President Donald Trump has dismissed the Prime Minister of Greenland as someone he doesn’t even know, threatening him with a “big problem” after Jens-Frederik Nielsen reaffirmed the island’s commitment to Denmark over the United States.

The confrontation over Trump’s ambitions to acquire the strategic Arctic island reached a new peak at a joint press conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday, where Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen presented a united front.

“If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU,” Nielsen stated.

Those comments, made on the eve of high-level talks in Washington between Danish and Greenlandic officials and US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, drew a sharp retort from Trump.

“That’s their problem,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. “I disagree with them. I don’t know who he is, I don’t know anything about him, but that’s going to be a big problem for him.”

Trump has repeatedly argued that the US must control Greenland to prevent Chinese or Russian dominance – an allegation disputed not only by Moscow and Beijing, but also by regional officials. “One way or the other, we’re gonna have Greenland,” he reiterated on Sunday.

The threat comes amid a legislative move by Florida Congressman Randy Fine, who introduced the ‘Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act,’ which would authorize the President to take “whatever steps necessary” to acquire the territory. Danish officials have forcefully rejected the premise, with Ambassador Jesper Moller Sorensen stating he made it “abundantly clear” to Fine that Greenland is part of Denmark.

While Copenhagen has expressed willingness to deepen security cooperation with the US within the NATO framework, it insists the island’s future lies with its people, who voted in 2008 to retain self-governing status within the Danish realm. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte declined to comment directly on the dispute, stating his role is to ensure security in the Arctic.

https://www.rt.com/news/630931-trump-greenland-big-problem/

 

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‘A jellyfish has more spine than Europeans’ – professor on Trump’s plans to annex Greenland
Any European troop deployment to the Arctic over the “imaginary” Russian and Chinese threats would be merely symbolic, Greg Simons has told RT

Europe is too weak to stand up to US President Donald Trump’s ambitions to bring Greenland under American control, journalism professor Greg Simons has said. 

Trump stated last week that the US must annex Greenland – a Danish self-governing island – to contain Russia and China, claiming the two countries would “take over” the island unless Washington acted first. Several media outlets have since reported that the UK, France and other European states are discussing plans to send ground forces to Greenland to signal that they take Arctic security seriously. 

Speaking to RT on Tuesday, Simons, who teaches at Daffodil International University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, said European governments lack the strength and will to resist Trump. 

“A jellyfish has more spine than these Europeans and the EU at this stage,” he argued, calling their stance “hypocritical.” 

Commenting on the reports of a potential deployment, Simons said such a move would be largely symbolic. Any European troop presence in Greenland or the wider Arctic would amount to “a token number of troops” facing an “imaginary threat of Chinese and Russian destroyers and submarines,” he argued, adding that even Denmark had acknowledged there were no such vessels in the area. 

Rather than reflecting strategic autonomy, the idea shows Europe trying to placate Washington, Simons believes. “It’s an attempt to try and appease Trump,” he said, adding that the message to the US president would be: “See, we’re helping you, so there is no need to annex.”

He argued that “de-industrialized Europe” is “gutted” and has “very pathetically sized armies which are nothing to speak of,” leaving it unable to compete with the US for control of Greenland or the wider Arctic.

READ MORE: Denmark pushes back against US Greenland annexation bill

Denmark has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and that the island’s future must be decided by its residents, who voted in 2008 to retain self-governing status within the Danish realm. 

Beijing has criticized Washington for using Russia and China as “pretexts” for a deeper push into the Arctic. Moscow has yet to officially respond to Trump’s latest remarks, but it has previously stressed that Greenland’s future must be determined by its citizens and dismissed claims that Russia poses a threat.

https://www.rt.com/news/630918-europe-trump-greenland-annexation/

 

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Senators Murkowski (R-AK) and Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the NATO Unity Protection Act, prohibiting the use of Pentagon or State Department funds to blockade, occupy, annex, or control any NATO ally’s sovereign territory without their consent.

The bill is a direct bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration signals about forcibly taking Greenland, warning such a move would “violate the UN Charter,” “fracture NATO,” and “undermine America’s own national security.” 

"Any suggestion that the US might use its power to seize or control the territory of a NATO ally would directly undermine the alliance," said Senator Shaheen.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that Greenland should become part of the US, citing its strategic importance for national security and the defense of the "free world," including from China and Russia. Denmark's and Greenland's authorities warned the US against seizing the island, noting that they expect respect for their shared territorial integrity....

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Western European nations are “vassals” of the US and will inevitably submit if President Donald Trump moves to annex Greenland, American journalist John Varoli has told RT.

The US president has renewed his push for Denmark to relinquish control of the Arctic island, arguing that Copenhagen is too weak to “protect” it against an alleged Chinese and Russian threat. “One way or the other, we’re gonna have Greenland,” he told journalists on Sunday.

The UK, Germany, and other European states have reportedly promised to work on building a heavier military presence in Danish overseas territory – but nothing will happen without Washington’s consent, Varoli told RT in an interview on Tuesday.

“The US will not let the European powers deploy any troops to Greenland because Washington… they want total control and conquest of Greenland,” Varoli said.

“They can threaten, they can throw tantrums and make all the statements they want,” but the US always gets its way, he said. “The Europeans, at the end of the day, let’s be very clear, they are the vassals, and they will have to do whatever Washington says.”

"NATO is the US,” Varoli argued, recalling how Secretary General Mark Rutte called Trump “daddy” at a summit in The Hague last June.

“The European powers know that the big daddy is in charge, the big daddy in the White House,” he said. “Trump wants to go down in American history as the greatest American president. And for that to happen, he thinks it means… acquisition of new territories, conquest.”

Denmark has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and that the island’s future must be decided by its residents, who voted in 2008 to retain self-governing status within the Danish realm. In the meantime, Florida Congressman Randy Fine introduced a bill that would authorize Trump to take “whatever steps necessary” to annex Greenland.

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NATO chief Mark Rutte has been branded a groveling “McDonald’s employee of the month” by a senior EU politician, in a brutal critique of his fawning message to US President Donald Trump.

The jab, posted on X by French MEP and former chair of the European Parliament’s defense subcommittee Nathalie Loiseau, followed the public release of a private text. In it, Rutte addressed Trump as “dear Donald,”praised his “incredible”accomplishments, and assured him of his commitment to finding a “way forward” on the US president’s ambition to acquire Greenland.

”Mark Rutte does not run NATO; he is the equivalent of McDonald’s employee of the month,” Loiseau wrote on X on Tuesday.

Her scorn targets a well-established pattern. Rutte’s tenure has been marked by a consistent strategy of lavish public flattery toward Trump, which critics deride as subservience but which the secretary-general defends as pragmatic diplomacy.

The approach was on stark display at last year’s NATO summit. In pre-summit texts, Rutte told Trump he was “flying into another big success” as European members agreed to increase military spending. During a joint press conference, when Trump likened tensions in the Middle East to a schoolyard fight, Rutte interjected that “then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”

The “daddy” remark and gushing texts were widely condemned in European media as “cringe-worthy” and an “orchestrated grovel.” Loiseau’s ‘Employee of the Month’ metaphor, a common corporate award for dutiful service, frames Rutte not as an independent leader, but as a subordinate performing for the approval of a superior.

The spat unfolds amid a transatlantic crisis over Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark. After European leaders uniformly rejected the idea, Trump threatened tariffs on several European nations, prompting preparations for countermeasures.

READ MORE: EU preparing ‘carrot-and-stick’ response to Trump over Greenland – FT

The tension is fueled by Trump’s longstanding grievances with NATO's European members, whom he has accused of historically failing to meet defense spending targets, and doubted the military bloc would defend the US, arguing it is weak without American power.

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An American oil company backed by powerful associates of US President Donald Trump has shipped drilling equipment to Greenland without permission from the Danish territory’s government. Is Trump trying to annex Greenland one bite at a time?

Less than two weeks ago, a Danish tugboat towed a cargo ship into port at Nerlerit Inaat, 450 kilometers above the Arctic circle on Greenland’s east coast. The cargo ship, operated by a company called Permagreen, unloaded an excavator and 15 containers of equipment, before leaving the following day, according to Danwatch, a Danish investigative journalism outlet.

A Permagreen spokesperson told Danwatch that the company was hired by the Texas-based Greenland Energy Company to deliver “some machinery and equipment that will support their oil exploration” in the region of Jameson Land. 

The Greenland Energy Company had no permission to deliver the equipment, Greenland’s Energy Ministry said in a press release, adding that the company has still not been granted the necessary permits to drill in Jameson Land, a wetland area protected by the international Ramsar Convention.

Is the Greenland Energy Company allowed to drill?

Despite the lack of approval by Greenland itself, the Greenland Energy Company is treating drilling as a foregone conclusion. The company posted a series of updates on social media as Permagreen’s tugboat left Denmark and docked at Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk. On LinkedIn, oilfield machinery company Stampede Drilling posted a picture of a drilling rig bearing Greenland Energy’s logo, declaring that it was “Greenland bound.”

The company has claimed that another ship carrying 300 containers of drilling equipment is ready to set sail from Canada to Greenland on September 12. Exploratory drilling will begin in October, a spokesperson told The Guardian.

However, Greenland stopped issuing new oil drilling licenses in 2021. No significant deposits had been found in the preceding 50 years, and the government in Nuuk concluded that the environmental impact was not worth the meager returns. A handful of licenses remain active, including one covering Jameson Land, held by a UK-based company called 80 Mile. Greenland Energy has said that it will fund exploration on 80 Mile’s land, in exchange for 70% of revenue generated by the project. 

Despite operating under 80 Mile’s license, Greenland Energy must still obtain the necessary permits. “The project is still in the exploration phase,” Greenland’s energy ministry stated in a press release in early August. Even if the permits are granted with no delays, no drilling will take place this year, a ministry spokesperson told Danwatch.

On August 8, Greenland Energy described “recent high-level meetings with Greenlandic authorities” as “constructive.”

How much oil is under Jameson Land?

 

Greenland Energy believes that $1 trillion worth of crude oil may lie beneath the Jameson Land Basin. The company plans to spend $60 million on an exploratory well, with the project to be expanded “once the results of the first have been analysed.”

“I believe it’s there,” Greenland Energy CEO Robert Price told residents of a Jameson Land village in June. “The scientists believe that it’s there. But until we drill these wells, we don’t know.”

Is the project connected to Trump’s Greenland annexation plans?

 

Greenland Energy was incorporated on September 5, 2025, a week after it emerged that Trump had sent three associates to Greenland to meet with local secessionists, who want to break away from Denmark. The Danish Foreign Ministry summoned the US charge d’affaires in Copenhagen to explain what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called “unacceptable” interference in Danish affairs. 

Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Greenland throughout his second term in office, claiming that the US needs the landmass “for the purpose of national security” – namely to host elements of his promised ‘Golden Dome’ ballistic missile defense network. Trump has also said directly that he wants “Greenland for its rare-earth minerals.”

While Trump has not publicly expressed interest in Greenland’s potential oil wealth, the Greenland Energy project is backed by multiple close associates of the US president, including his special envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.

Landry made an uninvited visit to Nuuk in May, declaring upon arrival that it was “time for the US to put its footprint back on Greenland.” Oil exploration is a key part of this footprint, he told Fox News after the trip. “We need a deal,” he said. “Greenland needs a deal. We could be – Greenland could be – exporting two million barrels of oil a day right now.”

“We could have those barrels on production within 10 months or so,” Landry added.

Carol Craig, a US Navy veteran, joined Greenland Energy’s board in April. Craig is the founder and CEO of Sidus Space, a defense contractor that won part of a $151 billion contract to build the ‘Golden Dome’ last December. Craig’s “background in aerospace, defense, and engineering will be invaluable as we advance our exploration program in Greenland’s Jameson Land Basin,” Greenland Energy said when it announced her appointment to the board.

Wrapping up the list of Trump associates tied in to the project is Phil McGraw, better known as TV host Dr. Phil. McGraw campaigned with Trump in 2024, leads the president’s religious liberty commission, and was hired by Greenland Energy in June to produce a documentary series following its drillers into the Jameson Land Basin. 

“That’s an oilman who drills when nobody else has the guts to do it,” McGraw said in an interview with Price. “This is exploration under the Northern Lights, how exciting can it get!

Nobody involved with the project has publicly discussed the annexation of Greenland, but drilling and territorial acquisition are seemingly connected in Trump’s mind: On August 1, two days after the first equipment was dropped off at Nerlerit Inaat, the president posted an image of himself looming over Greenland on his Truth Social platform, along with the caption “Hello, Greenland!”

The Danish government has not commented on the arrival of drilling equipment to Greenland, nor has Copenhagen commented on the validity of the Greenland Energy/80 Mile drilling license. After Trump once again declared last month that Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Frederiksen reiterated that “it is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.”

Frederiksen has given the same response when Trump attempted to purchase Greenland from Denmark, and when he warned that seizing the territory by military force “is always an option.” 

With neither approach swaying officials in Copenhagen and Nuuk, the president may now be attempting to expand the US foothold in Greenland in order to present occupation as a fait accompli. If such a plan exists, it all hinges on Greenland Energy discovering oil where five decades of exploration failed.

https://www.rt.com/news/644086-trump-oil-greenland-annexation/

 

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