Greenland prime minister balks at Trump’s renewed play for territory: ‘We are not for sale’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During his first term in the White House, Trump expressed a desire to make a “large real-estate deal” because “strategically” it would be “very nice.” Naming Paypal co-founder and former envoy to Sweden Ken Howery as his ambassador to Copenhagen, Trump declared in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the United States would once again look at snapping up Greenland from Denmark. In 2019, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen swiftly rejected Trump’s initial proposal to buy Greenland, calling it “absurd.” The then president reacted by calling her “nasty” and canceling a state visit to the Danish capital. “To the Officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly!” Responding to Trump’s threats, which the incoming president doubled down on during a speech on Sunday at a right-wing gathering, Panama’s conservative president José Raúl Mulino posted a video saying that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong” to his country. “We’ll see about that!” Trump replied on Truth Social, adding another post with an AI image of a United States flag over the canal zone and a caption reading “Welcome to the United States Canal!” Additionally, the president-elect has spent the past few weeks trolling Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau with the idea of making Canada an American state.