“We request Greenland and the planet needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark must let us take Greenland. We'll see what happens," Trump said during ceremony to announce customs duties on abroad cars. “If you look at ships around Greenland: from China, Russia (...) if we are not there, we cannot have national or global security,” he added.
Trump responded in this way, among others, to questions about the planned Friday visit of U.S. Vice president J.D. Vance on the island. Vance and his wife will visit the space force base to “check out what is happening with safety in Greenland”, he said. At the same time, in the face of opposition from the local and Danish authorities, a visit of a wider delegation led by a second woman was cancelled, the intent of which was to tour the heritage sites and watch the yearly dog squad race.
Trump defends Hegseth
In an earlier Wednesday interview with right-wing publicist Vince Cogliano, Trump stated that Vance's mission would be to hand over to the Greenlandians that America “needs islands” and that “must have it”.
In answering questions in the Oval Office, Trump besides defended his national safety advisor Michael Waltz one more time in connection with a mistaken invitation by the writer The Atlantic to a group chat on 1 of the communicators.
Trump stated that Waltz “takes responsibility” for the accident, but stated that the scandal that broke out as a consequence of the disclosure of the discussion was “a witch hunt”. He besides defended Pentagon head Pete Hegseth, who withplaced a detailed impact plan in Yemen on the chat. “Hegseth does a large job, he had nothing to do with it,” he said.
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