{"id":31235,"date":"2026-03-03T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/31235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:13:17","slug":"us-senator-apologizes-for-lindsey-grahams-appalling-outburst-at-danish-pm-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/31235\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator apologizes for Lindsey Graham\u2019s \u2018appalling\u2019 outburst at Danish PM \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina senator began the meeting by repeatedly cursing, according to a Congressional aide briefed on the matter, who recounted how he told Frederiksen: \u201cWho gives a fuck who owns Greenland?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graham then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlingske.dk\/internationalt\/trumps-man-in-munich-completely-lashed-out-at-mette-frederiksen-little-lady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly branded<\/a> the Danish premier a \u201clittle lady.\u201d The exchange was enough to prompt Slotkin to walk out of the meeting within the first 10 minutes, said the Congressional aide, who was granted anonymity to speak freely. It was \u201cappalling\u201d and \u201cwildly inappropriate,\u201d the aide added. Details of the meeting were <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/inside-lindsey-grahams-greenland-meltdown-in-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first reported by Puck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the letter, Graham doubled down, telling POLITICO: \u201cI\u2019ll say again, I don\u2019t give a crap who owns Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main point for me about Greenland is that President Trump would like to fortify the island to make NATO\u2019s arctic defenses stronger,\u201d he said. \u201cIn my view, the response from European countries and officials in Greenland have missed the big picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks underscore the persisting deep tensions between Washington and Copenhagen even after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/21\/trump-greenland-rules-out-force-00738640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">formally withdrew his territorial claim<\/a> to Greenland late last month. The letter also reflects just how much internal pushback the U.S. president faced in his campaign for the self-ruling Arctic territory \u2014 a factor widely assumed to have played a part in his subsequent backpedaling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threats of using military force to take over \u2026 Greenland, and indeed the tone taken with you in our meeting, do not reflect the views of the majority of Americans,\u201d Slotkin wrote. \u201cThreats to invade sovereign territory are unnecessary and fundamentally counterproductive to Americans\u2019 safety and security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Carolina senator began the meeting by repeatedly cursing, according to a Congressional aide briefed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,57,1111,4090,2443,2276,76],"class_list":["post-31235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-military","tag-munich-security-conference","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235","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=31235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}