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“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in a Saturday phone call.
From Rolling Stone
Donald Trump is reportedly costing up the price of taking over Greenland and planning to offer more cash than Denmark.
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“We are in a serious time,” Egede wrote on Facebook. “A time we have never experienced in our country. The time is not for internal division but for cooperation and unity for our country.”
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Thule Air Base was renamed Pituffik Space Base in April 2023 to “recognize Greenlandic cultural heritage,” and the site continues to handle missile defense, space surveillance and a system that detects ballistic missiles before they fly near U.S. soil.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Thursday for increased Arctic defense collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed the US desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
The president said that nothing was "off the table" with regards to Washington taking control of the Arctic island.
The remote Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, which Vice President JD Vance is visiting on Friday, is the U.S.
Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance will visit Pituffik Space Base, the US military's base in Greenland dating back to World War II.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the comment while trashing the Trump administration’s continued efforts to make Greenland part of the U.S.
GreenMet Founder and CEO Drew Horn says Greenland’s naturally cool temperatures and potential for energy abundance make it an ideal “data center dreamland.” Horn also talks about the country’s nuclear history and how the United States could partner with them to build nuclear plants on military bases.