What does Donald Trump want with Greenland?
The IndependentDonald Trump Junior, son of the US president-elect, is forsaking the Florida sunshine to make a “private” visit to Greenland. open image in gallery Denmark’s royal family has made Greenland, represented by a polar bear, more prominent on a new coat of arms Just as it makes sense to tear down a Manhattan store to build a vast vulgar tower in the sky, so too does Greenland’s unspoilt Arctic wilderness suggest its own possibilities in the interests of making America great again. open image in gallery Donald Trump Jr’s plane lands in Nuuk Alaska represented 1,518,000 square kilometres of new territory, against 2,141,000 square kilometres of Louisiana. So the Danish West Indies went for $25m, or $700m in 2024 dollars, and have been known ever since as the United States Virgin Islands – an American “territory”.