Trump: Anything Less Than U.S. Control of Greenland Is ‘Unacceptable’

President Donald Trump doubled down on his insistence that the U.S. annexes Greenland, arguing that any other alternative is simply “unacceptable.”

Once again repeating his stance that the annexation of the territory is needed for “national security” purposes, Trump on Wednesday morning insisted that NATO “should be leading the way for us to get it” claiming that “NATO becomes far more formidable and effective” with Greenland under the jurisdiction of the U.S.

Trump’s comments come hours before the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers are set to meet with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at the White House.

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Despite the mounting pressure from the U.S., Greenland—a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark—has maintained its firm disinterest in coming under America’s control.

In a damning public rebuke on Tuesday, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said: “We are now facing a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark.”

Standing alongside Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen, Nielsen emphasized: “We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the E.U.”