Sunday, March 30, 2025

Trump's Greenland Takeover Idea Is Unpopular

President Donald Trump continues to double-down on his desire for the United States to take over control of Greenland, but polling shows the idea is deeply unpopular with Americans and Greenlanders. Newsweek has reached out to the White House for comment on Saturday.

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Fox News is now engaged in a 24 hour operation to convince Americans that invading Greenland is normal.

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-- Jay in Kyiv (@jayinkyiv.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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... Recent polls show few Americans favor the idea of the U.S. taking over Greenland.

A Fox News survey conducted from March 14 to 17 showed that 70 percent of registered voters opposed Trump's goal. Just 26 percent of respondents supported the Greenland plan.

Notably, this was the least popular idea polled by Fox News in the survey. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and working to shutter the Department of Education were a close second and third, at 67 percent and 65 percent opposed, respectively.

The poll included 994 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Another recent poll carried out by Yahoo News/YouGov also showed the idea underwater by double-digits, although it had less outright opposition. In that survey, 19 percent said they favored the idea while 49 percent said they opposed"a 30-point margin. An additional 32 percent said they were not sure.

The poll included 1,677 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-30 12:23 AM


So.... instead of concentrating upon the economy (indeed, possibly destroying it), Pres Trump seems to have a focus on something Americans care little about?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-30 12:24 AM

It's the legacy of expansion that the Dotard craves.

The idea that he alone Took Greenland for America.

MAGA ...it's all about Trump's ego. Not American "Greatness".

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-03-30 09:44 AM

---- off idiot. Also, Fat Donnie Failure is a clown.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-30 03:19 PM

The Greenlanders have a great future as an independent state.

And Donald Trump has ruined everything he has gotten his greasy little hands on.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 08:42 AM

A high school bully picking a fight with a preschool student. All fun and games until US boots hit the ground and some 19-year old from Okiehomie gets shot by a guy with a deer rifle. Then what? Asking for a nation...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-31 09:00 AM

Barron Trump, reporting for duty, Sirrr!"

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-31 09:51 AM

gets shot by a guy with a deer rifle

In Greenland I think they're called "Rudy Rifles" - I may be mistaken.

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 12:57 PM

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