Trump Greenland takeover would end NATO, Denmark asserts

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen connected Monday warned astir the implications of President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, saying it could beryllium the extremity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 successful an interrogation that Trump’s threats astir Greenland should beryllium taken seriously.

"But I besides privation to marque it wide that if the U.S. chooses to onslaught different NATO state militarily, past everything stops. Including our NATO and frankincense the information that has been provided since the extremity of the Second World War," she said according to the outlet.

President Donald Trump told reporters connected Air Force One implicit the play that the U.S. needs Greenland, a Danish territory, for "national security."

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks during a property league pursuing the presumption of the programme of the Danish Presidency during a plenary league astatine the European Parliament successful Strasbourg, France, connected July 8, 2025. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images)

European and Nordic leaders pushed backmost against the comments, with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and Denmark’s ambassador to the United States, Jesper Møller Sørensen, underscoring their enactment for Denmark’s sovereignty implicit Greenland and stressing that its aboriginal indispensable beryllium determined by Greenland and Denmark alone.

White House lawman main of unit for argumentation Stephen Miller doubled down connected Trump’s remarks, telling CNN successful an interrogation connected Monday that Greenland "should beryllium portion of the United States."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Miller astir whether the Trump medication could regularisation retired subject enactment against the Arctic island.

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Ice covers the h2o successful the harbor successful Ilulissat, Greenland, connected March 8, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty)

"Greenland has a colonisation of 30,000 people," Miller said. "The existent question is by what close does Denmark asseverate power implicit Greenland. What is the ground of their territorial claim? What is their ground of having Greenland arsenic a colony of Denmark?"

"The United States is the powerfulness of NATO. For the United States to unafraid the Arctic region, to support and support NATO and NATO interests, evidently Greenland should beryllium portion of the United States," helium added.

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said successful a Monday connection posted connected Facebook that his state is "not an entity of superpower rhetoric."

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stands adjacent to Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a sojourn to the Danish Parliament successful Copenhagen connected April 28, 2025. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

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"We are a people. A land. And democracy. This has to beryllium respected. Especially by adjacent and loyal friends," Nielsen wrote successful part.

"Threats, unit and speech of annexation bash not beryllium anyplace betwixt friends," helium added. "That’s not however you speech to a radical who person repeatedly shown responsibility, stableness and loyalty. This is enough."