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President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland after renewed interest in the self-governing Danish territory in recent weeks.
“I think we will,” he told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday, adding that the island’s 56,000 residents “want to be with us.”
His comments came after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Greenland was not for sale in a heated phone call with the president last week.
Trump floated the possibility of buying the territory during his first term in 2019, and has called US control of Greenland an “absolute necessity” for international security.
“I think people want to be with us,” Trump said in the press room on the presidential plane.
“I don’t really know what Denmark’s claim is, but it would be a very unpopular act if they didn’t allow this to happen, because it’s for the protection of the free world,” he added.
“I think we’re going to get Greenland because it’s about the freedom of the world,” Trump continued.
“It has nothing to do with the United States, that we are the ones who can give freedom. They can’t.”
