{"id":58245,"date":"2026-04-09T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/58245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:37:07","slug":"greenland-prime-minister-rebuffs-trump-remarks-as-nato-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/58245\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland prime minister rebuffs Trump remarks as NATO tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen: Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen \u200bsaid on Thursday that he represents a proud nation seeking to maintain global order, pushing back against the latest comments about \u200cthe Arctic \u2060island by \u2060U.S. President Donald Trump.<br \/>Trump on Wednesday vented his frustration with \u200bNATO as relations reached a crisis point over the Iran war, \u200bstating that the military alliance was not around when needed, and that he still remembered Greenland, a &#8220;BIG, POORLY \u200bRUN, PIECE OF ICE&#8221;.<br \/>Also Read: <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/us\/after-iran-ceasefire-is-trump-turning-to-greenland-again-his-remarks-spark-fresh-buzz\/articleshow\/130112310.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After Iran ceasefire, is Trump turning to Greenland again? His remarks spark fresh buzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is important \u2060for us \u200cis that we maintain the \u200bworld community that \u200bwe have built after World War \u2060Two, where we have a defence alliance that we \u200brespect, and where we have international law \u200brespected by all sides,&#8221; Nielsen told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events&#8221;Those things are being challenged now, and I think all allies should stand together to try to maintain them. I hope that will happen,&#8221; he said.<br \/><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nato-allies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NATO allies<\/a> \u200chad already been scrambling earlier this year to find ways to keep the alliance together after Trump revived his push \u2060to seize Greenland from Denmark, a fellow NATO member.<br \/>Also Read: <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/global-trends\/falling-trust-in-america-is-a-pandoras-box-for-the-global-economy\/articleshow\/130144553.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Falling trust in America is a Pandora\u2019s box for the global economy<\/a><br \/>Nielsen on Thursday pushed back against Trump&#8217;s characterisation of his country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200bare not some piece of ice. We are a proud population of 57,000 people, working every single day as good global citizens in full respect for all our allies,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copenhagen: Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen \u200bsaid on Thursday that he represents a proud nation seeking to maintain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32109,5414,57,32110,32106,32107,32108,10651,12620,9195],"class_list":{"0":"post-58245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-arctic-island-status","9":"tag-donald-trump-greenland","10":"tag-greenland","11":"tag-greenland-population","12":"tag-greenland-prime-minister","13":"tag-greenland-representation","14":"tag-international-law-respect","15":"tag-nato-allies","16":"tag-nato-tensions","17":"tag-us-denmark-relations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116375496087292784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58245","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=58245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}