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Frederiksen's priority is maintaining good relations with the Americans, because of the "Greenland map" barter that has been vital to her country's security for 80 years, and because the United States is Denmark's largest trading partner. [8] She requested an audience with Trump to discuss the Greenland question. [205]
This builds upon a prior offer from Trump to buy Greenland during his first term, which the Danish Realm refused, causing him to cancel his August 2019 visit to Denmark. [13] On January 7, 2025, Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland's capital city Nuuk alongside Charlie Kirk to hand out MAGA hats. [14]
Canada has also entered the President-elect’s sights, as Trump has floated the idea of the country becoming the 51st U.S. state. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.
Yet, just as his counterparts did in the past, Trump may find that "buying the Arctic" is not as straightforward as he thinks. In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States, renewing an interest first expressed in 2019 when he offered to buy the sprawling Arctic island from ...
President-elect Donald Trump floated the idea on Sunday that the U.S. should buy the Arctic island of Greenland because of its strategic importance to the U.S. and NATO. “For purposes of ...
A former Trump national security adviser in Trump's 2017-2021 White House said Trump first raised the idea about buying Greenland in 2017, and then became more serious about it in 2019.
In addition to Greenland, Trump said the U.S. should control the Panama Canal and offered to allow Canada to join the nation. "Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State," Trump wrote.