Donald Trump has boldly announced ‘we’re 100% getting Greenland’.
In a new interview, Trump has admitted that the US will ‘get Greenland’ and that nothing is ‘off the table’.
Greenland is the world’s biggest island and has its own territory within Denmark. Around 57k people live there and the land is full of natural resources, which is appealing to Trump.
However, their premier, Mute Egede, has said they ‘don’t want to be Americans’.
JD Vance went with his wife on 28 March to visit the American military base in Greenland and shared that ‘it’s a big issue’ that’s ‘only going to get bigger’.
Now, in an interview with NBC, Trump said: “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%.”
“Good possibility that we could do it without military force,” he said, adding, “I don’t take anything off the table.”
“You have ships sailed outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we’re not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States,” he said.
While Vance said, on his visit to Greenland: “Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.”
“You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people.
“That has to change.”
“I think that they ultimately will partner with the United States,” Vance added.
“We could make them much more secure.
“We could do a lot more protection.
“And I think they’d fare a lot better economically as well.”
Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said: “Many accusations and many allegations have been made. And of course we are open to criticism,”.
“But let me be completely honest: we do not appreciate the tone in which it is being delivered. This is not how you speak to your close allies.
“And I still consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies.
