Trump has repeatedly voiced his desire to buy the self-ruling Danish territory, calling it a strategic imperative, and has not ruled out using other methods, including military action, if Greenland and Denmark refuse to make a deal.
“It’s easier,” Trump said Sunday, referring to buying the island. “But one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”
Nielsen made the remarks during a joint press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen and added that Greenlanders “choose Denmark,” vowing to stick together with the Danes.
“We enter the room together,” he said. “We go out together, and we talk to the Americans together.”
Frederiksen said “It has not been easy to stand up to completely unacceptable pressure from our closest allies for a lifetime. But there is much to suggest that the hardest part is still ahead of us.”