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The world’s largest island wanted nothing to do with “The Art of the Deal” as the prime minister issued a response to a proposed purchase during the next White House administration.
“We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”
While weeks remained before President-elect Donald Trump officially began his second term, little time had been wasted getting under the skin of world leaders. Decades since the last acquisition of new territory for the United States, the GOP leader’s teased expansion found Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede issuing a stern response.
“Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland,” the prime minister said Monday, according to the BBC. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale.”
“We must not lose our long struggle for freedom. However, we must continue to be open to cooperation and trade with the whole world, especially with our neighbors,” he went on to add.
Egede’s statement was prompted by Trump’s nomination of former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Ken Howery as his pick to be U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark.
In a Truth Social post that touted Howery as “a World renowned entrepreneur, investor, and public servant, who served our Nation brilliantly during my First Term…where he led efforts to increase Defense, Security, and Economic Cooperation between our Countries,” Trump went on to assert, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
“As a Co-Founder of PayPal and venture capital fund, Founders Fund, Ken turned American Innovation and Tech leadership into Global success stories, and that experience will be invaluable in representing us abroad,” the president-elect said, as well as stating, “Ken will do a wonderful job in representing the interest of the United States.”
Previously, Trump had canceled a trip to Denmark in 2019 after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had lashed out at the proposed idea of acquiring the autonomous country from the kingdom.
“This is an idea that’s been discussed for many years. Harry Truman had the idea of [buying] Greenland. I had the idea. Other people have had the idea. It goes back into the early 1900s, but Harry Truman very strongly thought it was a good idea,” the then-president had said at the time.
While Peter Baker of the New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker suggested in their book that Trump had proposed a trade of Puerto Rico for Greenland with Denmark in 2019, the North American island wasn’t the only territory that had piqued his interest.
The president-elect has also bristled at Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino in recent days suggesting if the Panama Canal wasn’t being managed properly and in the interest of the United States, “then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question. To the Officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly.”
“The sovereignty and independence of our country are not negotiable,” responded Mulino in part while Canadians dealt with Trump teasing their nation could become the 51st state.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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