This morning, President Donald Trump Met In Davos, Switzerland With World Leaders

Among the important subjects of this meeting was the question of whether the United States would take the world’s largest island, Greenland, by force.

The following is the transcript of that meeting and the comments of President Donald Trump:

“Ultimately, these are matters of national security, and perhaps no current issue makes the, uh, situation more clear than what’s currently going on with Greenland. Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland? I was gonna leave it out of the speech, but I thought, I think I would have been reviewed very negatively.

I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. 
Where great power, much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War II, when Denmark fell to Germany, after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.

So the United States was then compelled. We felt an obligation to do it. To send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory, and hold it we did, at great cost and expense, they didn’t have a chance of getting on it, and they tried. 
Denmark knows that. We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. 
We weren’t fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to save it. for Denmark. Big, beautiful piece of ice. 
It’s hard to call it land. It’s a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere.

So we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, we won it big without us. Right now, you’d all be speaking German and little Japanese, perhaps. 
After the war, we gave Greenland back… to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it.

But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now? So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before, because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can’t even talk about. 
Two weeks ago, there saw weapons that nobody ever heard of. They weren’t able to fire one shot at us. They said, What happened? 
Everything was discombobulated. They said, We’ve got him in our sights. Press the trigger, and nothing happened. 
No anti aircraft missiles went up. There was one that went up about 30 feet and crashed down right next to the people that sent it. They said, What the hell is going on?

Those… those defensive systems were made by Russia and by China. So they’re gonna go back to the drawing boards, I guess. Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. 
The sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia, and China. That’s exactly where it is, right smack in the middle. Wasn’t important, nearly, when we gave it back, you know, when we gave it back, wasn’t the same as it is now. 
It’s not important for any other reason, you know, to everyone talks about the manuals.

There’s so many, there’s so rare earth, no such thing as rare earth. There’s rare processing, but there’s so much rare earth than this to get to this rare earth. 
You got to go through hundreds of feet of ice. That’s not the reason we need it. We need it for strategic, national security, and international security. 
This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America. on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere. That’s our territory. It is, therefore, a core national security interest of the United States of America.

And, in fact, it’s been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere, and we’ve done it very successfully. We’ve never been stronger than we are now. That’s why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries, you know, for two centuries, they’ve been trying to do it. 
They should have kept it after World War II, but they had a different prison. Thats all right.

People think differently. 
Much more necessary now than it was at that time, however. In 2019, Denmark said that they would spend over 200 million dollars to strengthen Greenland’s defenses. But as you know, they spent less than 1% of that amount, 1%, is no sign of Denmark there. 
And I say that with great respect for Denmark, whose people I love, whose leaders are very good. It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it, and improve it, and make it so that it’s good for Europe and safe for Europe, and good for us.

And that’s the reason I’m seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States. 
Just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European nations have. They’ve acquired, there’s nothing wrong with it. Many of them, someone in reverse, actually, if you look, some had great vast wealth, great vast lands all over the world.

They went in reverse, they stuck back where they started, that happens, too. But some grow. But this would not be a threat to NATO. 
This would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance. The NATO Alliance, the United States is treated very unfairly by NATO. I want to tell you that.

And when you think about it, nobody can dispute it. We give so much, and we get so little in return. And I’ve been a critic of NATO for many years. 
And yet, I’ve done more to help NATO than any other president by far than any other person. You wouldn’t have NATO if I didn’t get involved in my first term. The war with Ukraine is an example.

We are thousands of miles away separated by a giant ocean. It’s a war that should have never started, and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren’t rigged. was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that they found out. 
People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It’s a rigged election. 
Can’t have rigged elections. You need strong borders, strong elections, and ideally a good press. I always say, strong borders, strong elections, free and fair elections, and fair media. 
The media’s terrible. It’s very… crooked. It’s very biased, terrible.

But someday, it’ll straighten out, because it’s losing all credibility. Think of it. When I went in a landslide, a giant landslide won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything. 
And they only get negative press. That means that it has no credibility. And if they’re gonna get credibility, they’re gonna have to be fair, so you need a fair press. 
But you also need those other elements, and, uh, I inherited a terrible, terrible situation. If you look, the border was open, the inflation was raging. Everything was bad with the United States when I came into office.

But I also inherited a mess with Ukraine and Russia, something that would have never happened. And I know Putin very well. He and I would discuss Ukraine. 
It was the apple of his eye, but he wasn’t gonna do anything. I said, Vladimir, you’re not doing it. He would never have done it. 
It was terrible what happened. I could see it happening, too. After I left, I could see it happening. 
Biden had given Ukraine and NATO $350 billion, staggering sum, $350 billion. I came in, and just like the southern border, just like inflation, just like our economy, I said, Wow, this place is in trouble, meaning our country. All of these things were out of control.

But the border was out of control. We fixed it with the strongest border anywhere in the world. And I’ve now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars, India, Pakistan. 
I mean, I settled other wars that were, Vladimir Putin called me, Armenian, Aber, Baijan. He said, I can’t believe you said all that one. They were going on for 35 years. 
I settled in a one day, and President Putin called me. He said, You know, I can’t believe I’ve worked on that war for 10 years trying to settle it, I couldn’t do it. I said, do me a favor, focus on settling your order. worry about that one.

What does the United States get out of all of this work, all of this money, other than death, destruction, and massive amounts of cash going to people who don’t appreciate what we do. They don’t appreciate what we do. Talking about NATO, I’m talking about Europe. 
They have to work on Ukraine. We don’t. The United States is very far away. 
We have a big, beautiful ocean separating us. We have nothing to do with it. Until I came along, was only supposed to pay 2% of GDP, but they weren’t paying. 
Most of the countries weren’t paying anything. The United States was paying for virtually 100% of NATO. And I got that stopped.

I said, That’s not fair. But then, more importantly, I got NATO to pay 5%, and now they were paying, and now they are paying. So something nobody said was possible. 
They said, We will never go up higher than 2%. But they went to 5%, and now they’re paying the five. They didn’t pay the two, and now they’re paying the five. 
And they’re stronger for it, and they have an excellent, by the way, secretary general, who’s possibly in the room. Mark, are you here? Yeah, she’s here. 
Hello, Mark. We never asked for anything. And we never got anything.

We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that. Okay? 
Now everyone’s saying, Oh, good. That’s probably the biggest statement I made, ’cause people thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force. 
I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.”

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