WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – President Donald Trump reiterated calls to annex Greenland on Friday at the White House as a bipartisan group of lawmakers headed to Denmark to reassure European leaders that America won’t take the territory by force.
Trump said again on Friday that Greenland should join the U.S. whether they like it or not.
“We need Greenland for national security very badly. If we don’t have it, we have a big hole in national security,” Trump said.
While the president says his administration is talking to NATO, several of the alliance’s members are sending troops to Greenland in response to threats.
That prompted the president to up the ante on countries opposing his Greenland plans, using a familiar threat earlier in the day.
“I may do that for Greenland, too. I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So, I may do that,” Trump said.
The potential for military action now has members of his own party threatening consequences.
“One way or the other way, whether it’s even Republican control. Or if it’s, Democrat control, after November, I think it would lead to impeachment. I think it’s invading. Ally to me is a high crime and misdemeanor. And we have a treaty. We have, the NATO agreement, and it’s, so would be it basically severing this whole agreement and invading an ally, a democracy. It’s immoral. It’s wrong,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.).
Other Republicans, like Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), are saying that the U.S. should be focusing on Greenland as an ally, not some sort of asset.
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