Published February 11, 2025 8:45pm Updated February 11, 2025 8:45pm
President Donald Trump is simply a measurement person to being fixed the powerfulness to bargain Greenland – and rename it ‘Red, White and Blueland’.
A Republican Congressman introduced authorities connected Monday that would authorize Trump to participate into negotiations to get the autonomous territory of Denmark and rename it based connected the US flag.
‘America is backmost and volition soon beryllium bigger than ever with the summation of Red, White, and Blueland,’ stated Rep Buddy Carter, 67, of Georgia.
‘President Trump has correctly identified the acquisition of what is present Greenland arsenic a nationalist information priority, and we volition proudly invited its radical to articulation the freest federation to ever beryllium erstwhile our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.’
The Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 directs the Secretary of the Interior to oversee that Greenland is renamed successful national documents and maps wrong 180 days.
‘Any notation successful a law, map, regulation, document, paper, oregon different grounds of the United States to Greenland shall beryllium deemed to beryllium a notation to
13 ‘‘Red, White, and Blueland’’.
The measure indispensable archetypal beryllium studied by a committee earlier it tin spell for a ballot successful the House. It would past spell to the Senate.
It is being considered by lawmakers adjacent arsenic Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has repeatedly said that the Arctic land is ‘not for sale’.
Trump successful precocious January reinforced his tendency to acquisition the world’s largest island.
‘I deliberation Greenland volition beryllium worked retired with us. I deliberation we’re going to person it,’ said the US president who has agelong been funny successful acquiring it.
‘And I deliberation the radical privation to beryllium with us.’
Greenland has been nether Danish regularisation since the 19th period and has a colonisation of astir 57,000.
Trump has had his sights acceptable connected the land arsenic its determination would payment US nationalist security, and it has earthy resources that could go much easy accessible arsenic crystal is projected to melt overtime.
He has not ruled retired subject action to instrumentality Greenland.
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