{"id":124444,"date":"2026-07-07T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/124444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:07:15","slug":"trump-says-greenland-should-be-controlled-by-us-not-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/124444\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Greenland should be controlled by US, not Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story audio is generated using AI<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ankara \u2014 US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Greenland should be controlled by the US, not Denmark, ahead of a Nato summit in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s assertions that the US must acquire or control Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, sparked tensions between Washington and Copenhagen, both founding Nato members, and more broadly across Europe. The issue has since moved to a diplomatic track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,\u201d Trump told reporters during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump said the issue of control over Greenland had harmed US ties with Nato.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessday.co.za\/world\/americas\/2026-07-04-trump-extols-america-rails-at-communism-in-us-250th-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.businessday.co.za\/world\/americas\/2026-07-04-trump-extols-america-rails-at-communism-in-us-250th-celebration\/\">Trump extols America, rails at communism in US 250th celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what hurt my relationship with Nato, because Greenland doesn\u2019t help Denmark. Denmark doesn\u2019t spend money to really help Greenland, but it\u2019s an important part for the United States, and it\u2019s surrounded by China ships and Russian ships, and that\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in June that conversations with Denmark and Greenland were continuing monthly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story audio is generated using AI Ankara \u2014 US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Greenland should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,10024,57362,14379,9188,9195],"class_list":["post-124444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-greenland-sovereignty","tag-nato-summit-turkey","tag-trump-greenland-comments","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-denmark-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116879795571525556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124444","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=124444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}