President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to send his eldest son, Don Jr., to Greenland as part of an effort to make it part of the United States, despite repeatedly denying that Greenland is for sale. I admitted it.
President Trump acknowledged the fact-finding trip while sharing a video of a Greenlander wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat asking the next U.S. president to “buy us.”
President Trump: “I hear the people of Greenland are MAGA'' Posted on his Truth Social Late Monday.
“My son Don Jr. and various delegates will be there to see the most amazing areas and sights,” he said of the mineral-rich Arctic island, which is an autonomous Danish territory.
“Greenland is a wonderful place and its people would benefit tremendously if it became part of our country.
“We will protect it and cherish it from a very vicious outside world. Let's make Greenland great again!”
Don Jr. and other representatives will visit the strategically located island on Tuesday, but he will not meet with any government officials, sources familiar with the trip told the Post. .
The Greenlanders who asked President Trump to “buy us” also said in the video, “We don't want to be colonized by the Danish government anymore.”
In what he called a “massive real estate deal” during his previous term, the president-elect announced that the U.S. would gain “ownership” of Greenland in an effort to expand U.S. territory to include the Danish-owned island. He expressed his desire.
But as rhetoric around the island intensified, Greenland's Prime Minister Moute Egede insisted the mineral-rich land was “not for sale and never will be.”
In his New Year's speech, Egede said the island “seeks independence from the Kingdom of Denmark as part of a movement to remove the shackles of colonialism.”
“The time has come for us to step up and shape our own future, both in terms of who we work closely with and who our trading partners are,” the prime minister said in the weeks following Trump's threats. Ta.
Denmark's King Frederick also appears to be rejecting President Trump's potential takeover of Greenland by changing his country's coat of arms to more prominently feature the polar bear symbol representing Greenland and the Faroe Islands. According to the Independent.
President Trump said it was “absolutely necessary” for the United States to own and manage Greenland, which is home to about 56,000 mostly Inuit people.
Sources close to the president told the Post that the president is not only interested in acquiring Greenland but also in retaking the Panama Canal as U.S. territory as part of his America First strategy against China and Russia. “I'm taking this 100% seriously,” he said.
The Greenland purchase would be the largest land addition in U.S. history, surpassing the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which nearly doubled the area of the United States at the time.
