{"id":23258,"date":"2026-02-24T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/23258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:05:07","slug":"donald-trump-says-hospital-ship-on-the-way-to-greenland-navy-says-no-orders-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/23258\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says hospital ship \u2018on the way\u2019 to Greenland \u2014 Navy says no orders issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/us-president-donald-trump-file-image.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump says hospital ship \u2018on the way\u2019 to Greenland \u2014 Navy says no orders issued\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The Pentagon reportedly did not receive any orders to send a hospital ship to Greenland, despite President Donald Trump claiming over the weekend that a vessel was \u201con the way.\u201dThe military did not receive orders to deploy any Navy vessels, The Wall Street Journal reported, and both Navy hospital ships were reportedly docked at a shipyard in Alabama.The Independent contacted the Navy, Pentagon, and White House for comment.On Saturday, President Trump claimed a mission was heading for the self-governing Danish territory, posting an image of the Navy\u2019s USNS Mercy hospital ship.\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,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cIt\u2019s on the way!!!\u201dThe same day as the President\u2019s post, the Danish military conducted an emergency medical evacuation of a crew member on a US submarine near Greenland, flying them via helicopter to a hospital in the island\u2019s capital, Nuuk, for treatment.Leaders in Greenland and Denmark dismissed the suggestion a hospital ship was needed.\u201cThat will be a \u2018no thanks\u2019 from us,\u2019\u201d Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen wrote on Facebook Sunday.\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s idea to send a US hospital ship here to Greenland has been duly noted,\u201d he added. \u201cBut we have a public health system where care is free for citizens.\u201d\u201cHappy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all,\u201d Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wrote in a separate statement. \u201cWhere it\u2019s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment. You have the same approach in Greenland.\u201dLandry, who also served as the special US envoy to Greenland, reacted angrily to the condemnation from the officials.\u201cShame on Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen!\u201d he wrote on X on Sunday.\u201cAfter speaking to many Greenlanders about the day to day problems they face, one issue stood out\u2014healthcare,\u201d he added. \u201cMany villages and small towns lack basic services that Americans often take for granted.\u201dThe confusion over the hospital ship mission came amid larger tensions between the US and its neighbour to the north, given President Trump\u2019s repeated overtures suggesting he wanted to take over or perhaps invade Greenland despite opposition from local officials and European partners.In January, Trump swore off using military force on Greenland and rowed back a threat to tariff US allies who opposed the push.He said the US and NATO allies reached a \u201cframework of a future deal\u201d about the Arctic island territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon reportedly did not receive any orders to send a hospital ship to Greenland, despite President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[15549,57,14392,3376,15550,15551],"class_list":["post-23258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-donald-trump-greenland-hospital-ship-claim","tag-greenland","tag-greenland-healthcare-system","tag-pentagon","tag-us-hospital-ship-to-greenland","tag-usns-mercy-hospital-ship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258","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=23258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}