Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, and US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP US President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday the US needs to take control of Greenland, with Nato’s support, just hours before crunch talks about the Arctic island with top Danish, Greenlandic and US officials. Just hours before the meeting with US Vice President JD Vance was due to start, Trump said that US control of Greenland – an autonomous territory belonging to Nato ally Denmark – was “vital” for his planned Golden Dome air and missile defence system.
He said Nato “should be leading the way” in building the multi-layer missile defence system. “IF WE DON’T, RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!” Trump wrote. Just prior, Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen had sought to ease US concerns about security in Greenland, saying Denmark was boosting its military presence there and was in talks with allies on “an increased Nato presence in the Arctic”.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to take over the vast, strategic and sparsely populated Arctic island and he has sounded emboldened since ordering a deadly January 3 attack in Venezuela that removed its president. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart were to hold talks later Wednesday in Washington with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice-President JD Vance. Trump, when asked Tuesday about Greenland’s leader saying that the island prefers to remain part of Denmark, said: “Well that’s their problem.”
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