... At the ceremony, Trump looked over at the gifts laid out beside the podium at which he was speaking, and told the audience: "I heard they have a little surprise. Ooh, that looks nice. I hope it's the stick and not just the shirt. That stick looks beautiful. That looks beautiful. Maybe I get both, who the hell knows.
I'm president, I'll just take em."
And then, of course, Trump says he wants Greenland, a resource-rich autonomous island that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
In a January 8, 2026, piece in the New Yorker, Susan Glasser noted that Trump dumbfounded his advisors in 2018 by suggesting a trade of Puerto Rico for Greenland and, in the fall of 2021, told Glasser and her husband, journalist Peter Baker, that he wanted Greenland as a piece of real estate.
"I'm in real estate," he told them. "I look at a corner, I say, I gotta get that store for the building that I'm building,' et cetera.
You know, it's not that different.
I love maps. And I always said, Look at the size of this, it's massive, and that should be part of the United States.' "
He added, "It's not different from a real-estate deal. It's just a little bit larger, to put it mildly."
(Observers note that map projections often either minimize or exaggerate the true size of Greenland: it's about three times the size of Texas.) ...
Republicans do not have the backbone to even talk of doing this.