President Donald Trump said he believed the United States will control Greenland, after he has shown renewed interest in obtaining self -rule Danish lands in recent weeks.
“I think we will get it,” he told reporters on the journalists on the presidential plane, adding that the 56,000 people of the island “want to be with us.”
His comments come after reports that Danish Prime Minister Miti Friedrixen insisted that Greenland was not for sale in a fiery phone call to the president last week.
Trump raised for the first time the possibility of buying the region during his first term in 2019, and said that the United States' control over Greenland was “an absolute necessity” for international security.
“I think people want to be with us,” Trump said in the press room on the presidential plane.
He added: “I do not really know what Denmark demands this, but it will be a very uncomfortable work if they do not allow this to happen because in order to protect the free world.”
“I think we will get Greenland because it is a matter of freedom in the world,” Trump added.
“The United States has nothing to do with except that we can provide freedom. They cannot.”
