Trump Says He Believes US Will 'Get Greenland' BBC: Again Demands to Buy Greenland, 'Horrendous' Call w Danish PM

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(2) BBC, Jan. 25, 2025.

President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland, after showing renewed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory in recent weeks.

"I think we're going to have it," he told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday, adding that the island's 57,000 residents "want to be with us".

His comments come after reports that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen insisted Greenland was not for sale in a fiery phone call with the president last week.

Trump floated the prospect of buying the vast Arctic territory during his first term in 2019, and has said US control of Greenland is an "absolute necessity" for international security...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkezj07rzro
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- The Guardian, 'Trump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PM,' Jan. 25, 2025.

Source says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen.
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Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.

Speaking to the Financial Times, officials said that Trump, then still president-elect, spoke with Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week, during which he was described to be aggressive and confrontational about Frederiksen’s refusal to sell Greenland to the US...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenland-denmark

[Irish_Dem]

1. Same thing Putin said about Ukraine, and Xi says about Taiwan.

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2. Note the absence of US news sources on this

That call is 3-4 days old and the NYT hasn’t written a single story about it. WTAF?

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3. Our major news sources, nowhere. He's really badgering and aggressive. And disturbed.

.. Another person who was briefed on the call told the outlet: “The intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode.” Someone else said: “The Danes are utterly freaked out by this.”

According to one former Danish official, the call was a “very tough conversation” in which Trump “threatened specific measures against Denmark such as targeted tariffs”.

Trump has previously said that the US needs to control Greenland and has refused to rule out using US military force to take over the territory. During a press conference a few weeks ago, Trump said that the US needed Greenland “for economic security”. The 836,300-sq-mile (2,166,007-sq-km) Arctic island is rich in oil and gas, as well as various raw materials for green technology.

Speaking to TV 2 earlier this month, Frederiksen said that the autonomous territory is “not for sale”, adding: “Seen through the eyes of the Danish government, Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders