Greenland's future

Trump: Has absolutely talked about annexing Greenland

Donald Trump has "absolutely" had real conversations about annexing Greenland, he says in a telephone interview with NBC News. He adds that the US will take or get Greenland with a 100 percent probability.

- There is a good chance that we can do it without a military intervention, but I will not rule anything out, says Trump.

NBC then asks what message an annexation would send to Russia. The president replies that it is not something he cares about because American control, according to Trump, is important for "world peace" and security in that part of the world.

In the interview, Trump also says that he has full confidence in his ministers after the chat leak and that he "could not care less" if the tariffs cause international car manufacturers to raise their prices.

Analysis: Frederiksen has heard the distress signal from Greenland

Greenland has felt quite alone for some time when the US has threatened the island, writes Claus Blok Thomsen in an analysis in the Danish newspaper Politiken.

"Frederiksen's decision to travel to Greenland can be interpreted as a sign that she has understood this distress signal."

Nevertheless, the timing is expected, he continues. The visit is scheduled for this week. If it had happened earlier, Frederiksen would likely have been accused of "indirectly interfering in the Greenlandic election campaign" that ended with the election on March 11.

Danmarks Radio's political commentator Jens Ringberg sees the visit as a "powerful signal" to both the US and the Greenlanders that the governments of Denmark and Greenland are united.

In an analysis in Berlingske, Solveig Gram Jensen writes that other European leaders are behaving “like a series of ostriches with their heads buried deep in the sand.” No one wants to criticize Trump’s threats and thus risk becoming his new punching bag, she writes.

“The bitterest realization is that none of Europe’s leaders can in practice prevent the US from taking Greenland by force, if it were to go that far.”

Bolton: Unlikely that the US would invade Greenland

Donald Trump will not intervene militarily to take over Greenland, the US president’s former national security adviser John Bolton tells Danmarks Radio.

Bolton believes that it is unlikely that the US would attack a NATO country, and that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats in Congress want to see military force against the self-determining Danish island.

– There is simply no sympathy for it, and I think Trump is slowly realizing that.

Bolton was national security adviser during Trump's first term but was fired in 2019. In recent years, he has strongly criticized Trump.