00:00¿Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland?
00:04I was going to leave it out of the speech, but I thought, I think I would have been reviewed very negatively.
00:11I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark.
00:17Tremendous respect.
00:19But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory.
00:24And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States.
00:34We're a great power, much greater than people even understand.
00:37I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela.
00:42We saw this in World War II when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting
00:50and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.
00:54So the United States was then compelled.
00:58We did it.
00:59We felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory.
01:06And hold it we did.
01:07After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark.
01:13How stupid were we to do that?
01:15But we did it.
01:17But we gave it back.
01:19But how ungrateful are they now?
01:21So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before because of missiles,
01:31because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can't even talk about.
01:36Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory, sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China.
01:51That's exactly where it is, right smack in the middle.
01:54Wasn't important nearly when we gave it back.
01:57You know, when we gave it back, it wasn't the same as it is now.
02:01It's not important for any other reason, you know, to that when it talks about the minerals, there's so many places, there's no rare earth.
02:08That's not the reason we need it.
02:09We need it for strategic national security and international security.
02:16This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere.
02:24That's our territory.
02:26It's the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it's good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us.
02:40And that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
02:47just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European nations have.
02:54They've acquired it.
02:55There's nothing wrong with it.
02:56I don't have to use force.
02:57I don't want to use force.
02:58I won't use force.
03:00All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee,
03:08but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians and others in World War II.
03:18We gave it back to them.
03:21We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
03:25After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today, we have a budget of $1.5 trillion.
03:32If there is a war, much of the action will take place on that piece of ice.
03:38Think of it.
03:39Those missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice.
03:43All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay
03:54is this land on which we're going to build the greatest golden dome ever built.
03:59We're building the golden dome.
04:02We're building the golden dome, where you're going to be able to build the potential leading us to the heroes.
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