President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One under a 97% waning gibbous moon, on Sunday, January 4, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Source: Official White House Work, Molly Riley, Flickr
U.S. President Donald Trump refuses to answer on Monday night whether he expects to take action against Greenland.
This happens on board the presidential plane Air Force One.
Here Trump is asked by a journalist whether he expects to “take action” against Greenland.
“I don’t want to talk about Greenland. I want to talk about Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine,” Trump replies.
“We will worry about Greenland in about two months. Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days,” Trump says aboard the presidential plane Air Force One.
The EU Needs Us To Get It
It is not clear why Trump mentions these exact times.
After brushing aside the journalist’s question, the president nevertheless talks about Greenland:
“But I want to say this about Greenland. We need Greenland for the sake of the national security situation,” says Trump.
“Right now, there are Chinese and Russian ships all over Greenland. We need Greenland for the sake of the national security situation. Denmark is not going to be able to do the job,” he says.
“The EU needs us to get it (Greenland, ed.). And they know that,” adds the American president.
It was during Trump’s first presidential term in 2019 that he first started talking about American ownership of Greenland.
He has raised the subject regularly since he was elected to his second term in November.
He also did so on Sunday in a telephone interview with the media outlet The Atlantic.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” said Trump, according to the media outlet.
Calls For An End To Threats
But it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a statement on Sunday.
“The United States has no right to annex one of the three countries in the Commonwealth,” Frederiksen said.
At the same time, she called “strongly for the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people, who have very clearly said that they are not for sale”.
Trump was not asked about – and did not comment on – Sunday’s statement by the Danish prime minister on Monday night.
Source: KNR (in Danish)