The leader of Greenland has flat-out rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed interest in purchasing the massive Arctic island from Denmark, insisting that the territory is not on the market.
“Greenland is ours,” the territory’s prime minister, Mute Egede, said in a statement on Monday. “We are not for sale and never will be. We will have to 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. “
Naming Paypal co-founder and former envoy to Sweden Ken Howery as his ambassador to Copenhagen, Trump declared in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the United States would once again look at snapping up Greenland from Denmark.
“For the purposes of national security and world freedom, the United States of America believes that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote.
In 2019, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen temporarily rejected Trump’s initial proposal to buy Greenland, calling it “absurd. ” The then-president responded by calling her “disgusting” and canceling a state stopover in the Danish capital. He later reported that cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder had planted the concept in Trump’s head; Trump then floated the concept of swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland.
Less than a month before Trump took his second chance, the president-elect caused a sensation and sparked foreign backlash with his threats to recapture former U. S. territories or annex sovereign countries.
Over the weekend, he launched a tirade on social media in which he threatened to reclaim the Panama Canal following his court cases over the “ridiculous” fees charged to shipping corporations through the Panamanian government for the right to use the waterway. built through the United States in the early 20th century, ceded to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.
“If the principles, whether ethical or legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not respected, then we will ask for the Panama Canal to be returned to us, in its entirety and without question,” Trump grumbled. “To the guilty in Panama, Please be guided 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!”
Additionally, the president-elect has spent recent 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? This doesn’t make sense! “Many Canadians need Canada to become the 51st state,” Trump said last week in a 3 a. m. message. 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. At the event, he proposed to seize the Panama Canal.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest at Turning Point USA. In it he proposed taking over the Panama Canal.
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