Democrats and the media have scoffed at Trump’s talk of acquiring Greenland for the United States, but they may not be laughing for much longer.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed by Megyn Kelly this week and confirmed that Trump’s intentions are very real and that the acquisition of Greenland has nothing to do with gaining more land but is all about national security.

Rubio also did a great job of explaining Trump’s approach to the issue, with the mind of a strategic businessman rather than that of a politician.

The Daily Caller has more details:

Marco Rubio Tells Megyn Kelly That Trump’s Greenland Bid ‘Is Not A Joke’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly on Thursday during her show that President Donald Trump’s bid for Greenland is “not a joke.”…

“Well, I think President Trump, what he has said publicly is he wants to buy it. He wants to pay for it. How we worked on something like that, how something like that is approached, obviously is probably done better in the appropriate forms. A lot of this stuff is done publicly, and it’s not helpful because it puts the other side in a tough spot domestically,” Rubio said. “So those conversations are going to happen. But this is not a joke. What he is saying is pretty accurate.”

“This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest, and it needs to be solved. President Trump has put out there what he intends to do, which is to purchase it. I wasn’t privy to that phone call, but I imagine the phone call went the way a lot of these phone calls go, and that is he just speaks bluntly and frankly with people,” Rubio added. “Ultimately I think diplomacy in many cases works better when you’re straightforward as opposed to using platitudes and language that translates to nothing.”

Watch the video below:

NEW: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump is serious about acquiring Greenland, says his comments are “not a joke.”

The comments came after Trump had a fiery call with Denmark’s PM leaving Danish officials “utterly freaked out.”

“This is not a joke. This is not about… pic.twitter.com/63TRI1lXJX

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 31, 2025

Anyone who knows American history will recall that America’s purchase of Alaska in 1867 was initially mocked by detractors as ‘Seward’s Folly.’ Can you even imagine Alaska not being part of the United States today?

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Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of now imprisoned crypto-scammer Sam Bankman-Fried, are reportedly trying to appeal to President Trump for a pardon for their son.

This is incredibly ironic, when you consider the fact that Bankman-Fried was accused of using his scam to help Democrats and keep Republicans like Donald Trump from holding office.

As the Gateway Pundit reported in March of 2024, Bankman-Fried was the second biggest Democrat donor after only left-wing billionaire George Soros.

His parents have a lot of nerve seeking a pardon from Trump.

Breitbart News reports:

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Scheming to Get Son Pardoned by Trump

The parents of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are reportedly scheming to get Sam pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Stanford Law School Professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried reportedly had meetings recently with lawyers and others in Trump’s orbit to have Sam Bankman-Fried receive clemency.

Bankman-Fried was sentenced last March to 25 years after being convicted of five counts of conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud.

The former CEO of the digital currency exchange FTX has made the case that his sentence was “draconian” as FTX customers have largely recovered most of the money they had lost.

Ryan Salame, a former FTX executive who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, also seeks a pardon.

It’s difficult to imagine Trump going along with this.

Bankman-Fried was one of the biggest donors to all of Trump’s worst political enemies, the same people who tried to put Trump in prison.

Trump giving him a pardon would be the worst unforced error of his political career. https://t.co/HR2Vwcp3SW

— ☈ (@revenant_MMXX) January 31, 2025

Apparently Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents are trying to get a presidential pardon from Trump. These are the same two who donated millions upon millions to Biden and the DNC. pic.twitter.com/D01FCVlGqg

— DΛVID (@DavidShares) January 30, 2025

Under no circumstances should President Trump pardon this guy.

Sam Bankman-Fried must spend many more decades in prison. pic.twitter.com/1HZtx7txj9

— George (@BehizyTweets) January 30, 2025

Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried were probably hoping that Kamala Harris would win the election and pardon their son. American voters had other plans.

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Over the past 75 years, millions of lives have been destroyed, derailed, or otherwise shattered by the war in Burma, as the country’s diverse ethnic and religious groups continue their fight against successive military juntas.

While the junta enjoys military and financial support from Russia and China, the pro-democracy forces receive little more than statements of condemnation from the UN and the international community—without any material aid, political backing, or military intervention.

Vittorio, a Catholic Karenni Free Burma Ranger (FBR) and a member of the pro-democracy resistance, was killed in action while defending his ethnic and religious community from the military junta’s forces. Looking at his photos, it’s hard to believe he’s gone. He doesn’t look like someone who should be dead—he should have had his whole life ahead of him. If he had been born in America, he would have been preparing for prom, learning to drive, working a part-time job—enjoying one last summer with his friends before college. Instead, he was born into a war—the same war his parents, and possibly even his grandparents, were born into. Burma’s war is the longest-running conflict in the world, and Vittorio never knew anything else. He grew up in hardship and died serving others.

As I get older, the ethnic resistance fighters seem younger and younger. Recently, a 16-year-old soldier stepped on a landmine while the Rangers were inspecting a church that had been bombed by the junta. He survived, but he lost his foot. If he lives to 35, he will have spent more years without his foot than with it—a stark reminder of how war steals not just lives, but entire futures.

In Chiangmai, Thailand, I met a 19-year-old Catholic Karenni ex-soldier who is now trying to earn an American GED and get an education, but the odds are stacked against him. He grew up in the countryside with a poor education to begin with, then came COVID lockdowns, school closures, and finally the coup. He was barely 14 when he last sat in a classroom, and the years since have been filled with war. When he arrived in Chiang Mai, he had no formal schooling for half a decade.

Even if he manages to pass his GED, his future remains uncertain. His family is displaced, struggling daily just to find food. There is no one to pay for his college tuition. At best, he will become an undocumented laborer in Thailand. At worst, he will be deported back into a warzone.

This is the grim reality of Burma’s war—a war that has raged since 1948, robbing entire generations of their future. It’s not just the dead who are casualties; the living have also lost everything—their education, their careers, their chance to travel, to raise families, to build lives that the rest of the world takes for granted.

Across the country, 3.5 million people are internally displaced, while another 3 to 4 million are hiding in Thailand. Add to that a million in Bangladesh, thousands more in India, and those resettled in third countries, and you realize that nearly 18% of Burma’s population no longer lives where they are supposed to. They are no longer in their homes, surrounded by their families, their farms, their language, their culture.

Nowhere is this clearer than in Karenni State, Burma’s only Catholic-majority region, where 80% of the population has been displaced. Nearly everyone has witnessed their homes and villages being destroyed. Airstrikes are a daily reality. Most have seen people killed firsthand. Even young children tell stories of watching their neighbors blown apart.

Yesterday, a Catholic nun wept as she told me about a boy who had been mangled by a bomb dropped from a Chinese aircraft.

In violation of international sanctions, Russia and China continue to supply the junta with weapons and fuel, enabling its brutal campaign against the people of Burma. Despite this, resistance forces have captured roughly 80% of the country’s territory. However, without international support, they have no way of seizing the remaining government strongholds, which are fortified with landmines, drones, and total air superiority.

Meanwhile, the junta regularly launches airstrikes on civilian villages, churches, temples, IDP camps, hospitals, and schools, killing indiscriminately. The mass killing of civilians will only end when the junta has been defanged and its support from Russia and China is halted. And until the junta falls, the civilian government cannot begin rebuilding—roads will remain impassable, schools will remain closed, and an entire generation will continue to grow up in war instead of peace.

In January 2025, David Eubank, head of Free Burma Rangers (FBR), and Burma expert Ashley South issued an open letter calling for international intervention. They wrote:

“The United States should support freedom and democracy in Burma—because this is the right thing to do for the people of Burma, the region, and the world. Supporting democracy in Burma can also help counter Chinese state authoritarian influence and oppression.”

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