Donald Trump isn’t just celebrating his invasion of Venezuela—he’s already shopping for his next conquest. The 79-year-old “peace president” is now openly eyeing Greenland, Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba as potential military targets, according to The Daily Beast.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump told The Atlantic from his Florida golf club on Sunday, just one day after U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro. He described the autonomous Danish territory as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships” and declared, “We need it for defense.”
THE DETAILS: Trump’s invasion wish list is growing fast. Administration officials told Zeteo that the president remains “very interested” in sending U.S. troops into Mexico—a literal American ally—to target cartel members. Trump reportedly asked as recently as November when such an order could be given and how quickly boots could hit the ground.
Colombia is also in his crosshairs. “He has factories where he makes cocaine,” Trump said of President Gustavo Petro while speaking from Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. “He does have to watch his a–.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio then threw Cuba onto the pile, blaming the island nation for Venezuela’s problems and issuing a thinly veiled threat: “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit.”
BUT BUT BUT: Remember when Trump campaigned on ending “endless wars” and bringing American troops home? That was the pitch.
Now he’s openly fantasizing about invading NATO allies, sovereign neighbors, and anyone else who doesn’t bend the knee.
Denmark, for its part, is not playing along. Ambassador Jesper Moeller Soerensen posted on X that Denmark expects “full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.” In other words: back off.
Cuba’s government issued its own warning Saturday night: “All nations of the region must remain alert, as the threat hangs over all.”
WHY IT MATTERS: This isn’t bluster anymore. Trump invaded a sovereign nation, kidnapped its president, and is now publicly brainstorming which country comes next. These aren’t hypotheticals—they’re threats from a man who just proved he’ll act on them.
The so-called peace president has become an unabashed imperialist, treating Latin America and beyond like a buffet of territorial acquisitions.
And the administration isn’t softening the message. Rubio is explicitly telling foreign governments to be “concerned.” That’s not diplomacy—that’s a threat dressed in a suit.
When the U.S. starts treating its allies as potential targets and its neighbors as future colonies, the entire international order starts to unravel.
This is what unchecked authoritarianism looks like in real time.