The incoming Trump administration has reinvoked chatter about the potential for the US buying Greenland, an concept floated throughout the president-elect’s first time period in workplace.
In his first time period, Trump tweeted a picture of coastal Greenland with an edited, shiny Trump tower constructing superimposed on the panorama. It was captioned, “I promise not to do that to Greenland!”
In August 2019, President Trump confirmed to reporters that he was enthusiastic about buying Greenland, an concept that raised each curiosity and debate.
“Denmark basically owns it,” Trump mentioned. “We’re excellent allies with Denmark, we defend Denmark like we defend giant parts of the world. So the idea got here up and I mentioned, ‘Actually I’d be.’ Strategically it’s fascinating and we’d have an interest however we’ll discuss to them a little bit bit. It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can inform you that.”
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Pictures)
The Wall Road Journal first reported Trump’s curiosity, citing sources who mentioned he had talked about the thought with “various levels of seriousness.”
The thought was shelved after Joe Biden took workplace in 2021, however has resurfaced on-line within the wake of Trump’s victory earlier this month.
Republican Congressman Mike Collins of Georgia posted what seems to be an electoral map that includes Greenland on November 7, with the territory voting GOP. It was captioned, “Venture 2029.”
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Since then, a member of parliament in Denmark has pushed again on the thought of the US buying Greenland as an American territory. In keeping with a publish from Rasmus Jarlov, the Danish parliament doesn’t intend to supply the territory to anybody, particularly the US.Â
“Greenlandic independence requires approval by the Danish parliament[sic] and a change of our structure,” wrote Jarlov. “I can assure you that there isn’t any method we might approve indepence[sic] in order that you possibly can purchase Greenland. Good fantasy however overlook it.”
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That is removed from the primary time that the US has thought of buying the strategically helpful Arctic landmass.
After World Conflict II, President Harry Truman supplied Denmark $100 million for it in 1946, however Denmark refused.
The thought truly got here up earlier in 1945, when Senator Owen Brewster, R-Maine, known as Greenland a “army necessity” supported by American army leaders.Â
Homes on the shoreline in Nuuk, Greenland. (Marli Miller/UCG/Common Pictures Group by way of Getty Pictures)
In 1946, a State Division official famous that the Joint Chiefs of Employees believed the U.S. ought to intention to buy the territory. That December, Secretary of State James Byrnes even made a proposal on to Denmark’s Overseas Minister Gustav Rasmussen, suggesting a sale is perhaps the only resolution.
American curiosity in Greenland goes again even additional. In 1867, the State Division explored shopping for each Greenland and Iceland, recognizing their strategic significance.
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If Denmark hypothetically agrees to promote Greenland to the US, it might be the most important growth of American territory in historical past, topping 1803’s Louisiana Buy.
