The interns would receive financial support from Danish taxpayers, at the same time as Trump threatens to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory

The US Consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, is looking for unpaid interns to service its communication channels, leaving local authorities to foot the bill of financially supporting applicants while the US steps up annexation threats.

Last week, Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland – a semi-autonomous territory under the Danish Realm – sparking backlash from Greenlandic, Danish and European authorities.

Initially expressing interest in acquiring the island during his first term in 2019, Trump has ramped up discourse and efforts during his second term, going so far as to suggest the US would use military force to annex the Inuit nation.

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    He IS going to avoid elections by being at war, isn’t he?

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      I know it’s bleak but that isn’t how it works

      The states get to conduct their own elections and we’ve always had elections during war anyway

      Federalism is one of the few really good ideas the founders had for dealing with this exact problem: a tyrannical federal government

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          I know, and they are disregarding laws I don’t mean to imply otherwise, and this is a perverse point to make but

          We’ve had elections during every war so far so I think the best they can do is attempt to hack them and cheat in more conventional ways

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            Yeah, it really seems like they stole the last election with shady vote machines after implying that the Dems did it in 2000.

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        Except the red states are going to do what he says and the blue states are going to be invaded by national Guardsmen from the red States.

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          Blue states ask for help then ironically, Putler/pooh comes?

          Then everyone is confused

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      the USA has such passage? That’s stupid but would explain why he wants to wage war with Venezuela.

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    “The US Consulate in Greenland reopened in June 2020 during Trump’s first term. In 2025, shortly after Trump was re-appointed president, the consulate moved to larger, 3,000 square meter offices in central Nuuk, equipped with armoured glass.”

    Ah yes, the actions of someone who is confident they will be welcomed with open arms.

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    looking for unpaid interns to service its communication channels, leaving local authorities to foot the bill of financially supporting applicants while the US steps up annexation threats.

    I’m over here, laughing in OpSec

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    Real life is stranger than fiction man. I’ve never seen anything this crazy in any dystopian novels I’ve read.

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    The hypocrisy in a nutshell.

    Also

    service its communication channels

    We all know what that means for MAGA.

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    So he wants fanatics who don’t need money to go to Greenland? Sounds like zealots to me… ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯