Trump weighs utilizing U.S. navy to accumulate Greenland: White Home

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and his crew are contemplating "a variety of choices" with a purpose to acquire Greenland — together with "using the U.S. Army," White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed CNBC on Tuesday.

The assertion additional escalates the Trump administration's already aggressive rhetoric about Greenland, which the president has lengthy sought to make part of the US.

Trump mentioned Sunday that the U.S. wants Greenland for nationwide safety functions, pointing to Russian and Chinese language actions within the area close to the Arctic island.

Greenland is a territory of Denmark, which, just like the U.S., is a member of worldwide navy alliance the North Atlantic Treaty Group.

The leaders of Denmark and different European NATO states on Tuesday morning issued a joint assertion pushing again on Trump's more and more vocal need to acquire Greenland.

Leavitt's new touch upon Greenland got here after that joint assertion was issued.

A drone view exhibits a normal view of Nuuk, Greenland, March 14, 2025.

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"President Trump has made it well-known that buying Greenland is a nationwide safety precedence of the US, and it is vital to discourage our adversaries within the Arctic area," Leavitt mentioned.

"The President and his crew are discussing a variety of choices to pursue this vital overseas coverage purpose, and naturally, using the U.S. Army is all the time an possibility on the Commander in Chief's disposal," she mentioned.

Trump has spoken steadily about absorbing each Greenland and Canada into the U.S., in addition to the Panama Canal. The controversial feedback have drawn worldwide rebukes, although they have been dismissed by some as unserious and unlikely to materialize in U.S. overseas coverage.

The president's renewed dialogue of Greenland has prompted extra critical issues in latest days, after the U.S. navy entered Venezuela and efficiently captured that nation's chief, Nicolas Maduro , and his spouse, Cilia Flores.

Trump mentioned after that operation that "we're going to run the nation till such time as we will do a protected, correct and even handed transition."

Trump additionally mentioned that U.S. oil companies will enter Venezuela and "repair" the nation's energy infrastructure, and that these companies "can be reimbursed" for his or her efforts.

Trump informed The Atlantic on Sunday morning that he'll go away it as much as others to determine what the intervention in Venezuela means for Greenland.

Learn extra CNBC protection on Greenland White Home senior advisor Stephen Miller mentioned Monday in a CNN interview that the U.S. "ought to have Greenland as a part of the US."

Miller additionally asserted that questions on whether or not the U.S. would take management of the island by pressure are moot. "No one's going to struggle the US militarily over the way forward for Greenland," he mentioned.

On Tuesday, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., introduced he would introduce a decision in Congress to b lock Trump from invading Greenland.

"WAKE UP. Trump is telling us precisely what he desires to do," Gallego mentioned in an X post . "We should cease him earlier than he invades one other nation on a whim."