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President Donald Trump remains committed to the NATO confederation adjacent arsenic helium and his nationalist information squad are holding progressive discussions astir a U.S. acquisition of Greenland, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026).
Mr. Trump, who has agelong wanted to get Greenland for its mineral resources, has raised tensions with NATO allies by not ruling retired the anticipation of taking the territory by force.
Greenland, done its transportation to Denmark, is considered a portion of NATO.
“All options are ever connected the array for President Trump,” Ms. Leavitt told reporters at a White House briefing. “The president’s archetypal enactment ever has been diplomacy.”
Ms. Leavitt said an acquisition of Greenland would springiness the United States much power implicit the Arctic portion and an quality to antagonistic aggression successful a strategical area.
“The president has been precise unfastened and wide with each of you and with the satellite that helium views it successful the champion interest of the United States to deter Russian and Chinese aggression successful the Arctic region, and truthful that’s wherefore his squad is presently talking astir what a imaginable acquisition would look like,” she said.
Mr. Trump said earlier connected Wednesday (January 7) the U.S. would enactment NATO and that Russia and China lone feared the confederation arsenic agelong arsenic the United States was a member.
“We volition ever beryllium determination for NATO, even if they won’t beryllium determination for us,” helium said successful a station connected Truth Social.
Ms. Leavitt said she had not heard Trump question Denmark’s assertion to Greenland.
