Published: 6:39pm, 5 Mar 2025Updated: 7:00pm, 5 Mar 2025
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede said on Wednesday his people did not want to join the United States, after President Donald Trump vowed to take over the Danish autonomous territory “one way or the other”.
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“We don’t want to be Americans, or Danes either. We are Greenlanders. The Americans and their leader must understand that,” Egede wrote in a Facebook post six days ahead of Greenland’s legislative elections. “We are not for sale and can’t just be taken. Our future is decided by us in Greenland.”
Trump urged Greenland to choose to join the United States but vowed to take the Danish-ruled island “one way or the other” – a bid Denmark swiftly rejected on Wednesday.
“That won’t happen,” Danish Defence Minister Trouls Lund Poulsen told public broadcaster DR.
“The direction that Greenland wants to take will be decided by Greenlanders,” Lund Poulsen said.
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In a partisan speech to Congress on Tuesday, Trump offered only passing lines on world affairs, focusing on his domestic goals like rounding up undocumented immigrants and slashing government spending.