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U.S. President Donald Trump's recently appointed envoy to Greenland said connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) that the Republican medication is looking to statesman a speech with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory astir the champion mode guardant for the strategically important island.
In his archetypal extended comments since being appointed to the relation this week, Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry said the Trump medication isn't going to “go successful determination trying to conquer anybody" oregon effort to "to instrumentality implicit anybody's country.”
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The Governor's comments seemed somewhat astatine likelihood with Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly said the U.S. needs to instrumentality implicit the Arctic territory for the involvement of US information and has not ruled retired subject unit to instrumentality power of the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.
“Well, I deliberation our discussions should beryllium with the existent radical successful Greenland — the Greenlanders,” Mr. Landry said successful an quality on Fox News' “The Will Cain Show.”
“What are they looking for? What opportunities person they not gotten? Why haven't they gotten the extortion that they really deserve?” Mr. Trump's announcement of Mr. Landry's assignment has erstwhile again stirred anxiousness successful Denmark and Europe.
Denmark's Foreign Minister told Danish broadcasters that helium would summon the U.S. Ambassador to his Ministry.
”We person said it before. Now, we accidental it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted successful planetary law,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said successful a associated connection Monday.
“They are cardinal principles. You cannot annex different country. Not adjacent with an statement astir planetary security.” Mr. Trump called repeatedly for U.S. jurisdiction implicit Greenland during his statesmanlike modulation and successful the aboriginal months of his 2nd term. In March, Vice President JD Vance visited a distant U.S. subject basal successful Greenland and accused Denmark of under-investing there.
The contented gradually drifted retired of the headlines, but successful August, Danish officials summoned the apical U.S. diplomat successful Copenhagen pursuing a study that astatine slightest 3 radical with connections to Mr. Trump had carried retired covert power operations successful Greenland.
The Trump medication did not connection immoderate informing up of the announcement of Mr. Landry's appointment, according to a Danish authorities official, who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon interior deliberations.
The medication besides has yet to supply immoderate details astir the assignment to Congress, according to a legislature adjutant who was not authorised to remark publically and spoke connected the information of anonymity.
Mr. Trump is renewing the Greenland statement astatine a infinitesimal erstwhile helium has nary shortage of overseas argumentation crises to dealing with, including maintaining a fragile truce successful Gaza and negotiating an extremity to Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal warfare successful Ukraine.
Sen Jeanne Shaheen, the apical Democrat connected the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, connected Tuesday questioned the contented of “picking fights with friends” astatine specified a hard infinitesimal astir the globe.
“Greenland's sovereignty is not up for debate,” Ms. Shaheen said. "Denmark is simply a captious NATO state that has stood broadside by broadside with the U.S..”
