The incoming Trump administration has reinvoked chatter about the potential for the USA buying Greenland, an thought floated through the president-elect’s first time period in workplace.
In his first time period, Trump tweeted a picture of coastal Greenland with an edited, shiny Trump tower constructing superimposed on the panorama. It was captioned, “I promise not to do that to Greenland!”
In August 2019, President Trump confirmed to reporters that he was concerned about buying Greenland, an concept that raised each curiosity and debate.
“Denmark basically owns it,” Trump stated. “We’re superb allies with Denmark, we defend Denmark like we defend giant parts of the world. So the idea got here up and I stated, ‘Definitely I’d be.’ Strategically it’s attention-grabbing and we’d have an interest however we’ll speak to them somewhat bit. It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can inform you that.”
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Pictures)
The Wall Avenue Journal first reported Trump’s curiosity, citing sources who stated he had talked about the concept with “various levels of seriousness.”
The thought was shelved after Joe Biden took workplace in 2021, however has resurfaced on-line within the wake of Trump’s victory earlier this month.
Republican Congressman Mike Collins of Georgia posted what seems to be an electoral map that includes Greenland on November 7, with the territory voting GOP. It was captioned, “Venture 2029.”
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Since then, a member of parliament in Denmark has pushed again on the concept of the USA buying Greenland as an American territory. In line with a submit from Rasmus Jarlov, the Danish parliament doesn’t intend to supply the territory to anybody, particularly the USA.
“Greenlandic independence requires approval by the Danish parliament[sic] and a change of our structure,” wrote Jarlov. “I can assure you that there is no such thing as a manner we’d approve indepence[sic] in order that you can purchase Greenland. Good fantasy however neglect it.”
That is removed from the primary time that the USA has thought of buying the strategically helpful Arctic landmass.
After World Battle II, President Harry Truman provided Denmark $100 million for it in 1946, however Denmark refused.
The thought truly got here up earlier in 1945, when Senator Owen Brewster, R-Maine, known as Greenland a “army necessity” supported by American army leaders.
Homes on the shoreline in Nuuk, Greenland. (Marli Miller/UCG/Common Pictures Group by way of Getty Pictures)
In 1946, a State Division official famous that the Joint Chiefs of Workers believed the U.S. ought to purpose to buy the territory. That December, Secretary of State James Byrnes even made a suggestion on to Denmark’s Overseas Minister Gustav Rasmussen, suggesting a sale is perhaps the best resolution.
American curiosity in Greenland goes again even additional. In 1867, the State Division explored shopping for each Greenland and Iceland, recognizing their strategic significance.
If Denmark hypothetically agrees to promote Greenland to the USA, it will be the biggest growth of American territory in historical past, topping 1803’s Louisiana Buy.
