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(53,765 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)sheshe2
(83,746 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)he's thinking of Bowling Green land.
JCMach1
(27,556 posts)to the new US Territory of MAGAland
Good plan!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)Just a conspiracy theory, but maybe Denmark is keeping Big Oil from exploring/exploiting some areas off of Greenland?
More likely though, it probably is a Trump vanity project so that he can say, "I made the U.S.A. BIGGER", because we all know Trump's preoccupation with size.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)He probably thinks that's where they filmed "Lord of the Rings"
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Ha
42bambi
(1,753 posts)courses and maga towers!
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)The weather is nice there. That's why they call it Greenland.
Now it would be silly to buy a cold, glacier covered place like Iceland...
RobinA
(9,888 posts)too, so they probably have lots of it!
BannonsLiver
(16,369 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)Gå fuck dig selv Amerika!
BannonsLiver
(16,369 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Lots of pure blooded White people there, that likely gives Trump a hardon.
On edit: maybe not White, more mix of Inuit and Northern European blood.
former9thward
(31,981 posts)The population of Greenland is only 56,000. 88% Inuit and 12% Danish heritage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)There is one country in that area of the world that geneticists study because it has so little mixing of bloodlines (important because it allows study of how some diseases are prevented by genetic biodiversity)
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)former9thward
(31,981 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)of Northern European with very little bloodline from other parts of Europe or the from the rest of the world. I thought that it was Greenland, but I was wrong on that.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I was there last spring. Because there is so little genetic variation they are undertaking a huge genetic study to map the genome of a large percentage of the population. With that data they have already made several discoveries about genetic drift over time. It could have major implications about preventing and treating genetic disorders.
Iceland has an app that allows a man and woman who are interested in each other to determine early on if the are too closely related to safely have kids. Because it is necessary! Hell, their last names change every generation. Their phone book is by first name!
Many if not most can trace their ancestors back nearly 1000 years.
The wife and I loved it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)population is Inuit. 88% are Greenlandic Inuit (including Danish-Inuit mixed). The remaining 12% of people are of European descent, mainly Greenland Danes.
75% of the island nation is covered by an ice sheet and the average daily temperature of Nuuk (Greenland's capital and largest city) varies over the seasons from ?8 to 7 °C (18 to 45 °F). Hardly a place to set up a golf course or a high-end resort.
The only reason I can think of why he would be interested in Greenland is because there is a ton of unexploited natural resources under all that ice. "Greenland is abundant in minerals. Mining of ruby deposits began in 2007. Other mineral prospects are improving as prices are increasing. These include iron, uranium, aluminium, nickel, platinum, tungsten, titanium, and copper. Despite resumption of several hydrocarbon and mineral exploration activities, it will take several years before hydrocarbon production can materialize. The state oil company Nunaoil was created to help develop the hydrocarbon industry in Greenland. The state company Nunamineral has been launched on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange to raise more capital to increase the production of gold, started in 2007." [Wikipedia]
However, as far as I know, the country is not for sale and whose money would he use to buy it with even if it was? Is he planning to use taxpayer money so that a bunch of fat-cat industrialists can get rich by exploiting the island's natural resources? Is that where we are at now?
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)in rock that litter the Artic sea surfaces. The amount is said to be enormous. That is one reason why Russia is being aggressive there. My guess is that China is also snooping around up there too, likely through working with Greenland's government.
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)maybe like the Klondike, Canada Rush the grandfather followed 1891
Captain Zero
(6,802 posts)To Russian Oligarchs, and Chinese dictators. With him and a few other Americans as minority partners in their corporation. Uses the presidency to use taxpayer funds to buy it. Uses his friendly contacts to collect a broker's commission. Biggest emolument scam ever. I scare myself how i can think like an oligarch.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If Trump is interested in Greenland, there has to be something in it for him and his family.
Denmark would have to be foolish to relinquish influence in Greenland. Even if Trump tried to buy it with USA money, there likely would be a bidding war with the EU or Canada/EU.
Takket
(21,560 posts)localroger
(3,626 posts)Buy a lot of land nobody wants cheap, cause a catastrophe to befall a lot of innocent people which makes that land much more valuable, and profit!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)warming, or rather the impact of global warming. And Trump will definitely be dead. He's got one foot in the grave as it is.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)Fuck him.
localroger
(3,626 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,237 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)onenote
(42,695 posts)Truman proposed the same thing in 1946 and the Danes shot him down.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)This asshole needs to go. NOW.