Trump given power to rename Greenland under new GOP-led bill: 'Red, White and Blueland'

President Donald Trump would person the powerfulness to rename Greenland the 'Red, White and Blueland,' nether a caller measure introduced successful Congress.

The authorities gives Trump the powerfulness to participate into negotiations with Denmark to get Greenland and springiness the land the caller moniker.

Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia introduced the measure connected Monday. It inactive needs to walk the House and Senate. 

Trump claims America needs the land for information reasons.  He's besides been connected a renaming kick: connected Sunday helium signed an enforcement bid renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

Denmark's premier curate has said repeatedly Greenland is 'not for sale' but that hasn't stopped Trump's fixation connected it.

'I deliberation we're going to person it,' helium has told reporters.  He besides claims Greenland's 57,000 residents 'want to beryllium with us' though galore connected the land accidental otherwise. 

Greenland is strategically important fixed its presumption successful the Atlantic Ocean betwixt the United States and Russia. America already has a subject basal the island. But it's  besides location to galore uncommon world minerals important to technology. 

Denmark holds nominal sovereignty implicit the island, an statement dating backmost to assemblage times. 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has repeatedly said Greenland is not for merchantability and has told Trump that successful telephone calls betwixt the 2 leaders.  

Meanwhile, the Danes person launched their ain effort to acquisition America's astir prosperous state: California.

An online petition seeking the 'Denmarkification' of California has astir 200,000 signatures.

'Have you ever looked astatine a representation and thought, 'You cognize what Denmark needs? More sunshine, thenar trees, and roller skates.' Well, we person a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to marque that imagination a reality,' petition organizers write.

Organizers estimation they request $1 trillion to acquisition the authorities from Trump.

They besides offered to thrown successful a beingness proviso of Danish pastries to sweeten the deal. 

Trump is not a instrumentality of California's wide manner nor its left-leaning Governor, Gavin Newsom. He's called it a 'failed state.'

Still he's highly dissimilar to enactment it up for sale. 

California is the authorities with the highest system successful the U.S. with a $4.080 trillion gross authorities merchandise (GSP) arsenic of 2024. That besides makes it the sixth largest system successful the world.

Greenland's value has accrued successful caller years arsenic melting Arctic ice opens caller shipping routes, sparking contention among planetary powers for power successful the strategically located portion betwixt the U.S. and Russia. 

The territory and its surrounding waters are besides abundant successful invaluable earthy resources specified as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and uncommon world elements. Those are captious components successful emerging greenish technologies, specified arsenic upwind turbines and electrical vehicles, vigor retention technologies and nationalist information applications.

Currently, Denmark retains work for Greenland's defense. 

Trump originally floated the thought of acquiring Greenland successful his archetypal word successful bureau erstwhile discussing the imaginable with his elder advisers backmost successful 2019. 

But helium near bureau without making immoderate question toward acquiring the territory. However helium did cancel a authorities sojourn to Copenhagen erstwhile the Danes refused his connection to acquisition the island.

The United States tried - and failed - to bargain Greenland aft World War II. But it did found the Pituffik Space Base astatine the bluish extremity of the island.