Greenland’s party leaders firmly reject Trump’s push for U.S. control of the island

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Greenland’s party leaders have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the U.S. to take control of the island, saying that Greenland’s future must be decided by its people. “We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement on Friday (January 9, 2026) night. Mr. Trump said again on Friday (January 9, 2026) that he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region that’s part of NATO ally Denmark, “the easy way.” He said…

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