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Greenland’s PM breaks silence after Donald Trump says USA will take country ‘one way or another’

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Updated 14:12 6 Mar 2025 GMTPublished 18:30 5 Mar 2025 GMT

Greenland’s PM breaks silence after Donald Trump says USA will take country ‘one way or another’

Unsurprisingly, they don't want their country to be taken over

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Topics: US News, Donald Trump, World News

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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Greenland's prime minister has responded after US President Donald Trump declared that America would take it over 'one way or the other'.

Trump has been talking about taking over Greenland for a while, having claimed that the US will 'need it for national security', saying he was 'talking about protecting the free world' when he spoke of occupying the world's largest island.

Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, which has insisted that they will not be selling it to the Americans, and while there is an independence movement in the territory they are not rushing to become the next American state.

In his address to Congress yesterday (4 March), Trump once again spoke of his desire to take over Greenland, saying: "We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.

"We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before."

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Trump said his government was 'working with everybody involved to try to get' Greenland, and despite the lack of desire from Greenland or Denmark for his ideas he made it clear he thinks he will succeed eventually.

Donald Trump wants Greenland, Greenland doesn't want Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Donald Trump wants Greenland, Greenland doesn't want Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"We need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it. One way or the other, we’re going to get it," he told Congress.

Responding to Trump's ominous declaration that the US was 'going to get' Greenland 'one way or the other', Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede released a statement declaring that 'Kalaallit Nunaat is ours' (Kalaallit Nunaat is the Greenlanders' name for their country).

He said: "We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that.

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Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede has made it clear Greenland doesn't want to be part of the US (Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede has made it clear Greenland doesn't want to be part of the US (Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland."

Trump's notion of the US taking over Greenland would seem to run very much contrary to the desire of the 56,000 people who actually live there, which would seem to be a massive obstacle to his plans to take it over.

Denmark's foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he didn't think that Greenland wanted to become independent just to end up being 'an integrated part of America'.

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