President Trump’s long-standing objective of claiming Greenland for America has gone from rhetoric to the official policy of the United States while the White House advances on an official plan to acquire the Arctic Island of Denmark.
The plan mobilizes several departments of the cabinet behind the years of discussion of Mr. Trump on the desire of Greenland, whose economic and strategic value has developed as the warming temperatures make the Arctic ice melt.
The size of Greenland – 836,330 miles square – also offers Mr. Trump, a former Manhattan developer, the possibility of winning what he can see as one of the greatest real estate agreements in history.
Danish officials insist with anger so that the poorly populated island is not for sale and cannot be annexed. But Trump clearly indicated his determination to control him.
“We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we work with all the people involved to try to obtain it,” he said in an address in Congress last month.
“In one way or another, we will get it,” added Trump.
