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Donald Trump Says He Wants 'Ownership' of Greenland Because It's 'Psychologically Important for Me'
President Donald Trump said that taking full 'ownership' over Greenland, rather than just upping the United States' military presence there, is 'psychologically important' to him during a lengthy sit-
Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will.
While few details of the exact work at Pituffik have been made public, the improvements come during a time of intense focus on Greenland.
Talk of the U.S. seizing Greenland has intensified amid heightened rhetoric from Trump following a U.S. military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, and Trump's subsequent remarks that he would “run” the South American country.
The debate surrounding the United States, Greenland, and Denmark is often treated as a recent diplomatic anomaly, sparked by
Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro,
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers this week at the White House.