President Trump said Denmark would “cooperate” with the potential sale of Greenland, stressing that the United States and other countries need the Arctic island to strengthen international security in the region.
“Greenland is a great place. We need fair international security, and I'm confident Denmark will help.”President Trump announced Monday night in the Oval Office that He told reporters while signing the .
Since winning the 2024 presidential election, President Trump has expressed a desire to make Greenland, an autonomous region ruled by Denmark, part of the United States, and to own the Arctic island with a population of more than 56,000 people. said, “It's absolutely necessary.'' ”
The president also hasn't ruled out using the military to accomplish that goal.
“The people of Greenland are not happy with Denmark. I think they are happy with us. “We have a representative, and my son and the representative went there two weeks ago. We'll go there and see what happens because they like us too, but we need Greenland. We don't need it for us. We need it for international security.” Trump said Monday, referring to his son, President Donald Trump. Trump Jr. visited the territory two weeks ago.
“Russian ships are everywhere, Chinese ships are everywhere, there are warships and they can't sustain it,” he added.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen said no country could rely solely on other countries for help.
“Of course, you can't create a world order in which every country is free to do exactly what it wants, no matter what you call it, if you're a big enough power,” Rasmussen told reporters on Tuesday. According to To Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede has previously said that Greenland is not for sale but is open to doing business with the United States.
“We don't want to be Danish,” Egede told Fox News last week. “We don't even want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders.”
“We will always remain part of NATO. We will always remain a strong partner of the United States,” he added. “We are close neighbors. Our company has been around for 80 years, and I think we have a lot of things to do together in the future.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told President Trump in a phone call last Wednesday that Greenland's independence was a decision for the island itself.
A Suffolk University/USA Today poll last week showed that more than half of U.S. voters, 53 percent, do not support the U.S. occupation of Greenland.
