President-elect Donald Trump confirmed he’s sending eldest son Don Jr. to Greenland as a part of his efforts to make it a part of the US — regardless of repeated denials it’s on the market.
Trump confirmed the fact-finding journey whereas sharing video of a Greenlander placing on a purple Make America Nice Once more hat and asking the incoming US president to “buy us.”
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA,’” Trump posted on his Fact Social late Monday.
“My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights,” he mentioned of the mineral-rich Arctic island that’s an autonomous territory of Denmark.
“Greenland is an unbelievable place, and the folks will profit tremendously if, and when, it turns into a part of our Nation.
“We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Whereas Donald Trump Jr. and different representatives can be touring to the strategically situated island on Tuesday he is not going to be assembly with any authorities officers, sources conversant in the journey instructed The Submit.
The Greenlander asking Trump to “buy us” additionally mentioned within the clip: “We don’t want to be colonized by the Danish government anymore.”
The incoming president has voiced his want for the US to achieve “ownership” of Greenland in an effort to increase America’s territory to incorporate the Denmark-owned island in what he known as in his earlier time period a “large real estate deal.”
Nonetheless as rhetoric all over the world’s largest island has heated up, Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede has asserted that the mineral-rich land is “not for sale and will never be for sale.”
Egede mentioned in his New Yr’s speech that the island is searching for independence from the Kingdom of Denmark as a part of a motion to take away its “shackles of colonialism.
“It is about time that we ourselves take a step and shape our future, also with regard to who we will cooperate closely with and who our trading partners will be,” the PM mentioned within the weeks after Trump’s threats.
Denmark’s King Frederik has additionally appeared to reject Trump’s attainable Greenland seize by altering the nation’s coat of arms to function the polar bear image representing Greenland and the Faroe Islands extra prominently, in response to The Impartial.
Trump has mentioned that US possession and management of Greenland, which is dwelling to some 56,000 largely Inuit residents, is an “absolute necessity.”
Sources near the president instructed the Submit he’s “100% critical’’ buying not solely Greenland however the Panama Canal as US territory as a part of his America-first technique to counter China and Russia.
The acquisition of the Greenland could be the biggest land addition in American historical past — overtaking the 1803 Louisiana Buy, which practically doubled the dimensions of the USA on the time.
