ou think he meant it as in he would send in the actual military and like start arresting any Greenland resistors? Don't know. That's the beauty of it. I follow Trump as closely as anybody. I don't know. Did he mean it? That's his magic. His magic is he might mean it. He might. And that's all you need.

So think about how much action he got simply by putting it out there that if you don't work with us we're just going to take it. Because once he's established that it's a military security requirement, which I'd never heard before Trump, I'd never even heard that some kind of military requirement, which I believe because of the opening of the ice in the nearby it's going to be fought over by Russia, China and all the powers. So yeah we need a strong presence to make sure our hemisphere doesn't get invaded by Russian missiles and who knows what.

So the first thing he does is informs the country that it's a requirement for security. So we're like well there's no way to get there but wouldn't it be great? Then he says in public and the Greenlandic people are like huh no no no I don't want to do that. But what's the offer? You only have to make them curious. Yeah just make them curious what the offer is. Because who's going to say no before they hear the offer, right? You could say no after you hear the offer but who says no before they hear the offer? You know just ordinary curious people who are not killing it in life, maybe they'd like to do a little better. This rich guy says maybe I can do something for you. You're going to stay and you're going to listen.

And then you hear but he might just take it. Then you think um maybe we should talk to him. And then Denmark says you know what I'm thinking maybe we should talk to you. Maybe we'll meet in the middle somewhere. Do you know what Trump needed? He just needed them to meet in the middle. I don't think the United States would be in favor of making a state. Do you know why? Because I'm pretty sure we don't want their voting record. I'm pretty sure we don't want to give them some kind of political power. Now I don't know what their beliefs are politically but I just as a point of reference I checked if they have if abortion is legal in Greenland because I feel like that's going to tell you kind of quickly where their heads are at. Not only is it legal to get an abortion in Greenland but according to Google they have the highest abortion rate in the world. The highest abortion rate in the world.

Now if I were a negotiator I would say to myself hmm yeah that's sort of a poison pill. You know if you're a Republican it's a poison pill. So maybe we should meet in the middle. Instead of turning it into a state maybe some kind of territory situation you know with a special arrangement would be best for all.

But what's interesting is that just as Trump is sort of offering hey wouldn't it be great if you were Americans, wouldn't you like that? The Greenlandic people are the busiest of all people killing their own people. So even the Greenlandic people don't love Greenlandic people. They're killing them at the highest rate of any civilized country. I'm just joking. The Greenlandic people probably just have a lot of sex so they you know there's nothing else to do so they probably need more abortions because they have more sex or something like that.

Now here's something I learned from the comments on Locals. I hadn't really considered this before but you know how Trump is really good with real estate. Like he can spot an opportunity in real estate that other people might not catch because that's his business. And somebody pointed out that this is the perfect time to buy Greenland because once climate change turns on and Greenland actually turns green, we're not going to be able to afford it. So you want to get it cheap before climate change turns it into a beachfront sort of a tropical island because that's when it's really going to be expensive. So I think Trump's brilliant. He's going to get it before it warms up. You can't tell if I'm kidding, can you?

All right so I thought I would put together a Greenland deal just so we could sort of play with it to see if it looks like it could be something that would work. I'm going to throw out a first draft right now of what a deal might look like. Right now I don't know if you know but I have an extensive background in negotiating. Used to be my job in corporate America. I was the person who had to negotiate with vendors to get their prices down and all that stuff. So you learn about deal making and you know how to and also you know my MBA background they teach about deal making. So I have some experience in how to put together a deal. So this is not completely speculative. Just know that there's a little bit of actual professional skill that's going into this. Okay, just a little bit. Like I'm not the best at it or anything.

Number one, I like the idea of calling it a territory or whatever word you want to put on it and not a state. We already have some, right? Guam and whatever. I don't like them voting but that's no problem because Greenland probably doesn't care about voting in our politics. I would say that you want to offer the Greenlandic people full local control of their laws so that the law of the United States doesn't necessarily apply there but they get to make their own laws and have their own justice system just like now. So basically they would operate exactly the same and they would have their own taxation. We wouldn't tax them but we would take over the support payments that Denmark is doing.

So what Denmark would get out of it is they don't have to pay Trump his extortion when he says if we're going to protect your island you're going to have to pay us you know 20 billion a year or whatever he puts on it. And they're not going to want to pay that. And they currently pay to subsidize Greenland. They wouldn't have to pay that. So wouldn't it be great if Denmark just sort of got out of the business of managing something that they don't want to manage? So I think Denmark could be made happy as long as Greenland came out ahead and they cut their own budget so they didn't have to support it. It seems doable.

But here's what you would do if you're Trump to sweeten a deal. You would say we're going to greatly expand the mining operations for the rare earth materials. I think there's some energy too. Was there natural gas? Maybe. We don't know for sure but we'd look for some more. And the idea would be that we would share the income with the locals. Maybe the same way that oil companies when they first went to the Middle East and the countries where they want to drill did not have the ability to build oil wells themselves. So I don't know the details. I'd love to be informed about that by the way if somebody knows those details. Did the oil company say something like we'll give you half if you let us just drill on your land that you can't drill on? Or 20%? Like what is the number where both are happy? I don't know what that number is. But we could say to them we're going to give you a percentage of that and it will be way bigger, way more money than Denmark was giving you every year. Your lifestyle will improve. You can have less abortions. And they'd get full military protection.

But I think there would have to be a clause in there which could be a sticking point that would give the United States the authority for full martial law in a military emergency. Now if you are wanting to be an i