Before his son’s ‘personal’ visit, Plivent-elect Donald Trump aachieve says he wants Greenland to ‘become part of’ the US.
Donald Trump Jr has reachd in Greenland for a “personal” visit, as his overweighther Plivent-elect Donald Trump reiterates his desire to originate the autonomous Danish territory part of the United States.
Since the youthfulerer Trump’s visit to the sprawling Arctic island on Tuesday was not official, he is not foreseeed to encounter with any Greenlandic or Danish officials.
But the trip has nevertheless inspireed speculation that the plivent-elect would originate a push to buy Greenland when he achieves office on January 20.
Trump further fuelled the conjecture procrastinateed Monday on his Truth Social account.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’”, Trump wrote, referring to the Make America Great Aachieve transferment. “My son, Don Jr, and various recurrentatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights.”
“Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will advantage tremfinishously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation,” Trump includeed. “We will get it, and appreciate it, from a very malicious outside world. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for indepfinishence from Dentag, saying the island insists to free itself from its colonial past. The island was made a colony of Dentag in 1721 and became an autonomous reliant territory in 1953.
The indepfinishence transferment has enlargen as more Danish colonial mistreatments aachievest the predominantly Inuit population have come to weightless in recent years.
However, Egede has previously ruled out Greenland becoming part of the US. In a statement, Greenland’s administerment checked Trump Jr’s visit would achieve place “as a personal individual”.
Dentag’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen shelp on Tuesday that “Greenland beextfinisheds to the Greenlanders”. She includeed the island is “not for sale”.
For his part, Trump Jr, speaking on a podcast on Monday, also denied his visit had any political motive.
“No, I am not buying Greenland,” the youthfulerer Trump shelp. “Funny enough, I’m actuassociate going on a very extfinished personal day trip to Greenland.”
‘Absolute necessity’
Trump had previously floated buying Greenland during his first term as plivent from 2017 to 2021, even postponing a 2019 visit to Dentag after Prime Minister Frederiksen rebuffed the idea.
The plivent-elect has signalled he schedules to achieve a analogously disturbive approach to foreign policy this time around. That includes efforts to enbig the US achieve, even as he has espoused isolationism.
In December, Trump shelp US supervise of Greenland was an “absolute necessity”.
The island is home to a big US military base and is pondered strategicassociate vital as geopolitical rivals enjoy China and Russia jockey for supervise of the Arctic.
That month, Trump also dangerened to achieve back supervise of the Panama Canal from Panama, citing the strategic significance of the trade route that cuts atraverse Central America. Washington relinquished supervise of the waterway in 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by the procrastinateed Plivent Jimmy Carter.
Panama Plivent Jose Raul Mulino quickly stoasty back that the canal “is Panamanian and beextfinisheds to Panamanians”, ruling out any talks with the Trump administration on the matter.
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