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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States, renewing an interest first expressed in 2019 when he offered to buy the sprawling Arctic island from ...
US President-elect Donald Trump says owning the Arctic island is vital for national security, but experts say he may also be eyeing other aspects of Greenland such as its trove of natural resources
If Trump had actually worked out a deal to purchase Greenland, multiple media outlets would’ve reported it, yet none have. In fact, the opposite is true. On Jan. 8, Snopes debunked the claim.
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 .
D onald Trump spent a noteworthy chunk of the transition period provoking controversy—and insulting NATO allies ... the proposal to buy Greenland makes more sense if one understands the history ...
A former Trump national security adviser in Trump's 2017-2021 White House said Trump first raised the idea about buying Greenland in 2017, and then became more serious about it in 2019.
Because the island can declare independence, it can affiliate with the United States. "The only way Trump would be able to buy Greenland would be to give them an offer they couldn't turn down", Ulrik Pram Gad of Aalborg University said. [6] Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen of the Royal Danish Defence College predicted difficult negotiations for Denmark.
In 2019 both Greenland and Denmark rejected Trump's offer to buy the island. When Greenland was still a colony, the U.S. under then-President Harry Truman sought to buy the island as a strategic ...