Trump’s Plan to Acquire Greenland Revealed, Including $10,000 Payments to Each Resident

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A new report has detailed some of President Donald Trump’s plans to acquire Greenland, including a potential $10,000 annual payment to each of the island’s more than 50,000 residents.

Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman reported this week for The New York Times — citing a US official and someone briefed on the matter — that a plan exists in the administration, which includes public relations efforts to convince Greenlanders that joining the United States is in their best interest.

Denmark officials have pushed back on Trump’s repeated plans to take control of Greenland, but the president told Congress last month, “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.” Denmark subsidizes Greenland through hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

The National Security Council has met multiple times to discuss Trump’s Greenland plan, according to The Times. Advisers have discussed using advertising and social media to emphasize the connection between Greenland and Alaska through the Inuit people. Greenland’s own Inuit population stems from people who migrated from Alaska.

The plan does not reportedly include a military option, with an emphasis on “persuasion over coercion.”

The Trump administration is also reportedly considering $10,000 annual payments to Greenlanders, the cost of which would be offset by mining Greenland’s natural resources like gold, uranium, and oil.

Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland last month. He told Fox News that Greenland is “important” to US “national security.”

“It’s really important to our national security,” he said. “There are sea lanes there that the Chinese use, that the Russians use that, frankly, Denmark – which controls Greenland – it’s not doing its job and being a good ally. So you have to ask yourself, how are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?”