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Trump declared Tuesday he wouldn’t exclude utilizing financial or navy coercion to realize management of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory, and the Panama Canal. “I’m not gonna decide to that. No. It could be that you simply’ll must do one thing,” he stated.
“We want Greenland for nationwide safety functions,” he added. “People actually don’t even know if Denmark has any authorized proper to it, but when they do they need to give it up as a result of we’d like it for nationwide safety.”
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., landed in Greenland on Tuesday on what he known as a non-public go to. His entourage included the elder Trump’s personnel director, Sergio Gor, and bombastic conservative activist Charlie Kirk; the U.S. president-elect described the group as his “reps.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who rebuffed Trump’s first proposal to buy Greenland in 2019, calling it “absurd,” had already reiterated Tuesday — earlier than Trump’s refusal to rule out buying Greenland by pressure — that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
“There is loads of help among the many folks of Greenland that Greenland is just not on the market and won’t be sooner or later both,” she added.
Rasmussen defended Frederiksen’s remarks, which some in Denmark criticized as weak, insisting she was not “wavering” in her help for Greenland.
