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Greenland Leader Slaps Down Trump: ‘We Are Not for Sale’

Greenlanders do not want to be Americans, Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede repeated.

Greenland’s prime minister has hit back after President Donald Trump declared that he would seize the country “one way or another” in his joint address to Congress. Múte Bourup Egede, the head of the semiautonomous island that is part of Denmark, insisted the country will decide its own future. Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans, or Danes either. We are Greenlanders. The Americans and their leader must understand that,” Egede wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “We are not for sale and can’t just be taken. Our future is decided by us in Greenland,” he added. The Arctic island is home to a large U.S. Space Force base and is abundant in natural resources. Trump has refused to rule out using military force to seize control of the territory and says the U.S. needs it for “national security and even international security.”

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