Morning Jolt: Trump’s Greenland New Deal

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY

December 26 2024

On the menu today: I doubt it will ever come to pass, but sometimes President-elect Trump is like a dog with a bone — he just keeps going at it. With just 25 days until Inauguration Day, Trump is bringing up his dream of purchasing the giant, sparsely populated, mineral-rich, and darn cold island of Greenland from Denmark. There's simultaneously a genuine U.S. geopolitical advantage at stake — but also a sparsely-populated, vast frozen island whose economy is currently dependent upon subsidies from Denmark.

Here We Know That Christmas Will Be Greenland and Bright . . .

On Christmas Day, President-elect Trump shared on Truth Social his wishes for a merry Christmas "to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will! . . .”

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