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.
The fuck?! As if Kalaaliit culture is worth only 10K to each person. US can get stuffed. Culture is priceless.
If it makes you feel any better, America doesn’t care about their culture and only wants their natural resources and strategic location. Oh wait, that probably won’t make you feel better.
The culture will be immediately outlawed, too woke. What you’re confusing for culture is actually South American gang activity.
He spent 250k for banging stormy Daniel’s.
- at least
fotgot legal fees, so x10 that.
Think about all the fucking starbucks you can buy with $10k! That’s like a coffee and bagel everyday for a year. Fucking startbucks man! C’mon it’ll be great
Right? I’m American and even I wouldn’t take that deal. Mind you I’d take the money, but then if you want me off my land you’re going to have to have a conversation with Mr. Glock.
Mr Glock, Mr FAL, Mr M2 Browning… choices could be endless :)
Nice. I just have a G19gen4, a heavily-customized AR15 that a gunsmith friend built and tuned specifically for me, and a Saiga 12g (with the crazy Latvian slugs that shoot through engine blocks.) I feel like they cover all the bases. ;)
Would that even pay for the first year of medical insurance that you will need?
The insurance? Sure, it would easily cover that.
The cost of medical care, even with insurance? Not even close.
My employer paid 26k last year, for their portion of my insurance.
I paid 235/month for it.
No lol not even close the way they charge for private insurance
No, and you would still have out of pocket costs.
That won’t even cover the costs of moving to a non-fascist country.
Lol yeah 10k in american healthcare is like 1 insulin shot 💀
Fuck you revolting jackass. How’s about you spend 10k per person on healthcare and housing subsidies.
“America First!” -> garbage $600,000,000 bribe to Greenland citizens
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600k? You dropped some zeros there. It’s $600,000,000.
He’d have to go a lot higher than 10k p.p. to even make them consider it, so that’d be billions. Luckily he has millions of tax payers who can fund his little obsession!
If he doesn’t actually know how much a hamberder costs any amount above the cup of covfefe is just as imaginary. Don’t know why everyone’s so upset about the value of the currency dropping, just release a meme coin and sell it all off.
“The party of small government”. Tries to gobble up neighbours and allies.
Typical out of touch rich boomer thinking. That anyone can be bought. That everything is a matter of cost.
Or that 10k is remotely enough.
And he’ll totally get that money out to you any day now. The check is in the mail.
two weeks, tops
Real pro move is Greenland makes completely open borders, offers to bring anyone up there who wants to move to the US and make them citizens of Greenland and then get an agreement that every Greenland citizen has to immediately become a US citizen.
US should pay at least 5 million to each person. That is how much Trump is selling his gold card visa anyway.
When Greenlanders don’t want to vote on it? Also if there was a vote does a simple majority count. Maybe 2/3. Or 90%? Or 100%? Does the US constitution allow for separatism despite Texas?
$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…
the fucking plastic boxes salads and soggy burgers on ornate silver trays is just sooooooooooooo… i don’t even have the words
Apparently Trump is absolutely fucking terrified of people poisoning his food. It’s why he eats like shit - random fast food is harder to poison.
More up to date:
Red tie to match all them red stocks
Cheap and tacky.
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.
I got cold-called by one of those “We’ll buy your house!” scam outfits one time asking if I was interested in selling my modest single-story, two bedroom / one bathroom house.
Me: Not really!
Them: Well, if you were going to, what price would you hope to get?
Me: You know what, let’s say five million dollars.
Them: Uh… is this the house at [my address]?
Me: Sure is!
Them: And… five million? You’re firm on that?
Me: Well, anything is negotiable, of course. I’ve got to go now, bye!
And I just really hope that I wasted a little bit more of their time that day, but if someone were to make a horrible paperwork error and accidentally offer me five million dollars for a house worth a fraction of that, that’s really on them, I’d say.
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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And we’re paying for it.
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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This would be funny if it wasn’t so depressing.
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?
They run a large budget deficit each year which Denmark subsidises out of historical obligation, since they subjugated Greenland. Fair enough I say.
Greenland is largely independent on internal policies and have their own laws, but still technically part of Denmark.
This is my laymen’s explanation.
I think that’s pretty accurate
My understanding is that these are government to government subsidies, not government to people subsidies. That’s quite different from what the usa is offering
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”.
this shit is funny af LOL
And wear a suit.
The money isn’t for you to spend though, it’s for your relocation. Because you WILL be sent to El Salvador.
Even flight ticket is free.
One could even say that’s an art of a deal, ay?
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.
I have very little debt and no savings, but a 10k gift would only pay for like 2-3 months of living. That’s not enough for me to sell out my fellow countrypeople and give up my most basic rights.
Hell even a million wouldn’t be enough for me to agree to be American at this point.
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.
That’s assuming that they pay out.
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.
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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