A swing district Republican very publicly bashed President Donald Trump’s plan to invade Greenland, going so far as to support impeachment measures should Trump’s plans materialize.
“It’s ridiculous that this has to even be done,” Rep. Don Bacon told the Omaha World-Herald. “But when the president talks about taking Greenland one way or the other way every day this last week or so, and that it’s unacceptable if Greenland refuses to be part of the United States, I felt like I needed to make a statement that Republicans disagree.”
“It’s utter buffoonery to think that we should compel Greenland to be part of the United States,” he added.
The Nebraska Republican’s comments come as Trump has ramped up rhetoric around annexing the semiautonomous Danish territory for “national security purposes,” despite pushback from lawmakers, Greenland, Denmark, and other NATO allies.
The Arctic island is rich with natural resources and serves as home to a U.S. Space Force base.
On Wednesday in the Oval Office, Trump snapped at a reporter who confronted him about a potential invasion.
“It sounds like you would potentially acquire Greenland by force,” the reporter said.
“No, you’re saying that. I didn’t say it,” Trump said. “You’re telling me that that’s what I’m going to do — you don’t know what I’m going to do.”
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In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned that President Trump’s talk of seizing Greenland by force threatens to “incinerate” the nation’s long-standing ties with NATO allies.
McConnell declared that burning the treaty organization that formed after World War II to contain Soviet aggression would be an “unprecedented act of strategic self-harm.”
“Unless and until the president can demonstrate otherwise, then the proposition at hand today is very straightforward: incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies in exchange for no meaningful change in U.S. access to the Arctic,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, delivering one of the strongest statements criticizing the Trump administration’s talk about potentially seizing Greenland by force.
He warned that following through on the “ill-advised threats” from the administration would “shatter the trust of allies.”
“Following through on this provocation would be more disastrous for the President’s legacy than withdrawing from Afghanistan was for his predecessor,” he said.
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BAcon should pull his head out of his ass long enough to realize this is the art of the deal in real life. How stupid can you be.
” . . .the proposition at hand today is very straightforward: incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies in exchange for no meaningful change in U.S. access to the Arctic”
Who are these loyal allies? And what have they done to secure their nations? Access the Arttic? Trump never said that was the goal. He wants the land mass because China and Russia want it which would give either a strategic advantage.
McConnell is a puppet of the CCP, always has been.
Don Bacon with five terms as a Rep has a JBS lifetime score of 48% based on his voting recording compared to the dictates of the US Constitution. Not only does the media get to tell the citizens of the US what to think about anything an official does or says that is not a Democrat, Rep Bacon also believes every thing the media says also. How about feeding your constituent some truth Don.
Bacon wouldn’t make a pimple on Trump’s ass. A thousand times it has been said “TRUMP WAS RIGHT” after these TDS dumbasses doubted his decisions. Time to wise up Bacon.