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Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island (www.latintimes.com)

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The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250411133253/https://www.latintimes.com/trump-admin-considering-giving-10000-each-person-greenland-annex-island-580455

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[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 131 points 4 weeks ago

Enough to barely cover your first ambulance ride.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 46 points 4 weeks ago

which you'll eventually need because you'll stop going to the doctor for anything less that being literally seconds away from death.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 20 points 4 weeks ago

Will that even be enough in Greenland, unless you live around Nuuk?

This makes a good point - a country like Greenland without strong government and a strong security net would simply become uninhabitable for normal people.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 111 points 4 weeks ago

Ohh, a promise from trump, the king of lies who famously never pays anyone.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 4 weeks ago

It seems as though they can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be American, which is kinda nutty.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 27 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, you'd have to pay me a lot more to even consider it, $10000 seems laughably low.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeah. Someone else suggested it might cover your first ambulance ride. I'm thinking maybe your first year health insurance?

Edit - it was just a wild guess, but here's a badly formatted table copied from an article in Forbes:

Age of member Average monthly costs

Age 21 $445
Age 27 $467
Age 30 $505
Age 40 $569
Age 50 $795
Age 60 $1,208

So, for my age, my guess was almost exactly right!

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Monthly? Dafuq..

[-] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

You pay that per month, and still get denied healthcare.

It's a racket

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Best country in the world they keep telling us.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

Best country in the world for billionaires.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Land of the fee

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

How shitty Americans must think the world is.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, they know this is junk. It's just noise to split focus away from what they're really doing.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 64 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Fun fact denmark already sends more money than that so by accepting this deal they not only would they become american but also loose gdp. No matter how you look at it its a lose lose for greenland lol

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 weeks ago

Just FYI, loose and lose have different meanings. Kinda like desert and dessert.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 weeks ago

Yes it was a typo. Sometimes when im tired in the morning or night my spelling gets funky. I have spelt english words in hungarian and hungarian words on english before, i think its because im bilingual.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda like pedant and pendejo.

[-] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 52 points 3 weeks ago

Get 10k now!!

And all it will cost you is Healthcare, Education, Employee rights and self autonomy!!

What are you waiting for, don't miss out on this one time offer to get 10k!!

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They'll either kill them, force them onto reservations or kick them off the island.

And, since Trump is involved, the promised $10k might never get paid.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Trail of Tears 2 Electric Boogaloo

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago

I’m so sick of all his shit.

[-] stephen@lazysoci.al 33 points 4 weeks ago

But then all of the people in Greenland won’t work! Remember when the United States gave us all in the midst of the COVID pandemic and none of us returned to our jobs and now all live on yachts? This would be even worse!

[-] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago

All other idiocy aside, this number is just so fucking offensive. 10k, really? That's it?

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

It's 65774 DKK. With 40k/mo salary average in Denmark (so like 25 after taxes),this is a few months worth of money. Ok, maybe salaries are lower because whole Greenland is in the middle of nowhere, but it's also not some war-torn African country - people don't live on five bucks a month

[-] anton 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, maybe salaries are lower because whole Greenland is in the middle of nowhere, [...]

Having visited Iceland, the cost of living is higher on islands with limited agriculture and high cost of imports.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Someone in a cross post said: a million dollars would be insulting. Ten k is beyond insulting

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

We're paying extra for bread to give people in greenland 10k?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 4 weeks ago

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

[-] Аноним@lemmy.nz 8 points 3 weeks ago

😂😂😂😂 oh really, is he asking Musk to.pay cause I know he wont

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume USD is worth anything

[-] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago

Greenland already receives around 600 milion Euro PER YEAR from the Danish Government. Trump wants to give them less, and as a one time payment.

Greenland, as part of Denmark has free state funded education, with special grants for Greenlanders that want to attend education in Denmark itself. They have free healthcare and access to some of the best social safety nets in the world.

As Danish citizens they also have access to the EU free travel zone which allows them to visit any EU country without requiring a visa or even a passport.

There are more benefits that I'm forgetting for sure.

Unless the Trump administration offers to match all of the above then Greenlanders would take a losing deal. Sure, almost everyone has their price, but this deal is like offering you 100 bucks for me to come live in your house forever afterwards, ask you for money if you wanna send your kids to school or you want to go to the doctor.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 4 weeks ago

Yep, that $10000 will be gone with the first doctor's visit.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

Okay, maybe Greenland should take the US. We can be their red white and blue land. It's a pretty strategic location.

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, the 10k per person would be about half a billion dollars one time. So it makes no sense to get less than that only one time.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, it is. The people of Greenland have repeatedly told him "hell no!" and expecting them to abandon their principles for the 2027 price of a dozen eggs in the US is selling them short, pun intended.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 29 points 4 weeks ago

Lol, yes it is. Greenland only has a pop a little over 55k people. Meaning that trump is offering a little over 500m dollars for an island who's gdp is well over 3 billion dollars a year.

Not only is he being incredibly stupid, he's being super cheap about it at the same time.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Might be hoping for some Brexit type stupidity where enough people heard somewhere that they get 10k if they vote yes.

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[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 25 points 4 weeks ago

I've got an even better idea. LEAVE GREENLAND THE FUCK ALONE.

[-] fishfriedi@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 weeks ago

Thats true but $10.000 is quite little compated to how they benefit from the current government. Free healthcare, free education just to name two.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You have to factor in the cost of living under a fascist autocracy too, where you can get kidnapped and sent to a secret prison for life because you didn't respect the leader enough, even though the leader is a corrupt moron. Which is a pretty damn high cost, and $10,000 doesn't even begin to balance it out.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, it's the stupidest idea, it's a massive waste of my tax money for something that no American actually wants or gives a shit about. Why can't we just leave people alone, why is the only other option war?

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

Gahd damn you sound like a cunt

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

satire of satire

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[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

In this new era, these crooks will float an idead on the webs, then measure the response with AI fucking crawlers. I should just switch off wifi or something.

[-] madcnt@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

He’s reading the intelligence of the people in Greenland. Thankfully they are not dumb

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