The plan would replace the $600 million in subsidies Denmark gives the island each year
The Donald Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the island.
The possibility would seek to replace the $600 million Denmark gives the territory in subsidies every year, and has stopped being mere rhetoric to become official U.S. policy, according to The New York Times.
The outlet detailed that the plan already includes several cabinet departments and that the White House’s National Security Council has met several times to advance on it, recently sending specific instructions to different offices.
Why do we need Greenland? Is it so we can easily attack Russia or something? Isn’t Alaska pretty fucking close? Like what is the reason for annexing Greenland?
Mineral rights and control of what will be a major shipping route as the North opens up due to climate change.
Fuck that’s insane. Makes perfect sense but holy shit. I fucking hate this planet and this country even more.
$1m would be insulting.
$10k is beyond insulting. That’s probably one the cheapest entry fees to one of his disgusting Mar-a-Lago fundraisers.
Trump really has a knack for insulting people. He’s basically saying “You’re worth a fifth of a Tesla car”. How cheap can you be…How cheap can you be…
Cheap and tacky.
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1This demonstrates how he thinks - He’s obviously getting paid by Putin to destroy America, so he thinks everybody else is just like him. Offer enough money, and theyll sell out their country, too. He has no conception of patriotism or loyalty to his country.
I’d promise him anything he wants, take his money (after jacking it up to a million bucks), then immediately betray him. Everybody in his country should do that. Whats he going to do, sue me for not being a traitor? He can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
That’s a visit to a US hospital
A single visit
for a warm blanket and a Tylenol
Lucky
How about if he threw in the Tesla’s with poor quality and no craftsmanship? Y’know to boost all those American manufacturing jobs, and the mechanics, and Elon’s tax subsidized billions.
Even for free I honestly don’t think I could do it. And I live in California where fucking everyone has a Tesla. I’d sell it if I thought I could I guess.
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Ten thousand US dollar as personal money for leaving democracy and entering a dictatorship (or at least an autocracy)? Err…
I’m in the US, where’s my $10,000?
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They already get $10k from Denmark every year, so they’d get nothing in comparison.
Art of the deal 🥴
Explain to me more about this $10k from denmark. Does denmark have some amount of UBI?
For giving up public healthcare for one
“We’ll give you ten grand for the opportunity to be deported to an El Salvadoran prison if we don’t like you. It’s a great deal!”
And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.
The money isn’t for you to spend though, it’s for your relocation. Because you WILL be sent to El Salvador.
One could even say that’s an art of a deal, ay?
Even flight ticket is free.
The plan would replace the $600 million in subsidies Denmark gives the island each year
A quick google tells me Greenland has a population of ~57,000. At $10k per resident, that’s $570 million.
On money alone, his offer is less than what they already receive, and unless he’s pitching for some sort of UBI it’ll be a one-time payment instead of annual. Is this the art of the deal they keep talking about?
The right-wing tactic of dismantling a program or getting a discount by offering lump sum cash up front, instead of better value in programs and services.
They prey on desperate, uneducated people who see the money in front of them.
Desperate is the right word, and I think they’re intending to make people more desperate in order to exert control.
I’m not saying a $10k gift would be life-changing, but it would pay off a significant amount of my debt, freeing up a lot of my monthly cash flow.
Ok so as a nation Denmark accepts the offer and let’s assume everyone gets their $10k, pays off some debts, buys some luxuries, has a holiday, banks a decent amount. What about the negatives? For example now healthcares no longer free. Seems like it would cost more than you’d gain.
Oh definitely. I think they’re being offered a horrible deal. But I can see how some might be inclined to take the shitty deal if their current financial situation is in fact one of desperation. I hope their citizens are in better shape than Americans.
It’s like Brexit…didn’t matter how much time people spent pointing out the negatives, there’s still people that bought into it, for numerous reasons.
Not gonna lie, this is kinda how I’m watching the subsidies on chinese EV.
Now, would I want to pay taxes to export European cars to the rest of the world? Hell no.
So I’m quite confused
Also, Denmark subsides are probably in Euros. So it’s already 5% higher just on Trump’s first 3 months.
Denmark actually isn’t part of the eurozone and uses its own currency, Danish krone
Interestingly, the value of the Danish krone is pegged to the value of the euro, meaning the job of the national bank is to ensure a more or less constant exchange rate of 1€ = 7.45DKK.
So when the euro performs well, the krone performs well.
10k to get lost, it’s unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.
This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off. There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.
It’s going to cost more than that just to hire movers that will transport outside the country. It doesn’t even come close to what it would cost to set up a new life somewhere else.
On top of this, Denmark had been doing this every year. The only thing you can count on Trump doing every year is to change his mind and ask you if you’ve said thank you for it.
That’s assuming that they pay out.
10k of MY FUCKING TAX MONEY, you stupid ape!
McDonald’s do your job already. This is getting ridiculous.
The Simpsons predicted him dying tomorrow.
That was fake, unfortunately.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/simpsons-predict-trumps-death/
Fuck sake, I’ve been waiting for tomorrow.
10,000 * 56,583 ~= 566 million < 600 million.
Bruh, he doesn’t even want to pay out the annual subsidy once.
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Shut the fuck up. Enough.
Not you, MicroWave. The Republican president.
But a UBI would be economically unviable.
Lmao ok.
“A Trump never pays hus bills”
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.
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.
Buying votes that’s what it is
Hang on, so it’s literally to get the people of Greenland to leave Greenland?
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.
10k to live in a dictatorship, or wait 6 months and stay in a sane country? He’s stupider every day.
It’s a get lost payment, not a welcome to the USA bonus …
Given what Trump is doing to the American economy, it might be better to offer Chinese Yuan.
No.
