Donald Trump Jr. is expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday, just weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, ruffled feathers by reiterating his desire to obtain control over the autonomous Danish territory. <\/p>\n
The ministry\u2019s comment came after Reuters reported the island\u2019s permanent secretary for foreign affairs Mininnguaq Kleist as saying the trip was a \u201cprivate visit.\u201d It also quoted a source familiar as saying the trip was a one-day visit to shoot video footage for a podcast. <\/p>\n
The US president-elect last month made headlines when he resurfaced his desire to obtain the vast Arctic territory, calling it an \u201cabsolute necessity\u201d for \u201cpurposes of national security and freedom throughout the World.\u201d <\/p>\n
He previously floated the idea of purchasing Greenland from Denmark in his first term as president, but the idea was shot down by the island\u2019s government, which said at the time that it was \u201cnot for sale.\u201d <\/p>\n
Greenland\u2019s Prime Minister Mute Egede responded to the US president-elect\u2019s latest comments on Facebook, by reiterating that it is \u201cnot for sale and will never be for sale,\u201d while the office of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen \u2013 who called Trump\u2019s first-term suggestion that Greenland could be purchased \u201cabsurd\u201d \u2013 echoed Egede. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as statements about Greenland, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has no comments other than reference to what was stated by the premier of Greenland about Greenland not being for sale, but open for cooperation,\u201d the office added. <\/p>\n
Trump is not the first American leader to have expressed an interest in controlling Greenland, which is home to Thule Air Base, the US military\u2019s northernmost base, located about 750 miles above the Arctic Circle and built in 1951. <\/p>\n
Though President Harry Truman dodged questions about his pursuit of control in the region, the United States allegedly tried to buy Greenland in 1946, and in 1867, Secretary of State William Seward showed interest in purchasing the island. <\/p>\n
According to Reuters, Greenland\u2019s prime minister stepped up a push for independence from Denmark in his recent new year\u2019s speech, saying it should break free from \u201cthe shackles of colonialism.\u201d <\/p>\n
Egede did not, however, mention the United States. <\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Steve Contorno, Katherine Sullivan, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta and Caroline Kelly<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Donald Trump Jr. is expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday, just weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, ruffled feathers by reiterating his desire to obtain control over the autonomous Danish territory. The ministry\u2019s comment came after Reuters reported the island\u2019s permanent secretary for foreign affairs Mininnguaq Kleist as saying the trip was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}