Trump and Greenland

OK, so I know I am not saying anything original here, but we have a military base on Greenland.  If Trump thinks it is not big enough, he just has to ask and he can expand it.  Or if he thinks we need more bases, that can readily be negotiated with the Danes, who are a treaty ally and share our interest in keeping out the Russians and Chinese.  Or if he is interested in the rare earth minerals in Greenland, again, the Danes are happy to negotiate an agreement.

Trump is basically a man who visits a friend, sees a piece of art the friend has, and covets it.  The friend, seeing that he likes the work, offers to sell it.  But regardless of the price, he his sure the friend is ripping him off because why would the friend part with the piece of art unless he was getting the better end of the bargain.  Friend could even offer the piece of art for free out of friendship and Trump would just wonder what his angle was.  The only way Trump can be sure his friend isn't taking advantage of him is to push him aside and take the piece of art by force.

When you are a powerful enough, you can do without friends.