American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.

[mc@toot.houbahouba.de]

@Ilka4You maybe wrong video-link? and totally unrelated @randahl

[kittyjynx@mastodon.social]

@randahl https://gcaptain.com/trump-announces-greenland-hospital-ship-mission-as-mercy-and-comfort-sit-in-alabama-shipyard/ Both of the Navy's hospital ships are in dry dock and will be for at least the next several months. He didn't even bother to check if our hospital ships were available to deploy before lying.

[gvs@rebelbase.site]

@randahl
Though you are absolutely right pointing out the absurdity. There is no such thing as free healthcare. Taxpayers fund it and mostly pay a lot more to cover non-taxpayers then they would just paying their own bills. I spend thousands of euros a year on this so called 'free' healthcare.

[sonjdol@ohai.social]

@randahl Maybe you should think about the strategy behind this. It's obvious there is more to this. Maybe he's preparing for US soldiers being wounded. Or somebody b ing hurt. Maybe the hospital is a rude and will be filled with soldiers. Think a few steps ahead

[infosecstuc@infosec.exchange]

@Ilka4You my point: it depends how long the hospital ship is stationed there, lets say 6 months, that might be 700 referrals that would otherwise go to Denmark that could be taken care of nearer home.

Of course the situation is a little more complicated than that, as to fly from one area to another in Greenland you may need to take flights via Denmark anyway - only a third of the population lives in Nuuk.

I agree, it's total Bullshit, the question for me is, does it bring Trump, arch Populist that he is, nearer to his goal of persuading Greenland's citizens that joining the US is a good idea?

Not to forget, that It also puts the DK or Greenlandic governments in the awkward position of refusing "help."

Currently the Mercy's is showing as in Mobile. The Comfort's transponder has been silent for 17 Days - so it may be underway with one of the task forces.

IDK It could all just be Trump living rent free in our heads again by flooding the zone. Probably this.

@randahl

[idahobucks@mastodon.social]

@randahl I just read the two hospital boats we have are in dry dock for repairs and that there was a US sub off the coast of Greenland that had a medical emergency for a sailor that the Danish navy rescued and took to a hospital. It seems Trump is confused by this.

[infosecstuc@infosec.exchange]

@Ilka4You and the Mercy is undergoing a refit, so it really is just flooding the zone.

Kindly forget I said anything

@randahl

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@mc for me it shows 10 seconds of the trailer of Happy Madison production saying "terrific" in exactly the tone that popped up in my head reading this farce. If it does something other for you i am sorry.
@randahl

[mc@toot.houbahouba.de]

@Ilka4You no prob. thx @randahl

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@randahl another job for „red worm“. #MehrDitteWagen #RedWormToRescue

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@randahl Who said it would be free? This is trump you're talking about. It wouldn't be free.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@randahl

working with the notorious white supremacist & pro-genocide/anti-masker Jeff Landry, he is not sending a "hospital boat" to any f'n body, that's a smokescreen for something else

we are literally talking about the same Jeff Landry who, when it was revealed early in the pandemic around June 2020 that POC were dying at 3x the rate of white people, he sued the state of Louisiana to end the mask mandate

whatever he's sending, it will NOT be healthy for indigenous populations

[faithinbones@mastodon.social]

@peachfront @randahl theyre trying to cover up the fact that a very sick American sailor on a submarine in Greenland's water had to be evacuated to #Greenland to be taken care of. 🤫

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@huntingdon He's not the problem. He's only the most glaring symptom of a much older, deeper, and wider problem. The president has no power to deprive his own people of heathcare and insurance. That's under the control of Congress; THEY are the ones doing the depriving. They did before he came along, even before he was born. Congress also has the last word on public health infrastructure.

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@wesdym

Trump amply demonstrates that power extends well beyond that legally authorized under a constitution or founding political document.

Your comment ignores, for example, the power Trump and his patrons, many tech bros and other billionaires, wield over Republicans in Congress.

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@randahl

Pays to remember the difference between actually doing something and a Trump Promise to do something. Never the twain shall meet.

[voxclamans@infosec.exchange]

@randahl
a padded cell will be more suitable.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@Jumpmed @bougiewonderland @deadDuck @AnnieBuddy @randahl Came here to say this, was not disappointed.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@rjohnston @randahl Shades of Titanic?

[j2bryson@mastodon.social]

@randahl Except there isn't one available. Yeah, maybe the issue was Denmark evacuated the sub with their helicopter, but the American submariner was actally taken to the Greenland hospital, not to Denmark. All two hospital ships the US has are being fixed right now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/22/trump-greenland-hospital-ship/