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The Wall Street Publication > Blog > World > President-elect Trump has thought of shopping for Greenland: Here is each proposal in American historical past
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President-elect Trump has thought of shopping for Greenland: Here is each proposal in American historical past

Editorial Board Published November 20, 2024
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The incoming Trump administration has reinvoked chatter about the opportunity of the US buying Greenland, an thought floated in the course of the president-elect’s first time period in workplace.

In his first time period, Trump tweeted a picture of coastal Greenland with an edited, shiny Trump tower constructing superimposed on the panorama. It was captioned, “I promise not to do this to Greenland!”

In August 2019, President Trump confirmed to reporters that he was fascinated with buying Greenland, an concept that raised each curiosity and debate.

“Denmark essentially owns it,” Trump stated. “We’re very good allies with Denmark, we protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world. So the concept came up and I said, ‘Certainly I’d be.’ Strategically it’s interesting and we’d be interested but we’ll talk to them a little bit. It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can tell you that.”

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC.  (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Pictures)

The Wall Avenue Journal first reported Trump’s curiosity, citing sources who stated he had talked about the thought with “varying degrees of seriousness.”

The concept was shelved after Joe Biden took workplace in 2021, however has resurfaced on-line within the wake of Trump’s victory earlier this month.

Republican Congressman Mike Collins of Georgia posted what seems to be an electoral map that includes Greenland on November 7, with the territory voting GOP. It was captioned, “Project 2029.”

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Since then, a member of parliament in Denmark has pushed again on the thought of the US buying Greenland as an American territory. In response to a put up from Rasmus Jarlov, the Danish parliament doesn’t intend to supply the territory to anybody, particularly the US. 

“Greenlandic independence requires approval by the Danish parliament[sic] and a change of our constitution,” wrote Jarlov. “I can guarantee you that there is no way we would approve indepence[sic] so that you could buy Greenland. Nice fantasy but forget it.” 

That is removed from the primary time that the US has thought of buying the strategically helpful Arctic landmass.

After World Conflict II, President Harry Truman provided Denmark $100 million for it in 1946, however Denmark refused.

The concept really got here up earlier in 1945, when Senator Owen Brewster, R-Maine, known as Greenland a “military necessity” supported by American army leaders. 

Homes on the shoreline in Nuuk, Greenland. (Marli Miller/UCG/Common Pictures Group through Getty Pictures)

In 1946, a State Division official famous that the Joint Chiefs of Employees believed the U.S. ought to intention to buy the territory. That December, Secretary of State James Byrnes even made a suggestion on to Denmark’s Overseas Minister Gustav Rasmussen, suggesting a sale could be the best resolution.

American curiosity in Greenland goes again even additional. In 1867, the State Division explored shopping for each Greenland and Iceland, recognizing their strategic significance.

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If Denmark hypothetically agrees to promote Greenland to the US, it might be the most important growth of American territory in historical past, topping 1803’s Louisiana Buy.

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