Why Greenland Is Back on America’s Radar— and Trump’s Too

Back in 2019, then-President Donald J. Trump stunned the world with a proposal that many took for satire: the idea that the United States might purchase Greenland. The Danish government swiftly and bluntly rejected it. Greenland’s leaders were indignant. The global press had a field day, labeling it “imperial fantasy,” “real estate diplomacy,” or even “the art of the deal gone arctic.” But beneath the surface of sarcasm and memes, the proposal reflected something very real — a long-standing, deeply embedded American interest in Greenland that is resurfacing with renewed urgency in a new era of global rivalry and climate transformation.

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