Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasised that Greenland shouldn’t be on the market, as President-elect Trump has ramped up requires the U.S. to accumulate the island.
Frederiksen’s feedback to a Danish TV station come because the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., paid a go to to Greenland on Tuesday. The journey is a private one and Trump Jr. shouldn’t be anticipated to satisfy with any authorities officers.Â
The Danish prime minister mentioned in an interview that Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede “has been very, very clear – that there’s a lot of help among the many folks of Greenland that Greenland shouldn’t be on the market and won’t be sooner or later both,” in accordance with The Hill.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a ceremony on the Danish monument exterior of Sainte Marie du Mont, Normandy, June 6, 2024. (AP Photograph/Jeremias Gonzalez)
She reportedly instructed Danish tv station TV 2 that Greenland will select its personal future and mentioned, “We have to keep calm and persist with our ideas,” whereas praising the U.S. as a key Danish ally.Â
In a Reality Social submit on Monday, Trump mentioned he was “listening to that the folks of Greenland are ‘MAGA’.” The Republican connected a video that purportedly exhibits a Greenlander asking the U.S. to purchase his nation.
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Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix through AP)
Trump’s son arrived Tuesday in Nuuk, the Arctic territory’s capital. He met with locals, visited cultural websites and shot video for a podcast. The president-elect posted a video displaying a airplane emblazoned with the phrase “TRUMP” touchdown in Nuuk.
“Don Jr. and my Reps touchdown in Greenland,” Trump wrote. “The reception has been nice. They, and the Free World, want security, safety, energy, and PEACE! This can be a deal that should occur. MAGA. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”Â
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President-elect Trump proposed buying Greenland in 2019 throughout his first time period. (Getty Photos)
Trump additionally spoke with locals over speakerphone in video that supporters shared on-line.
A supply acquainted instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday that Trump Jr. is “popping in for a fast day-long journey to shoot some enjoyable video content material for podcasting. He is not going to be assembly with any authorities officers or political figures.”
Trump has beforehand flirted with the thought of shopping for the territory from Denmark, claiming it’s of significant nationwide safety curiosity to america.Â
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At a press convention at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property Tuesday afternoon, the president-elect once more mentioned, “Denmark ought to give it up.”Â
Fox Information Digital’s Stephen Sorace, Brooke Singman and The Related Press contributed to this report.
