as Donald Trump continues the conversation Taking control of Greenlandhis eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.set off for the autonomous Danish territory on Tuesday – but Greenland and Danish officials say they want nothing What the Trumps are proposing.
“Don Jr. and my representatives have landed in Greenland,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday. “The reception was great. They and the free world need safety, security, strength and peace! This is a deal that needs to happen. MAGA. Make Greenland great again!”
Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social claiming his son has arrived in Greenland.
Donald Trump / Social Truth
In a statement, Greenland’s government said Trump Jr.’s visit was a “private person” and not an official visit, and Greenlandic officials did not meet him.
Additionally, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders”. The island “not for sale” He said, adding that “we must remain calm and stick to our principles.”
Trump Jr., appearing on a podcast Monday, said he was making the trip without any political motivation, calling it a “personal day trip.” The visit, however, had a political tone.
The president-elect has expressed a desire — as he did during his first presidency — to acquire territory in the Arctic, an area of strategic importance to the US, China, Russia and others.
And shortly after his son touched down in Greenland, Trump announced at a press conference that it would not be Excludes the use of military force or economic coercion to take control of Greenland, saying “we need it for national security.”
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The world’s largest island, Greenland, is located between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and 80 percent of it is covered by ice. The autonomous territory has about 56,000 inhabitants, most of whom are indigenous Inuit.
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark, saying in his New Year’s address that it would be a way for Greenland to break free from its colonial past. But Egede also said he is not interested in Greenland becoming part of the United States, insisting the island is not for sale.
Independence has become a major issue ahead of Greenland’s parliamentary elections. The date has not been set, but it should happen no later than April 6.
Aja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, told The Associated Press that he has Not interested in Greenland becoming part of the US And said he hears the same sentiment from his constituents.
“Most people don’t want that,” he said. “I think some people find that quite disrespectful. And as it was done and only the fact that you say that you can buy another country. “
Trump also focuses on Canada
Greenland isn’t the only locale outside the US that Trump has talked about buying and giving away to the United States; He can’t stop talking Canada becomes the 51st state.
At the same Tuesday press conference where he said he would not rule out military force or economic coercion on Greenland, he Canada was threatened with a similar action.
Asked by a reporter if he would consider the same “annexation and acquisition of Canada,” Trump replied, “No — economic power.”
“Canada and the United States, it’s really going to be something,” he said. “You get rid of the artificially drawn line and look at what it looks like, and it’s also going to be much better for national security.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded after Trump’s threat, writing there on social media.Not a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
“Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s greatest trade and security partners,” he added.
Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. “subsidizes” Canada by $200 billion in trade and spends billions more on continental defense programs like NORAD than Canada, which he says has “essentially no military.”
“We don’t need their cars, we don’t need their timber,” he continued. “We They don’t need anything. We don’t need their dairy products.
“We don’t need anything. Why are we losing $200 billion or more a year to protect Canada?”
– With files from Sean Boynton of Global News and The Associated Press
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A previous version of this article stated that Greenland is a Dutch country. Changes were made to it.
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