Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said media coverage misrepresented and exaggerated the Greenland deal’s insignificance, ignoring publicly available information.
At the start of Fox News’s Evening Edit Thursday segment, host Elizabeth MacDonald showed various clips of media outlets predicting the United States possibly invading Greenland. She later asked Concha for his thoughts, specifically wondering why the U.S. would sell weapons to a country that it thinks it may attack.
“Our media really isn’t interested in that,” Concha said. “They have a predetermined narrative that they then for therefore pursue and hope that it works out somehow. But every time it doesn’t seem to now, does it? And that’s just what bias is in a nutshell.”
“Because if you think, if we listen to the media just earlier this week, that Norman Schwarzkopf, or some sort of Norman Schwarzkopf type general, was going to lead U.S. forces and Navy SEALs into a country with just 57,000 people, you can fill basically Dallas’s football stadium twice over with that number,” Concha said.
“Obviously, this proves once again, that the media pedals in three things. They pedal in fear, they pedal in hyperbole, and they … pedal in unhinged hysteria,” he said. “And again, once again, it does not work, because look at where we are now.”
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President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would not impose previously threatened tariffs on Denmark after discussions over Greenland. The administration said the agreement involves access to minerals, expanded U.S. military presence, and intelligence operations. Officials emphasized that Greenland’s sovereignty is not affected.
Before the deal, media speculation focused on the possibility of an invasion of Greenland. Even Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen warned his country of a possible invasion at a press conference Tuesday, just one day before a trade deal was made, saying, “It’s not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out,” according to Forbes.
Concha questioned why journalists would downplay the deal while simultaneously admitting they didn’t yet have all the details.
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“Oh yeah, it was Maggie Haberman basically talking about an NFL football game midway through the first quarter, trying to pretend like, ‘Oh well, this is how it’s going to end,’ when she literally admitted that she didn’t know the details of the deal,” Concha said.
Concha also disputed media claims that the agreement merely meant continued existing arrangements.
“Not so much. We checked it. We checked independently the facts about this,” he said. “It’s mineral rights. It’s the push to build more infrastructure. It’s more intelligence military ops in their military training exercises. Much more is going to get ramped up with the U.S. presence inside Greenland.”
U.S. officials have emphasized Greenland’s strategic importance amid Russian and Chinese activity, with the island’s minerals and location along new Arctic shipping routes critical to both security and economic planning.