New Cold War: Trump Doubles Down on Greenland Bid as Denmark Draws a Line in the Ice
As a U.S.-Danish working group forms to negotiate the matter, Danish military intelligence warns about Russian and Chinese military ambitions in Greenland and the Arctic region.
The saga of President Donald Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland for the U.S. continues with some fascinating developments over the last few days, especially the tweet asserting that full control of the Arctic Island is his ultimate goal.
Whether this is reality, a negotiating tactic, or a diversion to refocus attention from other matters remains to be seen.
In my last report, I noted that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had agreed to meet with officials from Denmark and Greenland on the matter. Since then, there has been a sharp escalation of the U.S. push to bring Greenland under American control, capped today by a tense White House meeting that included Vice President J.D. Vance.
The meeting produced a new U.S.–Danish working group but left the core dispute between the U.S. and their Danish and Greenlandic counterparts unresolved.
“Greenland is very important for the national security, including of Denmark,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And the problem is there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there’s everything we can do. You found that out last week with Venezuela,” he added.
Earlier in the day, the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance at the White House.
Following that meeting, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt said the U.S. and Denmark would form a working group to discuss a broad array of concerns regarding the island that could meet in the coming weeks.
But they also made clear that Washington had not budged on its position that it must acquire Greenland, an outcome Rasmussen and Motzfeldt described as an unacceptable breach of sovereignty.
🚨 JUST IN: Denmark and Greenland officials have ARRIVED at the White House to meet with JD Vance and Sec. Marco Rubio
Time to acquire Greenland!
NATO has another thing coming if they think Trump is going to surrender Greenland to China and Russia. pic.twitter.com/WVj5YAoB8S
— JOHN_THE GREAT PATRIOT 🇺🇸 (@realmagaJohnQ) January 14, 2026
The Danish official went big on the hyperbole after the meeting, asserting that Trump wanted to conquer Greenland.
A top Danish official said Wednesday that a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after holding highly anticipated White House talks with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
…”The group, in our view, should focus on how to address the American security concerns, while at the same time respecting the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told reporters after joining Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, for the talks.
He added that it remains “clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland.”
NOW – Danish Foreign Minister after Greenland meeting: "It's clear that the president [Trump] has this wish of conquering over Greenland." pic.twitter.com/NC2QQq1hnW
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 14, 2026
The Danes drew a line in the ice by stating that “Greenland was not for sale”, despite an offer of potentially $700 billion dollars (the cost of 3 Somali daycares).
Denmark 🇩🇰 once again tells trump that Greenland is not for sale.
Greenland says no.
IT'S A NO.
Hands off their freedom!#StandWithGreeland 🇬🇱 pic.twitter.com/WaJ7WjwGbB— Myriam F. 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@FacciniMyriam) December 23, 2025
One possible reason for Trump’s intense focus on acquiring Greenland actually stems from a security analysis prepared by the Danes. Danish military intelligence indicates that Russia and China are actively building up military and strategic capabilities in the Arctic and see Greenland and nearby waters as important in any future conflict.
[T]the “Intelligence Outlook 2025” report on the security of the Kingdom of Denmark, released just last month, had warned at great length that “China is preparing for a military presence in the Arctic” and that “China’s long-term Arctic interests include Greenland.” The report highlighted Chinese air-based, seaborne, and submersible activities in the Arctic.
The Danish intelligence report had further assessed that the militaries of China and Russia were collaborating more closely in the Arctic, displaying the growing “DragonBear” alliance between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The report noted that Russia “uses every available tool to monitor and chart the waters between Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the United Kingdom” as “part of the preparations for a potential confrontation with NATO” and as the Kremlin deploys submarines, ships, and planes near Greenland.
Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic https://t.co/aPTKW76Nhn
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 14, 2026
Analysts this week highlighted that the Cold War‑era defense pact already allows Washington to expand its military footprint in Greenland significantly without changing sovereignty, raising questions about why formal acquisition is being pursued.
Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But the agreement allows it to “construct, install, maintain, and operate” military bases across Greenland, “house personnel” and “control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.”
It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs.
“The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen.
“I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.”
However, it should be noted that a great many European nations seem unwilling and/or unable to defend their own countries. And, as an added bonus, their leaders arrogantly take shots at our nation while demanding we act as their protection.
Making Greenland our own would help put diplomatic distance between us and the progressive and destructive leadership of the European Union.
Ursula von der Leyen Panics and declares that Greenland belongs to Denmark and NATO, Not America — President Trump just dragged the Arctic's raw power game out into the open
This isn’t about the people of Greenland, It's a literal choke point for the next era of Arctic shipping… pic.twitter.com/B7dbxR1bNA
— Major Anthony Jones (@majorbrainpain) January 15, 2026
It will be interesting to see if this “working group” actually works.
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“Whether this is reality, a negotiating tactic, or a diversion to refocus attention from other matters remains to be seen.“
See: “The Art of the Deal”.
Trump’s starting position is always absurd, ridiculous and completely unacceptable. The press contorts this position further painting a picture of a fascist king dictator greedily rubbing his hand together at the prospect of taking over the world (“Bwah ha ha ha ha!”) and the idiot left laps it all up as gospel.
All the while, Trump has in mind an endpoint that’s perfectly agreeable to all concerned. With some meetings, negotiations, maybe a well done steak & a couple of Diet Cokes we’ll own Greenland, the Dutch will be happy and the natives will all be stupid rich.
Understanding Trump isn’t rocket science. You don’t have to agree with him or even like him but it’s not good for your mental health to allow yourself to be consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
We need to occupy Greenland, rename it Trumpland, and build a big beautiful hotel and resort there with a first class golf course.
It’s clear that at some point in the next 20 years Europeans will be the minorities in many of those countries.
Muslims are just outbreeding them by 4-1 margin.
Why does Demark own Greenland? How soon before it becomes a Muslim state too?
Perhaps the EU President would be wiser to apply that same advice to herself, her comments and the EU as an institution. The EU and NATO are not the same despite overlapping membership. Until the member States of the EU resign their UN seats, close their embassies and confer their full sovereignty to the EU then the EU President should keep quiet about matters and organizations outside the purview of the EU. Unless of course she wishes for other Nations to presume the EU rhetoric humans they’ve already done so and withdraw diplomatic recognition of the separate EU Nations in favor a single recognition of the EU as a separate sovereign.
In the tweet by Myriam F. that you included above, it would appear that she (?) learned to spell “Greeland ” at the Quality Learing Center.
BTW—that tweet is accepting only replies from approved members.
LOL. The EU is sending troops to Greenland to ward off Trump.
And asking that Trump send troops to help Ukraine. Clown world of the insane leftists.
and the eu is making a show of force for their shhep by sending in “help”
djt should threaten to send in the girl scouts to counter them
Girl girl scouts or pretend girlieboy scouts?
Surrender Monkeys in Greenland. Here is an opportunity to import a new, only dropped once French rifle! Pity US laws prohibit importation. I guess Denmark forgot that 5 year era of German as a first language. Frankly, NATO has been used inappropriately and now is more of a hazard.
Unoccupied land isn’t sovereign unless you can take it back and occupy it.
Someone needs to tell the Eurotrash that Greenland does not belong to NATO.