US Envoy: Greenland ‘Was Not on a Map’ Until Trump ‘Put It on a Map’
Landry said the United States largely ignored Greenland before Trump as he met the island’s prime minister and spent about 30 minutes at a trade fair.
- Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry visited Greenland this week, claiming the United States largely ignored the Arctic nation before President Donald Trump took office.
- In January, Trump named Landry as special envoy, seeking access to Greenland's mineral resources and indefinite U.S. troop basing on the island.
- During his uninvited trip, Landry faced awkward moments when one resident gestured offensively and children declined his offers of MAGA hats and baked goods.
- Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen met with Landry on Monday, emphasizing the country maintains firm "red lines" against annexation, takeover, or purchase threats.
- Although Landry stated he sought economic engagement, his visit struggled to improve relations between the Trump administration and the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
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US envoy: Greenland ‘was not on a map’ until Trump ‘put it on a map’
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) claimed that Greenland “was not on a map” until President Trump “put it on a map,” comments that follow rhetoric for months from the president to acquire the island. “What I’ve found, that Greenland was not on a map, until Donald Trump put it on a map,” Landry, who is…
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In Greenland visit, Gov. Jeff Landry says U.S. was ignoring the island before Trump
WASHINGTON – Gov. Jeff Landry stayed at the trade fair in Nuuk for about half an hour Tuesday and told reporters that, before President Donald Trump, nobody cared that much about Greenland, according to media reports.
The United States has sent a doctor to Greenland, who, according to his own statement, will assess the medical needs in the country.
"It is deeply problematic for people with the political mission of integrating Greenland into the US to send Nuuk to an alleged volunteer doctor to 'evaluate our needs'," said Health Minister Denmark, taking away a Greenlandic mother her newborn daughter after conducting the controversial "parental competence" test. The Government of Greenland has criticized the arrival in Nuuk of an American doctor along with Donald Trump's special envoy, Jeff …
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