Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Múte Bourup Egede made the statement Wednesday, just hours after Trump declared in his State of the
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede wrote following Trump's speech, "We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit (Greenlanders)."
Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede hit back at Donald Trump’s outlandish threat to acquire the Danish territory “one way or the other.” In his address to Congress Tuesday night, Trump gave conflicting messages to the citizens of Greenland.
Stating that the island’s citizens are neither American nor Danish because they are Greenlandic, PM Egede wrote in a post on Facebook on Wednesday that the US needs to understand this and added the future of Greenland will be decided by its people.
Greenland's leader has told Donald Trump his land can't be take or bought after the president told Congress the US would get the territory ‘one way or another’.
Officials in Greenland and Denmark insist the world's largest island isn't for sale. Is President Donald Trump hearing them? Does it matter?
President Donald Trump doubled-down on his interest in assuming Greenland, and he isn't the first elected official to suggest doing so.