Greenland’s New PM Goes Scorched Earth on Trump’s Takeover Bid: ‘The U.S. Is Not Getting That’
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The newly minted prime minister of Greenland is not mincing words when it comes to President Donald Trump’s bid to take over the independent Danish territory.
“Let me make this clear,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who assumed office on Friday, told the Daily Express. “The U.S. is not getting that. We don’t belong to anyone else. We decide our own future. We must not act out of fear. We must respond with peace, dignity and unity.
“And it is through these values that we must clearly, clearly and calmly show the American president that Greenland is ours,” he added. “It was like that yesterday. That’s how it is today. And that’s how it will be in the future.”
Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland has been a constant talking point since his inauguration.
“I think we’re going to get it one way or the other,” Trump said during his address to Congress in February. “We’re going to get it.”
The notion has support among Republican lawmakers.
In February, Rep. Earl Carter (R-GA) introduced a bill authorizing a Greenland takeover and rebranding it as Red, White, and Blueland.
“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” the congressman wrote.
Last week, Vice President JD Vance hammered Denmark while visiting Greenland with wife Usha Vance, accusing the NATO ally of not doing enough to secure Greenland’s infrastructure.
“When I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that in some ways, with all due respect to our Danish allies, they had not kept pace. There was a lot of criticism from Denmark, a lot attacks at the Trump administration, at the president, at me, at others in our administration for saying the obvious, which is that Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe,” Vance said atthe Pituffik Space Base.
