Ron Filipkowski says Trump negotiated "for things we already had in Greenland"
Ron FilipkowskiEditor-in-chief of MeidasTouch News, posting on his own Bluesky account
Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch News, wrote on Bluesky that Trump "did an incredible job negotiating for things we already had in Greenland," in a post made nearly four hours after Trump announced on Truth Social an agreement with Denmark and Greenland.
“Trump did an incredible job negotiating for things we already had in Greenland.”
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Where this statement fits
Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
On September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he said gives the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland.” Danish and Greenlandic officials initially described an expected agreement and emphasized sovereignty and self-determination. On September 22, the White House published an agreement text dated that day. It reaffirms Denmark’s sovereignty and Greenland’s right to self-determination; provides for U.S. defense areas and access under stated procedures; bars non-NATO states from establishing military installations unless the parties agree otherwise; and has no end date. The text says it enters into force only after diplomatic notice of necessary parliamentary procedures. The dispute remains over how Trump’s “permanent control” description compares with the document’s terms.
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The speaker's own post. It is a standalone one-sentence text post with no quoted post, link or image. It does not name the agreement, so its link to the 2026-09-18 announcement rests on timing (3 hours 52 minutes after Trump's Truth Social post), on its wording, and on its being the only Greenland post among his 94 most recent posts (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-19 02:16 UTC); replies and quote-posts by other users read it as about the agreement. The same sentence appears on his Threads account (@ronaldfilipkowski). The publication date shown is the US Eastern date; the UTC date is 2026-09-19.
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At 5:18 PM EDT on 2026-09-18, Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States had entered into an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that gives it "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland."
After the quotation
The post was published nearly four hours after Trump's announcement.
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Why this label?
Filipkowski's own words say the negotiation was "for things we already had in Greenland", which disputes that description by treating the agreement as restating what the U.S. already held; "an incredible job" is sarcastic and is not praise of the agreement. The closest competing label is minimizes, because "already had" also downplays how much the agreement adds. That loses because he disputes what the agreement adds rather than conceding a concern and shrinking it, and he does not criticize the agreement itself.
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