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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,424 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 07:38 PM Yesterday

Trump says rare earths are part of his Greenland deal. It's 'completely bonkers'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he reached a framework for a deal with NATO over the future of Greenland that will include rights to rare-earth minerals.

“They’re going to be involved in mineral rights, and so are we,” Trump said about NATO and the United States in an interview with CNBC after the initial announcement on Truth Social.

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The reality is that Denmark’s ownership of Greenland is not what’s stopping the United States from tapping the island’s treasure trove. It’s the punishing Arctic environment.

‘Completely bonkers’

Researchers say it would be extremely difficult and expensive to extract Greenland’s minerals because many of the island’s mineral deposits are located in remote areas above the Arctic Circle, where there is a mile-thick polar ice sheet and darkness reigns much of the year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-rare-earths-part-050201943.html

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Trump says rare earths are part of his Greenland deal. It's 'completely bonkers' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP
In the world in which Donnie lives (what's left of his mind), rsdsharp Yesterday #1
a mile thick sheet of ice... MizLibby Yesterday #2

rsdsharp

(11,828 posts)
1. In the world in which Donnie lives (what's left of his mind),
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 07:52 PM
Yesterday

logistical problems are overcome with a wave of his tiny, bruised hand.

MizLibby

(393 posts)
2. a mile thick sheet of ice...
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 07:53 PM
Yesterday

Couldn't he just nuke that pesky Greenland ice and then have access to the minerals? A YUGE rainstorm of Uranium and other valued goodies emerge from the blast site?

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