President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to take over Greenland, according to the Dutch publication “Ekstra Bladet.”
In response to the article, European Parliament member Henrik Dahl posted on X, “I say: enough with the velvet gloves,” noting that he’s prepared to begin responding to the United States as if it were an adversary rather than an ally.
A Google-translated version of the article cites Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.), saying in an interview that he had a discussion with the president about the matter recently.
“The president called me Saturday night and said we have to get Greenland,” Landry said while speaking in an interview with “The Alex Marlow Show.” He added that the U.S. president “hasn’t forgotten.”
Landry made it clear that the people of Greenland will be part of the United States and that he believes they want to join the U.S. too.
The special envoy said that he thinks they will likely send more military personnel “so we can repopulate our bases, by creating a direct shipping route between the U.S. and Greenland.”
There’s no land blocking Greenland from the United States, and direct flights from Newark go to the island a few times a week.
When Landry was in Greenland in May, Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen made it clear in a press conference that Greenlandic society “must be respected.”
In his statement on X, Dahl wrote that he’s prepared to use the law and force.
“The U.S. Consulate in Nuuk should be closed. All American diplomats in Greenland should be expelled. Any American who sets foot on Danish soil and advocates that the United States should take over Greenland should be arrested and deported,” he said.
Dahl also called on NATO to meet and prepare, saying that “a foreign state is attempting to alter the constitutional status of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
He commented he wanted to end on a “friendly note,” wishing the U.S. a happy 250th birthday.
“I only wish there were some American products we could throw into the harbor in Nuuk,” he said, referring back to the Boston Tea Party, when the colonists rebelled against Britain by throwing tea into the harbor.
“By your actions leading up to July 4, 1776, you showed the rest of us exactly what one should do with an arrogant colonial power. Your example from back then remains an inspiration,” Dahl closed.