{"id":360527,"date":"2026-07-03T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360527"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:36:23","slug":"trump-has-not-forgotten-about-threats-to-seize-greenland-u-s-envoy-says-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/trump-has-not-forgotten-about-threats-to-seize-greenland-u-s-envoy-says-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018has not forgotten\u2019 about threats to seize Greenland, U.S. envoy says – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy to Greenland says Trump \u201chas not forgotten\u201d about his desire to take over the Danish territory, saying it was raised as recently as last weekend.<\/p>\n

In a podcast released Wednesday, Jeff Landry, who can be the sitting governor of Louisiana, said the U.S. could \u201cbring them right into the fold\u201d with \u201csome little things,\u201d like sending more military personnel and opening up more trade, which he claimed Greenlanders support.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was talking to me Saturday night, \u2018We want to get Greenland,’\u201d Landry said of Trump while speaking on Breitbart\u2019s Alex Marlow Show. \u201cHe has not forgotten about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI laid out some things with the president,\u201d Landry said later. \u201cLet me let you know, from a strategic natural resources standpoint, that place is unbelievably necessary to us. I mean, there\u2019s an incredible oil and gas reserve there. There are great rare earth minerals there. There\u2019s great fishing there. I mean, it\u2019s an incredible place, so we\u2019re gonna get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s vocal push to amass Greenland early this 12 months \u2014 and refusal to rule out using military force to achieve this \u2014 rattled Greenland and Denmark, a NATO ally that controls the self-governing island, and threatened to further rupture U.S. relations with the remainder of the alliance.<\/p>\n

Trump backed down on his threats in late January after speaking with NATO leaders and agreeing to talks between the U.S., Greenland and Denmark.<\/p>\n

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Landry visited Greenland in May and claimed on Wednesday\u2019s podcast that, based on that trip, \u201cthe people of Greenland wish to be with the US\u201d and are looking for \u201ca more in-depth relationship,\u201d including more military presence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey wish to free themselves from Danish control, and so now it\u2019s a matter of just making that occur. And I believe it\u2019s easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He identified that the U.S. once had a much larger military presence in Greenland but reduced it in recent a long time. Just one everlasting U.S. military outpost, the Pituffik Space Base, stays in Greenland today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like \u2026 you had a girlfriend in highschool, OK?\u201d Landry said. \u201cAnd y\u2019all dated. Perhaps you dated into college. It was great. It was an incredible relationship. After which it just fell apart. You didn\u2019t leave on bad terms, you only left. And then you definitely see her like 10 or 15 years later and also you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my God, let\u2019s just get married.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the Greenlanders are only a bit gun-shy. \u2026 They wanna know that if we\u2019re coming back, there\u2019s gonna be some permanence to it and it\u2019s gonna be good for them. And so I believe we\u2019re gonna get it. I actually do.\u201d<\/p>\n

A February poll conducted for The Copenhagen Post found that 62 per cent percent of Greenlanders don\u2019t support independence from Denmark, while only five per cent favour closer ties with the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n

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