Greenland leaders push back on Trump's calls for US control of the island: 'We don’t want to be Americans'

Greenland's enactment is pushing backmost connected President Donald Trump arsenic helium and his medication telephone for the U.S. to instrumentality power of the island. Several Trump medication officials person backed the president's calls for a takeover of Greenland, with galore citing nationalist information reasons.

"We don’t privation to beryllium Americans, we don’t privation to beryllium Danes, we privation to beryllium Greenlanders," Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and 4 enactment leaders said successful a connection Friday night, according to The Associated Press. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory and a longtime U.S. ally, has repeatedly rejected Trump's statements astir U.S. acquiring the island.

Greenland's enactment leaders reiterated that the island's "future indispensable beryllium decided by the Greenlandic people."

"As Greenlandic enactment leaders, we would similar to stress erstwhile again our privation that the United States’ contempt for our state ends," the connection said.

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Greenland has rejected the Trump administration's propulsion to instrumentality implicit the Danish territory. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump was asked astir the propulsion to get Greenland connected Friday during a roundtable with lipid executives. The president, who has maintained that Greenland is captious to U.S. security, said it was important for the state to marque the determination truthful it could bushed its adversaries to the punch.

"We are going to bash thing connected Greenland, whether they similar it oregon not," Trump said Friday. "Because if we don't bash it, Russia oregon China volition instrumentality implicit Greenland, and we're not going to person Russia oregon China arsenic a neighbor."

Trump hosted astir 2 twelve lipid executives astatine the White House connected Friday to sermon investments successful Venezuela aft the historical seizure of President Nicolás Maduro connected Jan. 3.

"We don't privation to person Russia there," Trump said of Venezuela connected Friday erstwhile asked if the federation appears to beryllium an state to the U.S. "We don't privation to person China there. And, by the way, we don't privation Russia oregon China going to Greenland, which, if we don't instrumentality Greenland, you tin person Russia oregon China arsenic your next-door neighbor. That's not going to happen." 

Trump said the U.S. is successful power of Venezuela aft the seizure and extradition of Maduro. 

Nielsen has antecedently rejected comparisons betwixt Greenland and Venezuela, saying that his land was looking to amended its relations with the U.S., according to Reuters.

A "Make America Go Away" shot cap, distributed for escaped by Danish creator Jens Martin Skibsted, is arranged successful Sisimiut, Greenland, connected March 30, 2025. (Juliette Pavy/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said connected Monday that Trump's threats to annex Greenland could mean the extremity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

"I besides privation to marque it wide that if the U.S. chooses to onslaught different NATO state militarily, past everything stops. Including our NATO and frankincense the information that has been provided since the extremity of the Second World War," Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2.

That aforesaid day, Nielsen said successful a connection posted connected Facebook that Greenland was "not an entity of superpower rhetoric."

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stands adjacent to Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a sojourn to the Danish Parliament successful Copenhagen connected April 28, 2025. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

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White House lawman main of unit for argumentation Stephen Miller doubled down connected Trump’s remarks, telling CNN successful an interrogation connected Monday that Greenland "should beryllium portion of the United States."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Miller astir whether the Trump medication could regularisation retired subject enactment against the Arctic island.

"The United States is the powerfulness of NATO. For the United States to unafraid the Arctic region, to support and support NATO and NATO interests, evidently Greenland should beryllium portion of the United States," helium said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.