President Trump has excellent logic behind his argument that America must be able to count on a secure Greenland directly above our country, pointed like the dagger shape it has, right at the heart of America. The toothless Danes, who just beefed up their military presence in Greenland with two dog-sled teams (!) cannot possibly help to defend America from an aggressive Red China taking over Greenland. We can only count on ourselves The Greenlanders, every one of them, would reap a bonanza of household wealth from the Americans supplanting Denmark’s dual dog-sled defense. That argument, the argument for American national security, is, on January 14, 2026, Trump’s ONLY existential argument for securing Greenland. It’s NOT about mining or “treasure troves” of minerals buried under Greenland. Buried where….under Greenland’s 5,000 foot deep mantle of rock-hard ICE? At godawful temperatures, mind you. To even scrape up a few buckets of Greenland “treasure troves” of dirt one must first mine down through 5,000 feet of ice. Much easier to mine through 5,000 feet of dirt. But hold on sonny! Has anyone, anywhere in the world mined through 5,000 feet of dirt (in warm weather), let alone 5,000 feet of blade-busting ice at -60 degrees? No! The deepest open-pit mine on Earth is the Bingham Copper Mine in Utah, which is 3,970 feet deep. And the Bingham Copper Mine, as it spirals down to a tiny spot at that depth. is extracting copper ore all the way down! If you spent hundreds of billions of dollars to spiral down 3,970 feet at -60 in Greenland you would have extracted how much in valuable minerals? I know the exact dollar amount….ZERO! You have to spiral (in ever larger circles) downward another 1,030 feet to get to your first available square foot of Greenland dirt! Good luck with that first square foot. The fifty cents worth of minerals you’d be lucky to discover there have to pay your investors back for the 20 or 30 billion dollars they sank into your “treasure trove” over ten years of excavating! Try selling that ROI! No, President Trump’s rock-solid argument is based on national security, period.