with members from their community that embraced them right away.

So happy for them.

But as a sidenote: This is the reason I will reluctantly leave Facebook. Until someone comes up with a better option. Maybe someone should buy Meta?

[Progressive dog]

10. But he didn't say

they were the wrong ships.
At least I got a good laugh. Thanks

[Ilsa]

13. So Don-old wants to escalate Russian boat patrols

to near-war status by launching American ships from Greenland? He doesn't know if our Navy can travel that far to monitor them? Somebody call retired Admiral James Stavridis, please.

[Emile]

24. How will we know if he has dementia?

[Clouds Passing]

27. He means that the ships are not his floating line of dump casinos.

[TommieMommy]

29. OMG he makes no sense 😡😡😡

[DFW]

31. Greenland is an island, and Trump is alarmed because there are ships sailing around.

If he doesn’t like ships sailing around an island, maybe instead of a wall on the Rio Grande, he should build a bridge to either Jylland or to Newfoundland.

By the way, there is air above North America, and there are planes flying around. Better get on that, too.