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Even $5 million would probably be cheaper than what it would cost to take it by force.
10k of MY FUCKING TAX MONEY, you stupid ape!
McDonald's do your job already. This is getting ridiculous.
10k is a car repair bill.
So, Greenlanders...is this your price? A one-time $10k pay-off, to purchase your loyalty to the King of America?
My price is $1 million, and Skum's public execution streamed on the Internet.
Then I'd vote against it.
It would be to be per year to match Denmark's contribution and I don't believe anyone would trust to pay his debts.
A Trump NEVER pays his debts.
Unlike himself, he won't follow through
Denmark's Novo Nordisk had $44.1B revenue last year ($15.2B net), largely from us fatass Americans and Ozempic.
I think they can outbid the fatass with his own money (he's on it).
At my last job, I started shortly after the union had negotiated a one-time payout of $500 for every associate, at the cost of the $2000+ bonuses department heads received yearly. The savings for the company were immense of course, because the recurring cost of paying bonuses was gone. And the masses were happy to vote for a free (as far as they were concerned) $500 payment. I still find myself wondering how many yay votes ended up as department heads down the line and realized how utterly stupid that was. But most won't have done, and simply got free money.
I'm not sure that tactic could possibly work here - there would have to be a contingent of people who actually wanted that in the first place - and as far as I can tell, no Greenlander even wants to touch the US with a 1,300 mile pole.
For anyone who voted for Trump because your cost of living is too high... How y'all feeling about this?
Trump wants to give everyone in Greenland $10k. Where's your $10k? What the actual fuck has this guy done to help you out so far?
How is it that DOGE has to force your grandma to walk to an office for her social security because a phone line was too expensive, but Trump has money to throw $600m a year at this?
Nobody said per year. That 10k is so they can get the fuck off americas new playground. One time.
Buying votes that's what it is
Granted, I assumed yearly, because this is apparently supposed to replace a yearly benefit that Greenland receives from Denmark.
Even if it is only one time, that's still a lot of money that Trump seems to want to throw at something completely frivolous, rather than making a difference to the lives of Americans. Can't see how that feels good for anyone who is struggling with the price of eggs.
lol .... as if .... he's the kind of scam artist that would tell everyone that would agree to this deal that the money is in the mail and will appear at their house in a month ... then the next month, then next year ... then once they take over the country, no one is getting any money
Anyone that believes a word coming from this orange bean bag salesman deserves to be ripped off
Fucking LOL.
Greenlanders: if he’s handing you money, take it I guess, and then in the referendum I assume would be required here, vote “fuck no”.
Why is he so interested in Greenland? Is it just the natural resources?
The natural resources, a tacit admission that Global Warming is real, continued control over a strategic area even after completely fucking over the perfectly good allies the US has now, and even though it's under the second largest ice sheet in the world, the island is just a tiny bit larger than the Louisiana Purchase, so I'm sure there's a huge ego factor.
I suppose it's a relief they're not talking about invading (for now), but Jesus what beatdown this all is.
DOGE gonna cut this waste?
WTF!!
What a moronic proposal, as it is, Denmark is helping them with much more than that each year.
Greenland only has 56.669 inhabitants, giving everyone including children would only amount to 567 million!!
In direct Regional financial support alone Denmark is sending about 600 million USD per year.
And that's apart from paying for instance police and military support.
And Greenland is tax exempt too!!
What a demeaning cheapskate offer.
I believe Greenland should have the right to decide for themselves.
But as a Dane, I find that offer insulting!
You don't even need to be Danish to find that offer insulting.
Hey but you get to live under the control of the Orange Turd! What a deal.
Greenland should say “we’re interested, but we’d need statehood and voting representatives in the house and Senate” - which would effectively end GOP control of the Senate for a generation.
If he tries anything like this in Canada I very much hope our leaders don't say that. Those of us who haven't fallen into the MAGA black hole don't ever want to be part of the USA, even with representation in their rotten system of government. I'm fairly sure Greenlanders would feel similarly.
Given what Trump is doing to the American economy, it might be better to offer Chinese Yuan.
I haven't read Fart of the Meal or whatever it's called, but I feel like asking Greenlanders what it would take for them to want to be annexed may be a better (but still not good) way to broach the subject. And, if they say there's nothing at all the US can offer them, then take that as a blatant hint to back the fuck off.