Overview
- President Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland, and Landry accepted the volunteer post vowing to make the island part of the United States.
- Denmark summoned the U.S. ambassador in Copenhagen, with Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen calling the appointment and annexation rhetoric totally unacceptable.
- Greenland’s Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen declared that sovereignty cannot be transferred and that their shared territorial integrity must be respected under international law.
- EU leaders, including Ursula von der Leyen, Antonio Costa and Emmanuel Macron, expressed full solidarity with Denmark and affirmed that Greenland’s status is not for Washington to change.
- Trump argued the move is a security necessity given Russian and Chinese presence, but no legal steps toward a transfer have occurred and polling shows roughly 85% of Greenlanders oppose joining the U.S.