Trump is pushing for a European country. “He must let us”

– We request Greenland and the planet needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark must let us take Greenland. We will see what happens," Trump said during the ceremony of announcing customs duties for 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.

Greenland. Vice president of the United States is flying to a strategical island

Trump responded in this way, among others, to questions about the planned visit on Friday 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” as he announced. At the same time, in the face of opposition from the local and Danish authorities the visit of the wider delegation has been cancelled under the leadership of the second lady, whose goal was to tour the heritage sites and watch the yearly dog squad race.

In an earlier Wednesday interview with right-wing publicist Vince Cogliano, Trump stated that Vance's mission would be to hand over to the Grenlanders that America needs islands and that “must have it”.

Trump stood up for his coworkers. “It does a large job”

Answering questions in the Oval Office, Trump besides defended his national safety advisor one more time Michael Waltz in connection with the organisation and mistaken invitation of the writer "The Atlantic" to a group chat on planning

Trump stated that Waltz had "taken responsibility" for the accident, but stated that the scandal that ensued as a consequence of the disclosure of the discussion, is a “witch hunt”. He besides defended the head of the Pentagon Pete Hegseth, which included a detailed plan of impact in Yemen on the chat.

“Hegseth is doing a large job, he had nothing to do with it,” he said.