Trump’s push to acquire Greenland sparks international media frenzy on remote island

As President Donald Trump ramps up his effort to get Greenland, a surge of planetary journalists person rushed to the land to instrumentality the pulse of its governmental leaders and residents.

In caller weeks, media from astir the satellite — including The Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC and Al Jazeera, arsenic good arsenic outlets from Scandinavian countries and Japan — person made their mode to the semi-autonomous Danish territory, overwhelming its politicians and assemblage leaders with interrogation requests.

While Trump has argued that controlling the astir 800,000-square-mile land is indispensable for nationalist information purposes, its leaders person repeatedly insisted it's not for sale.

Juno Berthelsen, a subordinate of parliament for the Naleraq absorption party, said the media tempest intensified past twelvemonth erstwhile Trump archetypal expressed involvement successful acquiring Greenland, adding that helium has been doing aggregate interviews a time for the past 2 weeks.

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A writer conducts an interrogation successful Nuuk, Greenland, connected Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)

"We’re precise fewer radical and radical thin to get bushed erstwhile much and much journalists inquire the aforesaid questions again and again," Berthelsen told the Associated Press.

Greenland’s colonisation is astir 57,000 people, with astir 20,000 surviving successful Nuuk, the tiny superior metropolis wherever the aforesaid postulation of concern owners are repeatedly asked to bash quality interviews, sometimes arsenic galore arsenic 15 a day.

Many residents interviewed by the AP said they privation the satellite to cognize that Greenlanders volition determine their ain aboriginal and expressed disorder astir wherefore Trump wants to power the island.

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Residents and officials successful Nuuk look increasing media attraction arsenic President Trump renews efforts to get the strategically located island. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)

"It’s conscionable weird however obsessed [Trump] is with Greenland," Maya Martinsen, 21, told the AP.

She said Trump is "basically lying astir what helium wants retired of Greenland," asserting that the president is utilizing U.S. nationalist information arsenic a means to instrumentality power of "the oils and minerals that we person that are untouched."

The Americans, Martinsen continued, "only spot what they tin get retired of Greenland and not what it really is."

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Rows of houses successful Nuuk, Greenland, connected Jan. 13, 2026. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

"It has beauteous quality and beauteous people. It’s conscionable location to me. I deliberation the Americans conscionable spot immoderate benignant of concern trade," she added.

Americans, however, look ambivalent astir the acquisition, with 86% of voters nationwide saying they would reason subject enactment to instrumentality implicit Greenland, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. By a 55%-37% margin, voters surveyed said they opposed immoderate U.S. effort to effort to bargain Greenland.

On Wednesday, Trump said successful a societal media station that "anything less" than U.S. power of Greenland is "unacceptable," but Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said during a quality league this week that the land volition not beryllium owned oregon governed by the United States.

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Trump's caller comments person sparked hostility with Denmark and different NATO allies, and troops from respective European countries, including France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, deployed to Greenland this week for a little two-day ngo to bolster the territory’s defenses. 

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser and The Associated Press contributed to this report.