President Trump’s new Greenland security deal comes just 17 days after a US-based company quietly inked a deal to buy a Greenland mining company that would produce more than a third of the world's rare earth magnet supply excluding China.
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A US firm bought Greenland's rare-earth mine; seventeen days later Trump announced 'permanent control' over the island's security.
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Seventeen days, and the count is the New York Post's: seventeen days between a US-based company quietly inking its purchase of a Greenland mining company — one that would produce more than a third of the world's rare earth magnet supply excluding China — and Friday the eighteenth, when the President announced an agreement giving the United States "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns." Seventeen. Not seventeen months.
Tuesday the thing was signed on the sidelines of the General Assembly, Denmark and Greenland at the table for it. You will want to know whether Denmark sold the island. Denmark did not sell the island. What travels is the use of the place and the yield of it, to a party that holds no deed ... a usufruct, and a handsome one, with two "very major" military bases to be built upon it.…
…(cont) And what did the other two signatories carry home from New York? "We're going to have a tremendous relationship, a secure relationship, and we look forward to it." A relationship, spoken at the ceremony. That is their side of the consideration as the record carries it.
Two bases, and broad military authority across the island. The word in the announcement is permanent.
Grass a man does not own, the man's cattle eat. The fence follows.
“A company buys the mine that makes a third of the world's rare-earth magnets outside China, and seventeen days later the man's on TV saying we've got permanent control of the place. Denmark and Greenland walked out of that signing with a "tremendous relationship" and two foreign military bases going up on their dirt. Nobody broke a law here — that's what should scare you, because the next island gets the same paperwork.”
“This is an Arctic security arrangement, full stop, and tying it to some mining transaction is exactly the kind of insinuation — did I say insinuation? That doesn't sound like me. The Danes signed it, the Greenlanders signed it, everybody's at the table smiling, and if a private firm happened to close a deal a couple weeks earlier, that's the free market, which, last I checked, we're still allowed to have. Permanent control is just, you know, it's language, it's how he talks.”
The receipts
The Pentagon has failed its audit eight years running - the only major federal agency never to pass one Military Times, 19 December 2025
Trump says 2 new US bases coming to Greenland as deal signedPresident Trump said on Tuesday that Greenland will host two new “major” U.S. military bases, expanding Washington’s footprint on the arctic island after months of tensions with Denmark.
Trump promised the Ukraine war would end within 24 hours - and made that promise 53 separate times, CNN counted. CNN fact check, 25 April 2025 (all 53 instances)
Trump: US strikes security deal with Greenland, DenmarkPresident Trump said Friday that the United States has entered a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark that gives America a bigger say in the Arctic territory's affairs and expands its military presence in the country. Trump said the deal “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland…
President Trump on Tuesday signed a trilateral security agreement with Greenland and Denmark on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City. “We’re going to have a tremendous relationship, a secure relationship, and we look forward to it,”
President Donald Trump is attending an event with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland to sign a deal, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Trump promised the Ukraine war would end within 24 hours - and made that promise 53 separate times, CNN counted. CNN fact check, 25 April 2025 (all 53 instances)
Trump announces deal giving US ‘permanent control’ over Greenland’s securityThe United States has entered into an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to have a lasting military presence in the semi-autonomous territory, President Donald Trump announced on Friday. Trump said the deal will give the U.S. “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S.
The U.S., Denmark and Greenland signed a new security agreement bolstering the United States' military and security presence on the island.
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