Denmark, Greenland and Trump
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The top Washington-based diplomats for Greenland and Denmark met with White House officials at the National Security Council on Thursday as Greenland continues to publicly and privately insist it is not for sale.
Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.
Denmark confirmed to a newspaper that a 74-year-old national defense order is still in force today. That's not the same as issuing a new warning.
Greenland should hold direct talks with the U.S. government without Denmark, a Greenlandic opposition leader told Reuters, as the Arctic island weighs how to respond to President Donald Trump's renewed push to bring it under U.
Denmark and Greenland requested a meeting with Marco Rubio, which one Danish lawmaker hopes will halt talk "about wanting to acquire Greenland."
The rumor came from Denmark's former Minister of Greenland Tom Høyem. A British journalist contradicted the claim.
Many internet users are hoping that Barron Trump can help out his father, President Donald Trump, with one tiny favor. As tensions escalate between Denmark and the Trump administration over the future of Greenland — a semiautonomous Danish territory that the president,
The rhetoric follows a dramatic U.S. raid in Venezuela and revives Trump’s long-standing focus on Greenland, transforming diplomatic discussions into fears of coercion. But U.S. military posture there remains unchanged.
A White House official confirmed the meeting with the Danish ambassador to the U.S., Jesper Møller Sørensen, and Greenland’s representative to the U.S., Jacob Isbosethsen, but both sources declined to say who from the Trump administration participated in the discussions.
Veteran diplomat tells CBS News Denmark "ready to cooperate" on Greenland, and he expects U.S. to abandon "anachronistic approach of colonialism" post-Trump.
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