President-elect Donald Trump returns to the issue of acquiring Greenland. “The United States of America believes that possession and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said in a post on his social media site while announcing his nomination for U.S. ambassador to Denmark.
“For purposes of national security and freedom everywhere, the United States of America believes that possession and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote Donald Trump on the Truth Social website, in an entry announcing the nomination for billionaire Ken Howery – former partner of Elon Musk.
Trump thus returned to an issue raised during his first term in the White Housewhen he tried to buy Greenland, which was an autonomous dependent territory Denmark.
Both the local Greenlandic and Danish authorities strongly rejected the idea at the time, considering it a joke. According to The Wall Street Journal reports at the time, Trump returned to the topic several times “with varying levels of seriousness.”
Nuuk, the capital of GreenlandShutterstock
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Truman also made an offer
There is an American Thule air base in Greenland – renamed a Space Force base in 2023. According to AP, Trump was not the first president USA proposing to buy the largest island in the world. A similar offer was made to Denmark, which owns the largest island in the world, in 1945 by President Harry Truman.
Greenland has an area of ​​almost 2.2 million square kilometers (seven times more than Poland).
Trump's candidate for US ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, is a businessman and financier who, together with, among others, He founded PayPal with Elon Musk and billionaire Peter Thiel. During Trump's first presidency, he served as U.S. ambassador to Sweden. He has reportedly been Musk's friend “for decades.”
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