{"id":20815,"date":"2026-02-22T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/20815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:55:07","slug":"trump-ridiculed-as-his-latest-move-on-greenland-has-one-big-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/20815\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ridiculed as his latest move on Greenland has one big problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is back talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greenland<\/a> again, a month after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/trump-greenland-deal-nato-denmark-mark-rutte-b2906097.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dropped threats to annex the Danish territory<\/a> in favour of a \u201cframework of a future deal\u201d discussed with Nato chief Mark Rutte \u2013 but there\u2019s a major issue with the latest development.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/truth-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Truth Social<\/a> platform on Saturday, the Republican wrote: \u201cWorking with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It\u2019s on the way!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Landry was appointed \u201cUnited States Special Envoy to Greenland\u201d alongside his governor role in December, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/trump-greenland-jeff-landry-louisiana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a move slammed as \u201coutrageous\u201d online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And X\/Twitter users had something to say about the hospital boat too \u2013 namely that Greenlanders benefit from free healthcare:<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Aaron Rupar branded Trump\u2019s latest decision \u201ccompletely psychotic\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Political commentator and YouTuber Adam Mockler suggested: \u201cHow about helping sick Americans first?\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll is well here in Greenland,\u201d said Greenlandic activist Orla Joelsen:<\/p>\n<p>Canada Hates Trump pointed out Greenland \u201chas 56,000 people and universal healthcare&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Contrasting Greenland\u2019s healthcare situation with the US, PatriotTakes noted Trump has \u201ccut Medicaid for Americans\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement came just hours after Denmark\u2019s Joint Arctic Command <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-greenland-hospital-boat-b2925143.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly evacuated a US Navy crew member from a submarine<\/a> in Greenlandic waters, with the sailor requiring urgent medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-powered submarine broke from its mission and surfaced roughly eight miles from Nuuk, Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Why not read\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/newsletters?itm_channel=native&amp;itm_campaign=footer&amp;itm_audience=prospecting&amp;itm_content=newsletters\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a> to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/indy100-news-updates-whatsapp-channel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to join<\/a> the indy100&#8217;s free WhatsApp channel<\/p>\n<p>Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump is back talking about Greenland again, a month after he dropped threats to annex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,184,57,2016,38,9318],"class_list":["post-20815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-us-navy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815","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=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}