By A Republican is trying to foment a backlash against President Donald Trump’s escalating attempts toward acquiring Greenland. Rep. Don Bacon, from Nebraska, warned that any move to seize the Arctic territory by force could trigger impeachment and potentially end Trump’s presidency.
In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Bacon said he would “lean” toward supporting impeachment proceedings if Trump ordered a U.S. invasion of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark and a NATO ally. “I don’t want to give you a definite yes or no, but I would lean that way,” Bacon said. “It would be a total mistake to invade an ally. It would be catastrophic to our allies and everything. It’s just the worst idea ever in my view.”
Bacon dismissed the broader push to compel Greenland to join the United States as “utter buffoonery,” and said frustration inside the Republican conference is running deep. “There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” he said. “If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know: The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”
Trump, for his part, has intensified his rhetoric in recent days, portraying U.S. control of Greenland as essential to national security and NATO’s future strength. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, he wrote, “NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES. Anything less than that is unacceptable.” At a news conference with oil executives last week, Trump went further, declaring he was “going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.”
A pretty good explanation of what all the fuss around Greenland is actually about.
Watch this instead of listening to low IQ mouth breathers with such lacklustre brain development that their immediate go-to is to shout buzzwords like “imperialism”.
It’s the same as people… pic.twitter.com/gEENTs5goX
— 𝔸η𝐓 (@AntSpeaks) January 20, 2026
Those remarks have drawn sharp rebukes from Danish and Greenlandic officials and growing concern across Europe. Denmark earlier this month announced an expanded military presence near Greenland, citing rising tensions and uncertainty sparked by Washington’s rhetoric.
On Capitol Hill, Bacon has moved beyond words. He is a co-sponsor of the No Funds for NATO Invasion Act, a bipartisan proposal that would bar the use of federal funds for military action against a NATO ally or its territories. “It’s ridiculous that this has to even be done,” Bacon said of the measure, “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.”
Bacon represents a competitive swing district in Nebraska and has announced he will not seek re-election. He has periodically broken with Trump on foreign policy and national security issues, but his comments this week rank among his strongest public rebukes of the president to date.
The dispute has also prompted a rare show of bipartisan diplomacy abroad. A congressional delegation including Sens. Chris Coons, Thom Tillis, Jeanne Shaheen, and Dick Durbin, along with Reps. Gregory Meeks and Steny Hoyer, traveled to Copenhagen on Friday to meet with Danish and Greenlandic leaders.
“I hope this delegation will make it clear that Donald Trump’s dangerous threats against Greenland and Denmark do not reflect the views of the American people or the Congress,” Hoyer said in a statement ahead of the trip, which aimed to reaffirm more than two centuries of U.S.-Denmark alliance ties. Some have claimed that this delegation violated the Logan Act, a rarely enforced 18th-century statute that prohibits private citizens from conducting unauthorized diplomacy with foreign governments.
Internationally, the controversy has begun to ripple outward. European NATO members have increased their presence in the region, and discussions of potential retaliatory measures have surfaced amid fears the standoff could fracture alliance unity. At home, public opinion polling shows little appetite among Americans for military action to acquire Greenland—underscoring the widening gap between the president’s rhetoric and both congressional and public sentiment.
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