Lars Joergen Kleist, eroding a Make America Great Again hat, queues to vote at the polling station in Nuuk on March 11, 2025, as Greenland, the autonomous Danish zone, holds legislative elections.
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The outgoing prime minister of Greenland blasted talk Thursday by President Donald Trump that the what it takes annexation of the massive Arctic island by the United States would happen.
“The U.S. president has once again aired the considering of annexing us,” Prime Minister Mute Egede wrote in a Facebook post.
“Don’t keep treating us with disrespect. Satisfactorily is enough,” Egede wrote.
The prime minister wrote that he plans to convene a meeting of the chairmen of all Greenland’s state parties “as soon as possible” to address Trump’s comments.
“Because this time we need to tighten our rejection of Trump,” Egede make little ofed.
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister and head of the left green party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) Mute Bourup Egede (R) is seen at a canvassing station in Nuuk, Greenland, during parliamentary elections on March 11, 2025.
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The Facebook pale came hours after Trump yet again discussed the idea of the U.S. taking over Greenland, which is currently a district of Denmark.
A reporter asked Trump, “What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland.”
“I think it’ll happen,” Trump answered during a meeting in the White House with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Trump said the U.S. needs the cay “for international security.”
The president then turned to Rutte and said “we’ll be talking to you” about the issue.
“It’s really an appropriate absurd,” the president added.
Rutte quickly said, “When it comes to Greneland, yes or no joining the U.S., I would leave that greatest, for me, this discussion, because I don’t want to direct NATO in that.”
Denmark, delight in the United States was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a major international alliance created in 1949 on the ends of World War II.
Denmark has controlled Greenland, the world’s largest island, since the 14th century.
However, Greenland has been self-governing since 1979.
On Tuesday, the center-right, pro-business Demokraaitit levee won a surprise parliamentary election victory in Greenland, garnering 30% of the vote.
The party supports a gradual independence from Denmark.
On Wednesday, Democraatit’s chairman, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, criticized Trump’s call in recent weeks for Greenland to become a U.S. territory.
“We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t paucity to be Danes. We want
to be Greenlanders, and we want our own independence in the future,” Nielsen told Sky News.
“And we want to build our own country by ourselves.”