Trump plots to buy Greenland, as Nato ally Denmark seethes
US President Donald Trump is considering making an offer to buy Greenland, the White House said on Wednesday, despite the island’s people and controlling power Denmark making clear they are not interested. Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out force to seize the strategic Arctic island, prompting shock and anger from Denmark and other long-standing…
US President Donald Trump is considering making an offer to buy Greenland, the White House said on Wednesday, despite the island’s people and controlling power Denmark making clear they are not interested.
Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out force to seize the strategic Arctic island, prompting shock and anger from Denmark and other long-standing European allies of the United States.
After a request from Copenhagen, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would soon hold discussions with Danish representatives.
“I’ll be meeting with them next week. We’ll have those conversations with them then,” Rubio told reporters.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump and his national security team have “actively discussed” the option of buying Greenland. “His team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like,” she told reporters.
Leavitt reiterated that Trump believed it was in the US interest to acquire sparsely populated Greenland, whose size is around that of the largest US state of Alaska.
