The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment. There are many uncertainties, including how serious Trump is about buying Greenland or using tariffs to force a deal. “With Trump, tariffs are a go-to tool. He is trying to get their attention,” said Christine McDaniel...
Trump is not the first US president to float the idea of buying Greenland. In 1867, when President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska, he alsoconsideredpurchasing Greenland. At the end of World War II, the Truman administration offered Denmark$100 million for the island, according to documents first...
“Greenland is intimately connected with our security for a lot of reasons and has been visibly since World War II,” John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Trump when he first floated the idea of buying Greenland, told The Free Press recently. Bolton added: “We know from r...
"Trump is buying Greenland? Hopefully, this is a joke, but otherwise a terrible thought that carries a risk of Greenland’s militarization and less independence for the Greenlanders, apart from a great loss for Denmark," former Foreign Minister Martin Ligedaard stressed. "Well. But I believ...
The renewed interest in the Arctic island comes amid heightened tensions between Greenland and its former colonial ruler Denmark.
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Múte Egede said in a statement, according to reports from BBC and The Guardian. In late 2019, Trumpsaid that buying Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, was “...
Trump has raised the matter in the past. In late 2019, Trumpsaid buying Greenlandwas “strategically” interesting,provoking a frustrated responsefrom Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. “Denmark essentially owns it. We’re very good allies with Denmark. We protect Denmark like we protect lar...
“The majority in Greenland find it quite scary and quite uncomfortable … that the US, in a disrespectful way, is showing that they would like to be buying Greenland or controlling Greenland,” Aaja Chemnitz, a member of the Danish parliament and a Greenland resident, told CNN’s Erin ...
Buying Greenland would ensure continued access to the base, although there is no suggestion that it is at risk. Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, in northern Greenland, has been strategically vital ever since the first years of the Cold War - Ritzau Scanpix/Reuters ...
Trump has raised the matter in the past. In late 2019, Trumpsaid buying Greenlandwas “strategically” interesting,provoking a frustrated responsefrom Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. “Denmark essentially owns it. We’re very good allies with Denmark. We protect Denmark like we protect lar...