The Brief<\/p>\n
A Trump-appointed official suggested to The New Yorker that acquiring Greenland could give the U.S. greater access to seafood.<\/p>\n
The official even suggested that Greenland\u2019s seafood resources could help bring back Red Lobster\u2019s all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion.<\/p>\n
Greenland\u2019s prime minister reiterated that the island is not for sale and its future is up to its people.<\/p>\n
A Trump-appointed official suggested that if the United States were to take over Greenland, it could bring back the all-you-can-eat shrimp offer at Red Lobster.<\/a><\/p>\n Tom Dans, who is currently the chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and served at the Treasury Department during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term,\u00a0told The New Yorker<\/a> back in December that taking Greenland would essentially give the U.S. direct access to a rich supply of seafood.<\/p>\n What they’re saying<\/p>\n “My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China\u2014and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.”<\/p>\n The backstory<\/p>\n Though it is now back for a limited time,<\/a> Red Lobster initially discontinued its Endless Shrimp offering in 2024 after it was widely cited as a factor in the company\u2019s huge financial loss ahead of its bankruptcy filing.<\/p>\n The Endless Shrimp menu item accounted for $11 million of the company\u2019s $76 million net loss in 2023, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n The chain ended up shutting down dozens of locations in 2024.<\/p>\n The deal was reinstated in April 2026, though the cost may vary by location.<\/p>\n One location told\u00a0FOX Business<\/a> that they would be charging $24.99, nearly $5 more than it cost in 2024. Meanwhile,\u00a0USA Today<\/a> reported other locations could be charging $29.99.<\/p>\n The company did not say when the promotion would expire.<\/p>\n Greenland is not for sale<\/p>\n Big picture view<\/p>\n Trump and his administration have pushed the idea of taking over Greenland, citing national security concerns.<\/p>\n The president has stated that the U.S. needed to “take Greenland,” otherwise Russia or China would.<\/p>\n The White House considered a range of options, including military force, to acquire the vast Arctic island.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Trump said he\u2019d rather “make a deal” for the territory, “but one way or the other, we\u2019re going to have Greenland.”<\/p>\n The other side<\/p>\n Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen made it clear on Monday that the Greenlandic people continue to insist on self-determination.<\/p>\n “The Greenlandic people are not for sale. Greenlandic self-determination is not something that can be negotiated,” Nielsen was quoted by Danish TV 2.<\/p>\n Nielsen also reiterated that the Greenlandic people “seek good cooperation” with the U.S., and said his “courtesy meeting” with Landry took place with “mutual respect and in a positive atmosphere.”<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n Information for this article was taken from reporting by The New Yorker and previous reporting by FOX Business, FOX News and The Associated Press. This story was reported from San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Trump-appointed official suggested to The New Yorker that acquiring Greenland could give the U.S. greater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,57,58774,56913,58775,58773],"class_list":["post-118093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-official-biography","tag-red-lobster","tag-treasury-department","tag-us-arctic-research-commission"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116829786377262560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}