DownSouthJoke,

Like many another leftist who posts here, you're "splitting." You're allowing your cognitive biases and personal psychological issues to see things involving Trump and/or the USA from only one perspective--that Trump is pure evil and anything he does or says is inexplicable and pure evil.

Far from it.

Evidently the U.S. has been interested in acquiring more control of Greenland for a long long time.

Way before Trump.

So, my guess is that Trump has seen some contingency plan material on why it would make sense for the U.S. to do so, and rather than do it behind the scenes, he has put the idea out in the open and it's on the table for negotiation/discussion.

That's what Trump does. That's one of his standard negotiating techniques.

He's single handedly moved the Overton window on this issue.

At a minimum, he has forced NATO to explicitly acknowledge their responsibility for Greenland and forced them to actually pay attention to it. Maybe his real objective is to extract monetary concessions from the other NATO nations to beef up our defense forces in Greenland and to have the European NATO nations pay for it.

Yes it's 5-D chess and not only are you guys only playing checkers, you're not even playing checkers--you're finger painting with the stuff in your diapers.