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President-elect Donald Trump said he wants the US to own and control Greenland — a desire he made known during his first presidential term — as he announced his pick for US ambassador to ...
"Greenland is ours," Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede said this week, in response to Trump's suggestion. "We are not for sale and will never be for sale," he said. "We must not lose our long ...
In Donald Trump’s post announcing his pick for ambassador to Denmark on Sunday, the president-elect again suggested he wants the U.S. to buy and control Greenland. The president-elect said he ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal.Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20.
She previously opposed Trump's overtures for owning Greenland in 2019, and Trump cancelled a visit to Denmark in response. Greenland is of strategic importance to Denmark, Europe, and the U.S ...
In 2024, Trump stated a further proposal for the United States to purchase Greenland from Denmark, saying a post on Truth Social that “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
Because the island can declare independence, it can affiliate with the United States. "The only way Trump would be able to buy Greenland would be to give them an offer they couldn't turn down", Ulrik Pram Gad of Aalborg University said. [26] Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen of the Royal Danish Defence College predicted difficult negotiations for Denmark.
President-elect Trump said Sunday evening on social media that the U.S. owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity,” in a statement announcing Ken Howery as his nominee to serve as ambassador ...