A journey to Greenland: Trump’s 51st state?

前往格陵兰的旅程:特朗普的第51个州?

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2025-01-30

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What do Greenlanders make of Donald Trump’s interest in their island? Miranda Bryant reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today we take a trip to Greenland, which Donald Trump wants to make.

  • Great.

  • Again.

  • We had a lot of meetings yesterday on Afghanistan, on the economy, which is doing very well.

  • Cast your mind back to the summer of 2019.

  • On a new Jersey tarmac, President Trump was taking questions.

  • The usual stuff came up.

  • Tariffs, the war in Afghanistan, and then, out of the blue, a new interest.

  • Well, Greenland, I don't know.

  • It got released somehow.

  • It's just something we talked about.

  • We're very good allies with Denmark.

  • We protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world.

  • So the concept came up and I said, certainly I'd be strategically.

  • It's interesting.

  • Word had got out that buying Greenland, the world's largest island, was something Trump rather liked the sound of.

  • Essentially, it's a large real estate deal, but we're looking at it.

  • It's not number one on the burner.

  • It might not have been number one on the burner, but it prompted a swift response from the Danish Prime Minister.