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Donald Trump,has a clear goal in mind since he returned to the White House. The Republican is obsessed with annexing Greenland to the US and is setting all the instruments in motion to achieve this and add the world's largest island.
In fact, he has sent his vice president, JD Vance, to Greenland on Friday. Donald Trump has bluntly stated that his number two's trip is to "convince" the inhabitants of this autonomous Danish territory to the United States.
"We need Greenland for international security. We need it; we have to have it. It's vital for a defense posture, especially considering the way the world is. I hate to have to say it that way, but we're going to have to do it," Trump said in an interview with 'The Vince Show' podcast.
"We're going to have to convince them" to become US territory, Trump added, when asked about the goals of Vance's visit Friday to the US military base at Pituffik in Greenland.
Vance announced that next Friday he will visit the US space base in Greenland. The US vice president will his wife, Usha Vance, who this week also plans to visit Greenland to attend a popular dog sled race, something that has finally been removed from the agenda, after strong criticism from the authorities in Nuuk (Greenland's capital) and Denmark.
Denmark harshly criticizes Trump: "Lack of respect"
Meanwhile, Denmark's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen accused Donald Trump of escalating the controversy over Greenland and of making "veiled threats" with his desire to take over the Danish autonomous territory.
"I have to distance myself clearly from what I consider to be an escalation on the American side," Poulsen told Danish television TV2.
"I think they are veiled threats against the Commonwealth of the Kingdom (which includes Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and I need to condemn them," said the Danish minister.
Poulsen called Trump's latest remarks "violent" and unbecoming of the US president towards a "close ally like NATO member Denmark."
"We will not allow the Americans to think that they can decide what the Commonwealth should look like in the future. It will be a decision for the Commonwealth itself and therefore a decision in which Greenland will also be involved," he said.
Trump's words are a "disrespect" to Greenlanders and an "interference in their internal affairs," Poulsen said.