Greenland’s leader has flatly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed interest in buying the huge Arctic island from Denmark, insisting the territory is on the market.
“Greenland is ours,” the territory’s prime minister Múte Egede said in a statement on Monday. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”
Egede’s comment comes after the new president announced that he was looking to review the concept of purchasing semi-autonomous land from Denmark. During his first term in the White House, Trump expressed his preference for making a “big real estate deal” because “strategically” it would be “very good. “
In appointing Ken Howery, co-founder of PayPal and former envoy to Sweden, as ambassador to Copenhagen, Trump said in a Truth Social article on Sunday that the United States would support the purchase of Greenland from Denmark.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote.
In 2019, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen swiftly rejected Trump’s initial proposal to buy Greenland, calling it “absurd.” The then president reacted by calling her “nasty” and canceling a state visit to the Danish capital. It was later reported that cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder had planted the notion in Trump’s head; Trump then floated the idea of swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland.
Less than a month before Trump took his second chance, the president-elect made waves and sparked a foreign backlash with his threats to reclaim former U. S. territories or annex sovereign countries.
Over the weekend, he launched into a social media tirade in which he threatened to take back the Panama Canal following his court cases over “ridiculous” fees charged to shipping corporations through the Panamanian government for the right to use the waterway. The canal, built through the United States in the early 20th century, was ceded to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.
“If the principles, both ethical and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of donation are respected, then we will ask that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in its entirety and without any doubt,” Trump grumbled. Panama, please guide yourself accordingly!”
Responding to Trump’s threats, which the incoming president doubled down on during a speech on Sunday at a right-wing gathering, Panama’s conservative president José Raúl Mulino posted a video saying that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong” to his country.
“We’ll see!” » Trump responded on Truth Social, adding a message with an AI symbol of an American flag over the Canal Zone and a caption that read “Welcome to the American Canal!”
In addition, the president-elect has spent the last few weeks trolling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the idea of making Canada an American state.
“Can no one know why we subsidize Canada over $100,000,000 a year? It doesn’t make sense! Many Canadians need Canada to become the 51st state,” Trump said last week in a post to 3 a. m. on their social networking site. They would save enormously on taxes and military protection. I think it’s a wonderful idea. State 51!!
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest at Turning Point USA. In it he proposed taking over the Panama Canal.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. During the event, he proposed taking back the Panama Canal
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