Jeff Landry says US president is serious about acquiring the territory as US politicians make show of solidarity with Denmark
Jeff Landry says US president is serious about acquiring the territory as US politicians make show of solidarity with Denmark
Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland has said a deal for Washington to take over the island “should and will be made” as a US congressional delegation visited Copenhagen in a show of support.
Governor Jeff Landry said he planned to visit Greenland in March and said the US president “is serious” about acquiring the largely autonomous territory, which is part of the Danish kingdom.
His comments came as a bipartisan group of 11 members of the House and Senate – including the Republican senators Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski and the Democrat senator Chris Coons – travelled to the capital of Denmark to meet the Danish and Greenlandic leaders, Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, in a show of solidarity against Trump’s threats of military intervention.
“I do believe that there’s a deal that should and will be made once this plays out,” Landry told Fox News on Friday.
He added: “The president is serious. I think he’s laid the markers down. He’s told Denmark what he’s looking for, and now it’s a matter of having secretary [of state, Marco] Rubio and vice-president JD Vance make a deal.
