President-elect Trump intensified his calls for the United States to respond Ownership of Greenland In a fun social media post on Monday.
The move comes as President Donald Trump Jr.'s son prepares to travel to Greenland on Tuesday. The visit will take place in his personal capacity, and he is not expected to meet government officials.
In a post on Truth Social, President-elect Trump said he “heard the people of Greenland are 'MAGA'.” The Republican attached a video allegedly showing a Greenlandic asking the United States to buy his country.
“If you could tell Trump anything, what would it be?” A woman is heard asking the man in the video.
“Buy us. Buy Greenland,” the man wearing the MAGA hat replied.
A video clip shows a Greenlander asking Trump to buy his country. (iStock/Getty Images)
The Greenlander then added that he “loves Americans” and wants to be freed from the Danish government.
“We don’t want to be colonized by the Danish government anymore,” he explained. “Every year we get robbed of our minerals from Greenland. We are the richest country in the world. We cannot use them. Denmark is using us too much.”
Trump confirmed in his message that Planning to visit Greenland In the near future, his son Donald Trump Jr. will be in the country soon. The president-elect said he intends to see some of the island's “most wonderful areas and attractions.”
“Greenland is a wonderful place, and people will benefit greatly if and when it becomes part of our nation,” Trump wrote on Monday. “We will protect and cherish it from the very evil outside world. Let's make Greenland great again!”
Trump's latest post comes two weeks after he first made headlines by expressing his support for US ownership of Greenland.
“For the purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America feels that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” the president-elect's Truth Social post said.
President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive for New Year's Eve at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 31, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
In response, the Prime Minister of Greenland Mute He declared his interest in his country gaining independence from Denmark.
“The upcoming new electoral period, in cooperation with citizens, must take these new steps, based on the foundations that have already been laid,” Egedi said. “It is time for us to take a step and shape our future, as well as with whom we will cooperate closely and who our business partners will be.”
Trump has considered buying Greenland for several years. In 2019, he floated the idea of buying Greenland, calling it a “big real estate deal.”
“A lot of things could be done,” Trump said at the time. “It hurts Denmark so bad because they lose almost $700 million a year because of it.” “So they would suffer a big loss, and strategically for the United States, that would be great. We are a great ally of Denmark and we help and protect it.”
During an interview with “Fox News Sunday” about Trump's comments, then-White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow confirmed that the president's feelings were genuine.
“Greenland is a strategic place there, and it has a lot of valuable minerals,” Kudlow explained at the time.
Houses on the coast in Nuuk, Greenland. (Marlie Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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“I don't want to predict an outcome. I'm just saying that the president, who knows a thing or two about buying real estate, wants to take a look.”
Fox News' Nick Gevas and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
