Trump "aggressively pushed" for Greenland acquisition in conversation with Danish PM

Kaare Dybvadintegration Minister

It is important to the government that Greenlanders can live in Denmark without being met with prejudice, which unfortunately is not the reality today,

Integration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said in a statement

Recent events have clearly shown that racism against Greenlanders exists in certain circles and especially on social media,

Aaja Chemnitz, who represents Greenland in the Danish parliament, was quoted saying in Monday's statement

If Trump tried to buy Greenland, he would have to ask London first,

Høyem told The Sunday Times

The Danes are utterly freaked out by this,

they added

In the end, it's all about keeping the country strong economically, and the things that the president is doing and the things he's talking about, I think there's a very compelling argument on Panama, a very compelling argument on Greenland and optimism in America that we haven't seen in a long time,

Thune said

I mean, one of the reasons you see other countries - Saudis, and others - wanting to invest in America is because they see America now as an attractive place to invest, knowing full well that they're going to have a different economic environment to deal with when it comes to taxes, and regulation, and energy, and a whole range of other issues,

Thune said

Rory Stewarta previous episode,

Trump is quite different from almost all previous leaders since the early Middle Ages. He does not even pretend - with Greenland or Gaza or international aid - to be acting for just reasons. The impact of this naked abuse of power will be staggering."

Rory Stewart, former British Conservative MP and political podcast host, wrote on X

I think there's been a real -- this has been a sluggish country, a country that's been bogged down under the weight of government regulation, and red tape, and taxation, and this is a president and a team working with him in the House and the Senate that wants to liberate the American people and investors,

he added

I am hearing that the people of Greenland are 'MAGA'

In a post published on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote

I don't really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow that to happen because it's for the protection of the free world,

Trump told reporters

It has nothing to do with the United States other than that we're the one that can provide freedom. They can't,

he added

Greenland is almost a kind of ground zero for how the Arctic has become more and more geopolitically and strategically significant,

according to Kalus Dodds, a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London

As the Arctic ice flow has changed in the recent past, and is projected to continue changing, opening up Arctic shipping routes, you have several lucrative potentials there,

said Sadler

With China's rise and its tripling the size of its ICBM ballistic missile arsenal, Greenland plays a national defense role because of its geography,

said Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation

I think we’re going to have it,

he said

Robert Briegergeneral

That would send a strong signal and could contribute to stability in the region,

Brieger said in the interview published Saturday

In my view, it would make perfect sense not only to station U.S. forces in Greenland, as is currently the case, but also to consider stationing EU soldiers there,

Robert Brieger, chairman of the European Union Military Committee, the bloc’s highest military body, told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag

Ultimately, however, this is a political decision in which many interests must be taken into account,

he added

I view it as, honestly, a country that should be a state,

he told reporters

I do believe Greenland, we’ll get because it really has to do with freedom of the world,

he said