When asked about pushback on his desire to take control of Greenland, President Donald Trump said, “I don’t think they’re going to push back too much. We have to have it.”
“They can’t protect it. Denmark, they’re wonderful people, and I know the leaders are very good people, but they don’t even go there,” Trump said, speaking to reporters in Miami on Monday night.
The comments echo remarks he made this month, saying “the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land.”
More context: In 1721, a Lutheran missionary arrived in Greenland by boat, marking the start of Denmark’s colonization of the island, according to a Greenland government website.
