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Comment by IAmGraydon | Hacker News Reader

What prompted the member of the press to ask him about this obscure topic in the first place? No one was talking about this, and then a guy at a press conference asked the right question to get him to run his mouth. Now the whole world is talking about it. Who and why?

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He was ranting about it at least two weeks before the recent press conference.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna185416

That's a very good question. Now, I'm thinking it's been a well pre-orchestrated theatre.

This came out today. Looks like our suspicion was well founded:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/danish-intelligence-r...

Trump has publicly talked about buying Greenland since his first term. This is an article from 2019:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/trump-consider...

Yes I know, but no one has really brought it up in years and it wasn’t being actively discussed before this. I would therefore like know why the guy at the press conference chose to ask him this question with a known inflammatory answer, seemingly out of nowhere.

Like the kids used to say, "for the lulz".

> but no one has really brought it up in years

Yes, it hasn’t been brought up during the last four years because he wasn’t president. Now that he’ll be president again it’s suddenly relevant.

Well in Canada we've got a click-bait crazy, manipulative media desperate to keep this going and drive angst, fear and anger. It makes me pretty upset to see even the CBC (our national broadcaster) playing these stupid games, getting sound bites from everybody and their dog. Nobody actually covers the original story anymore, it's all about the reaction to the reaction.

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