{"id":42337,"date":"2026-01-05T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/denmark-urges-trump-to-stop-threatening-to-annex-greenland\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:11:23","slug":"denmark-urges-trump-to-stop-threatening-to-annex-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/denmark-urges-trump-to-stop-threatening-to-annex-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark urges Trump to stop threatening to annex Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695b466964858d02d217b7c5?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Mette Frederiksen and Donald Trump\"\/><figcaption>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Trump has no right to annex Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Dursun Aydemir\/Anadolu via Getty Images, Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The leaders of Denmark and Greenland urged the US to stop its threats of buying Greenland.<\/li>\n<li>The Danish prime minister said the US &quot;has no right to annex&quot; Greenland.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of controlling Greenland, for security reasons and for its resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Denmark and Greenland are once again calling on the US to stop eyeing Greenland as land for sale.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on a Danish government website on Sunday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, &quot;I have to say this very directly to the United States.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland,&quot; she said. &quot;The United States has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Commonwealth.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen, who has been the country&#039;s prime minister since 2019, said that Greenland, which falls under the Kingdom of Denmark, is part of NATO, &quot;and is therefore covered by the alliance&#039;s security guarantee.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She added that Denmark has a defense agreement with the US, which gives the US access to Greenland. The US has one military base, the Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have said very clearly that they are not for sale,&quot; Frederiksen said in her statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish prime minister&#039;s statement comes after President Donald Trump&#039;s former aide, Katie Miller, posted an image on X of a map of Greenland superimposed with the US flag.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday post by Miller, who is married to White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, was accompanied by the caption, &quot;SOON.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And over recent years, Trump has repeatedly talked about the possibility of buying Greenland for US security and to tap into its trove of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Jesper M\u00f8ller S\u00f8rensen, the Danish ambassador to the US, responded to Miller&#039;s post, writing, &quot;Just a friendly reminder about the US and the Kingdom of Denmark: We are close allies and should continue to work together as such.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8rensen added that he expects &quot;full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Greenland&#039;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Sunday Facebook post, &quot;Enough is enough.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said he would not accept &quot;fantasies of annexation,&quot; and said that he found the US&#039;s messaging &quot;completely and utterly unacceptable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland during his first term in August 2019, per a report that month by The Wall Street Journal. Greenland&#039;s foreign affairs ministry wrote in an X post in the same month, &quot;We&#039;re open for business, not for sale.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In a congressional address in March,shortly after commencing his second term, Trump said the US would take control of Greenland, &quot;One way or the other.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance also visited Greenland in March.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Trump and Frederiksen did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Trump has no right to annex Greenland. Dursun Aydemir\/Anadolu via Getty Images, Alex Wong\/Getty Images The leaders of Denmark and Greenland urged the US to stop its threats of buying Greenland. The Danish prime minister said the US &quot;has no right to annex&quot; Greenland. 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