President-elect Trump has stepped up his appeals to the US owned by Greenland in a funny social media post on Monday.
The move comes as the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., prepares to travel to Greenland on Tuesday. The trip will be in a personal capacity and he is not expected to meet government officials.
In a Truth Social post, President-elect Trump said he “heard that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’.” The Republican added a video allegedly showing a Greenlander asking the US to buy his land.
“If you could tell Trump anything, what would it be?” In the video you hear a woman ask the man.
“Buy us. Buy Greenland,” replied the man, who was wearing a MAGA hat.
One video appears to show a Greenlander asking Trump to buy his land. (iStock/Getty Images)
The Greenlander then added that he “loved Americans” and wanted to be free from the Danish government.
“We don’t want to be colonized by the Danish government anymore,” he explained. “We are cheated every year (of) our minerals from Greenland. We are the richest country in the world. And we are not allowed to use it. Denmark uses us too much.”
In his message, Trump confirmed that he plans to visit Greenland in the near future and that his son, Donald Trump Jr., will soon be in the country. The president-elect said he plans to visit some of the island’s “most magnificent areas and sights.”
“Greenland is an incredible place, and its people will benefit immensely if and when it becomes part of our nation,” Trump wrote on Monday. “We will protect and cherish it from a very cruel outside world. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump’s latest post comes two weeks after he first made headlines by voicing his support for US ownership of Greenland.
“For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America believes that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” the president-elect’s Truth Social message said.
President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive at his Mar-A-Lago Club on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
In response, the Prime Minister of Greenland said Mute Egede declared his interest in his country becoming independent from Denmark.
“The upcoming new election period must, together with the citizens, create these new steps, based on the foundations that have already been laid,” Egede said. “It is time for us to take a step ourselves and shape our future, including with regard to who we will work closely with and who our trading partners will be.”
Trump has been considering buying Greenland for years. In 2019, he floated the idea of buying Greenland, calling it “a big real estate deal.”
“Many things can be done. It hurts Denmark very badly because it loses almost $700 million a year,” Trump said at the time. “So they bear it at great loss, and strategically for the United States it would be nice. And we are a great ally of Denmark and we help Denmark, and we protect Denmark.”
During a “Fox News Sunday” interview about Trump’s comments, then-White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow confirmed that the president’s sentiment was genuine.
“Greenland is a strategic place there, and they have a lot of valuable minerals,” Kudlow explained at the time.
Houses can be seen on the coast in Nuuk, Greenland. (Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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‘I don’t want to predict an outcome. I’m just saying that the president, who knows a thing or two about buying real estate, wants to take a look at it.”
Fox News’ Nick Givas and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
