President Donald Trump told PBS News White House correspondent Liz Landers on Wednesday that he won’t say what he is “willing to do” to take control of Greenland, including leaving the NATO alliance.
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“I’m not going to give up options, but it’s very important. Greenland is very important for the national security, including of Denmark,” Trump said during an event in the Oval Office. “The problem is there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there’s everything we can do.”
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The president’s comments came after the foreign ministers of Denmark, a NATO country, and Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory, met earlier in the day with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington.
After the meeting, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told reporters that the U.S. and Denmark “still have a fundamental disagreement,” but they will form a working group “to explore if we can find a common way forward.”
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Trump, meanwhile, said that he “can’t rely on Denmark being able to fend” off global threats.
“I have a very good relationship with Denmark, and we’ll see how it all works out,” he said. “I think something will work out.”
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