I Can’t Assure You

Question on Greenland and Panama Canal: "Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion?

President-Elect Trump: "No...I can't assure you on either of those two. We need them for economic security..." pic.twitter.com/zJ8Fb67ZrX

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 7, 2025

Denmark previously sold us what are now known as the US Virgin Islands in 1917...Greenland next?

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 7, 2025

IMO, people are missing the message Trump is sending about Greenland. Russia, the EU, and China are not missing it since it's directed at them. Trump is saying loud and clear that Greenland is not for sale. He is staking the US claim. Whether that ultimately ends with…

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) January 7, 2025

… Greenland becoming officially part of the US or not is irrelevant. He is saying the US will not allow it to fall under a Russian or China sphere of influence, nor will he allow it to fall under a leftist EU sphere of influence.

It's basically Trump's version of the Monroe doctrine as opposed to globalism.

This press conference is off the hook. Trump is laying out a new American order to end the new world order.

OMG. This is amazing.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) January 7, 2025