Donald Trump Jr. is flying to Greenland on Tuesday as his president-elect father refuses to back off his threats to try to acquire the strategically located land, a source familiar with the trip confirmed to The Post.
Don Jr. will not be meeting with any government officials but instead be scoping out the island to “shoot some fun video content for podcasting,” the source said.
President-elect Donald Trump has been making waves in recent weeks by claiming he wants the US to attain “ownership” of Greenland, harking back to his original pitch he made in his first term about trying to expand America’s territory to include the large Denmark-owned island.
A local Denmark outlet first reported the Don Jr. visit with Greenland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, also noting there was no official government visit planned.
The rhetoric from President-elect Trump has already prompted Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede to shoot back that the mineral-rich island is “not for sale and will never be for sale.”
The prime minister declared in his New Year’s speech that the island is seeking independence from the Kingdom of Denmark as part of a movement to remove its “shackles of colonialism.
“It is about time that we ourselves take a step and shape our future, also with regard to who we will cooperate closely with and who our trading partners will be,” the PM said in the weeks after Trump’s threats.
The president-elect has said the US should acquire Greenland to bolster America’s national security.
“The United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for national security and freedom around the world, he wrote on Truth Social.
The acquisition of the island would be the largest land addition in American history — even topping the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled the size of the United States at the time.
Sources close to Trump have told The Post he is “100% serious” about his intentions for Greenland and also regaining control of the Panama Canal. He believes that the bold rhetoric is a way to deter China from expanding its influence in the Western Hemisphere, sources have said.
