President-elect Donald Trump shared his renewed curiosity Sunday within the U.S. controlling the autonomous territory of Greenland, which is owned by Denmark.
“For functions of National Security and Freedom all through the World, the United States of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump wrote in an announcement asserting that he had chosen Ken Howery to function ambassador to Denmark.
Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, has already rejected Trump’s remarks, saying in an announcement: “Greenland is ours. We will not be on the market and can by no means be on the market. We should not lose our lengthy battle for freedom,” in response to Reuters.
Trump floated buying Greenland throughout his first time period as president on multiple occasions.
He told reporters in 2019 concerning the island, “Strategically it’s fascinating, and we’d have an interest, however we’ll speak to them just a little bit.”
“First we’ve to search out out whether or not or not they’ve any curiosity,” he added. “They’re shedding an incredible amount of cash, so we’ll see what occurs.”
At that time, Denmark mentioned that Greenland was not on the market, which caused Trump to cancel a trip he had scheduled to the country. He mentioned in a tweet that Denmark is “a really particular nation with unimaginable folks, however primarily based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s feedback, that she would have little interest in discussing the acquisition of Greenland, I will likely be suspending our assembly scheduled in two weeks for one more time.”
Miles Taylor, who was chief of workers on the Department of Homeland Security within the first Trump administration, informed MSNBC in 2020 that Trump had requested him and different officers in 2018 whether or not the U.S. could swap Greenland for Puerto Rico as a result of, in Trump’s phrases, “Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.” He mentioned the dialog occurred earlier than DHS officers traveled to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, to assist with the restoration from Hurricane Maria.
Greenland, between the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean, is technically a part of North America and is the most important island on the earth. While a majority of Greenland is roofed in ice, about 57,000 folks dwell there.
The U.S. has thought-about buying Greenland at the least twice, together with in 1867 after which in 1946, when President Harry S. Truman proposed shopping for it for $100 million. Denmark rejected the provide.
