Trump makes thinly-veiled threat to Greenland with Truth Social post – Metro.co.uk
Donald Trump has stoked tensions with Greenland with a bizarre Truth Social post after threatening to take over the territory earlier this year.
The president shared a mocked-up image of himself peering over a Greenlandic town, captioned: ‘Hello, Greenland!’
This weekend, a new American consulate in the territory’s capital, Nuuk, was opened, with special envoy Jeff Landry making a trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
The US Ambassador to Denmark, Kenneth Howery, said in the wake of the news: ‘The Arctic is clearly a region of global importance. We will always be neighbours and be with you into whatever future you choose as allies and partners.’
One protester told the BBC: ‘Our message is for the American people and to the rest of the world. That in a democratic world, no means no.’
The post comes after the US lodged a bid to open three new military bases on the territory earlier this month.
The proposal would see three additional military bases placed on the island, which would be designated as US sovereign territory, one source told the BBC.
The White House announced it has engaged in ‘high-level talks’ with both Denmark and Greenland about the bases.
Trump has never been shy about his desire to claim Greenland as his own.
The president has long claimed he needs additional US military support in the country to counter threats from Russia and China in the Arctic Circle.
Greenland sits in a particularly contested area over which international powers have been jostling for military control.
Controlling Greenland – or even having more military bases there – would give a nation an outpost in a vital naval corridor connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic.
As climate change melts the ice caps, the once nearly impossible-to-navigate ocean is becoming more accessible, opening new shipping routes.
Trump has been eyeing up the island since 2019, but he’s not the first president to want control over it.
The US has tried to buy Greenland twice, once in 1846 and again in 1946.
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