Cold Rejection 

Friday March 14, The President of The United States of America, Donald Trump, faced a harsh rejection from Mute Egede, the current Prime Minister of Greenland. The rejection came in light of comments made by Trump in regards to the annexation of Greenland, after their election earlier this week gave way for the Democratic party to take office.

Greenland, the world’s largest island, recently casted election results polling a shocking 30% vote for the Democratic party. This party is pro-independence and in recent years, has largely grown in popularity. In past elections only 9% of votes supported the Democratic candidate. As more of the people of Greenland want to gain independence from Denmark, the massive push against being annexed by the U.S. is becoming popularized as well. 85% of a surveyed population are opposed to Greenland becoming an American territory. Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the next Prime Minister of Greenland, has made the country’s opinion clear, they do not want to be governed by a greater entity.

The idea of annexing Greenland has been brewing for years. Beginning in his first presidency, Donald Trump proposed the idea and again in 2025, he allowed the idea to come back into the limelight. He is now facing the rejection of his proposal. The interest in acquiring the territory stems from the existing U.S military base and the mineral wealth of the country. Currently, there are laws in Greenland in place that prohibit the excessive mining of uranium to minimize the pollution yielded from such efforts. The newly elected democratic party is in favor of overturning the ban on mining the island’s resources, a very attractive feature of the campaign from Trump’s perspective. He expressed that this was “a good election for us” on Tuesday, March 11, in response to the poll results.

Thursday March 13th, Trump controversially discussed the desire to annex Greenland with General Mark Rutte, Secretary of NATO. Trump pointed out that the Arctic island was needed for international security purposes. Rutte attempted to keep NATO neutral, but agreed that the security would be important to combat Chinese and Russian interests. Trump previously did not oppose the idea of using economic or military coercion to accelerate the process of acquiring Greenland. This gave rise to concern for Rasmus Jarlov, chairman of the defense committee in Denmark’s parliament. He rebutted stating that Trump’s endeavors are going to cause a war between two NATO countries.

This situation is at a standstill as both the current and upcoming Prime Ministers of Greenland have harshly rejected the proposals from the President of the US. The island has called a meeting of party leaders to further develop a plan to “strengthen our rejection of Trump” as quoted by Egede before his time in office concludes. At that point in time, Nielsen will take over, with the same opinion towards Trump’s proposal stating “Trump’s statement from the USA is inappropriate and once again shows that in such situations, we must stand together.” We await further updates on the situation, though it seems that Greenland will not be passive towards Trump’s conquest.