{"id":1352232,"date":"2026-02-02T07:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/those-present-were-simply-silent-trump-joked-about-canada-greenland-and-venezuela-joining-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:54:35","slug":"those-present-were-simply-silent-trump-joked-about-canada-greenland-and-venezuela-joining-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/those-present-were-simply-silent-trump-joked-about-canada-greenland-and-venezuela-joining-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Those present were simply silent: Trump joked about Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela joining the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump joked about the possible accession of Canada, Greenland and Venezuela to the United States during a banquet at the Alfalfa Club in Washington. Some of his remarks were met with silence from the audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by The Washington Post<\/a> .<\/p>\n

According to journalists, Donald Trump’s speech took place during a banquet at the Alfalfa Club, a closed organization that includes heads of large companies, politicians and public figures in Washington. It was Trump’s first speech to the club’s members, who included his political opponents, including heads of financial institutions and representatives of the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n

During the speech, the US president made a number of jokes about his opponents and also ironically mentioned the topic of the country’s territorial expansion. According to the participants of the event, some of the remarks did not cause a reaction from the audience, and the hall fell silent several times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate so many people in this room. I like most of you. Who the hell would have thought this would happen?\u201d said Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

After that, he said he might cut short his speech due to the need to \u201cconsider invading Greenland,\u201d and later clarified that it was a joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to invade Greenland. We\u2019re going to buy it. I never intended to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela could be the 53rd,\u201d the US president said.<\/p>\n

Separately, Trump mentioned his nominee for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, joking about the possible consequences of refusing to lower interest rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t lower interest rates, I will condemn him,\u201d said Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

After a pause, he added that it was a joke. Also during his speech, the US president allowed himself harsh and obscene comments about individual political opponents and mentioned a number of public figures present in the audience.<\/p>\n

It is worth adding that the Alfalfa Club was founded in 1913. Donald Trump previously refused to participate in its events, and his predecessor Joe Biden did not address the club’s members during his presidency.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Western media reported that the US administration had abandoned the idea of a force scenario regarding Greenland due to the risk of impeachment<\/a> of President Donald Trump. According to Reuters, since early January, Trump and his team have increasingly mentioned the possibility of using force regarding Greenland, both publicly and in private conversations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have agreed on a framework agreement<\/a> to strengthen security in the Arctic, with a focus on Greenland. The agreement includes the deployment of US missiles, an expanded NATO presence and an economic component related to mineral extraction.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump joked about the possible accession of Canada, Greenland and Venezuela to the United States during a banquet at the Alfalfa Club in Washington. Some of his remarks were met with silence from the audience. This is reported by The Washington Post . According to journalists, Donald Trump’s speech took place during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1305244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1352232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}