Donald Trump, the next president, expressed his renewed interest on Sunday in the United States gaining control of Denmark’s Greenland independent territory.
“The United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity for purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” Trump stated in a statement announcing his appointment of Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark.
Mute Egede, the prime minister of Greenland, has already reacted negatively to Trump’s comments, stating in a statement that “Greenland is ours.” We are not, and never will be, for sale. We must not give up on our protracted fight for liberty,” Reuters said.
During his first term as president, Trump made several proposals to buy Greenland.
In 2019, he informed reporters about the island, We would be interested in it from a strategic standpoint, but we will speak with them briefly.
“We must first determine whether they are interested,” he continued. We’ll see what happens because they’re losing a lot of money.
Trump canceled a trip he had planned to Greenland after Denmark said that the territory was not for sale. According to his tweet, Denmark is “a very special country with incredible people, but I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland.”
Trump asked him and other officials in 2018 if the United States could exchange Greenland for Puerto Rico because, according to Trump, the island was filthy and its citizens were impoverished. Miles Taylor, the chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration, told MSNBC in 2020. According to him, the discussion took place before to DHS representatives visiting Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, to aid with Hurricane Maria recovery.
The biggest island in the world, Greenland is located between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans and is officially a part of North America. There are roughly 57,000 people living in Greenland, despite the fact that most of it is covered in ice.
At least twice, in 1867 and 1946, when President Harry S. Truman suggested paying $100 million to acquire Greenland, the United States has contemplated acquiring the territory. The offer was turned down by Denmark.
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