{"id":2803,"date":"2026-01-31T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:32:46","slug":"on-the-gerard-butler-film-greenland-trump-thinks-its-real-why-he-wants-the-icy-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/on-the-gerard-butler-film-greenland-trump-thinks-its-real-why-he-wants-the-icy-island\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Gerard Butler film “Greenland”: Maybe Trump Thinks It’s Real, Why He Wants the Icy Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So as not to be considered too \u201celite\u201d I have actually watched not only the original Greenland<\/em> (2020) film, starring Gerard Butler, but have also watched Greenland: Migration<\/em> (2026), the sequel, to boot. And I\u2019m thinking either Trump or one of his minions watched it and didn\u2019t quite understand the idea of \u201cfiction.\u201d They want that island. It\u2019s where we\u2019ll all go when the comet hits! Or \u201ccomets,\u201d in the movie anyway. I liked Greenland: Migration<\/em> the best. Some good footage of London (the comet-destruction version), including the English Channel as a landfill\/canyon. Next up: Disaster movie titled America in Flames: The Trump Years<\/em>. Actually the tagline on poster below is good for both movies: “Hope is uncharted territory.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So as not to be considered too \u201celite\u201d I have actually watched not only the original Greenland (2020) film, starring Gerard Butler, but have also watched Greenland: Migration (2026), the sequel, to boot. And I\u2019m thinking either Trump or one of his minions watched … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,9,284,16,1],"tags":[285,85],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenland-the-film","category-climate-change","category-disaster-movies","category-film","category-uncategorized","tag-greenland-the-film","tag-fiction-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}