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A map showing the locations of the United States (orange) and Greenland (green) Since the 19th century, the United States has considered, and made, several attempts to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark, as it did with the Danish West Indies in 1917.
This war over weather intelligence helped reignite U.S. interest in Greenland. Germany occupied Denmark, enabling it to receive data from Danish weather stations on the island. Although this ...
In 2019, Senator Tom Cotton wrote in a New York Times op-ed that there are strategic benefits to buying Greenland, pointing to China trying to buy an old U.S. naval base on the island in 2016 and ...
On 6 February 2025, a poll conducted by USA Today between 7 January 2025 and 10 January 2025 was released which showed that only 11% of Americans said that Trump should purchase or annex Greenland. 29% of Americans said that they thought that acquiring Greenland was a good but unrealistic idea, and 53% of Americans said that they don't support ...
Greenland is the world’s largest island and home to more than 56,000 people. A former Danish colony and now an autonomous territory of Denmark, it occupies a unique geopolitical position ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20.
To understand Trump’s interest in Greenland, Bolton said, just look at a map of the world from the vantage point of the North Pole. Four NATO countries – the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway ...
Trump previously indicated that he wanted to purchase Greenland back in 2019. At the time, he was mostly drawn to the country’s natural resources and geopolitical relevance .