In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Saturday, President Donald Trump mentioned he’s actively pursuing annexing Greenland and has “completely” had actual conversations about taking up the semiautonomous Danish territory.
“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump mentioned, including that there’s a “good risk that we may do it with out army drive” however that he wouldn’t “take something off the desk.”
Trump’s claims come after Vice President JD Vance and Second Girl Usha Vance visited Greenland this week and went to Pituffik Area Base, a US Area Drive base there, to talk to service members.
When Trump was requested what annexing Greenland would do for worldwide relations with Russia and the way the transfer might be perceived by the remainder of the world, the president mentioned he wasn’t involved.
“I don’t actually take into consideration that. I don’t actually care. Greenland’s a really separate topic, very completely different. It’s worldwide peace. It’s worldwide safety and energy.” Earlier this week, Trump mentioned that the US would “go so far as we now have to go” to get management of Greenland. Trump has reportedly been musing about shopping for or buying Greenland since 2019.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede described the go to by Vance and others this week as a “very aggressive American strain in opposition to the Greenlandic neighborhood.” A strain marketing campaign, he mentioned, that the worldwide neighborhood ought to rebuke.
“We’re not Individuals, we aren’t Danes as a result of we’re Greenlanders,” Egede mentioned on social media in response to Trump’s feedback this week. “That is what the Individuals and their leaders want to grasp, we can’t be purchased and we can’t be ignored.”
Within the round 10-minute dialog between Trump and Welker, they mentioned the president’s rising Greenland fixation and the monetary impacts of the 25 percent tariffs on all foreign-made vehicles and automobile components that Trump introduced he would impose. The president additionally mentioned that he wouldn’t hearth members of his administration who have been within the Sign group chat discussing assault plans in Yemen as The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg sat in unbeknownst to them.
On the decision, Trump known as the Sign story “faux information” and a “witch hunt” in opposition to the cupboard members who have been within the group chat—which included nationwide safety adviser Michael Waltz, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vance, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and others.
