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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5afc1904b2c467129731394d17ea9fdd wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong>The Trump administration is mulling offering six-figure bribes to Greenland residents to sway the Scandinavian islanders to abandon Denmark and join the US</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10238912d8b2636fe276839b7611d28a wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong>Donald Trump, according to media reports, is considering sending money directly to Greenlanders as part of his plotted landgrab of the mineral-rich Arctic island </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7b32ee431fd6ce5beb538cc1e8df2c39 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong>The reports say White House officials are discussing a range of options between $10,000 and $100,000 per person to bribe them to let the US take control, people familiar with the matter told Reuters </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9fd9ca2584a0cc93ba11bd7f732955a3 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong>Greenland is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, with a population of 57,000, US could pay up to $5.7 billion in bribe money, if the story is true and the offer is accepted </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-efce2ea9ae7a46b44a01637dd6c9a461 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong>&#8216;Enough is enough&#8230; No more fantasies about annexation,&#8217; Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen . . &#8230;. &#8216;We are not for sale and will never be for sale&#8217;</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c7f116935d1169894c55d979b3dac5be wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#210505;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>A January 2025 poll shows that 85 percent of the Danish territory do not want to become part of the US. Just 6 percent were in favor and 9 percent were undecided</strong> </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Nuuk, [photo], is the largest city in mineral rich Greenland, an <strong>Arctic island that is part of Finland.</strong> President Donald Trump reportedly, is considering sending money directly to Greenlanders as part of his plotted landgrab of the Arctic island. However, Americans are not keen on military action or regime change in Greenland, and European leaders dissociate condemn move</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sounding more like the message is &#8216;Get Finland or bust&#8217; the Trump administration is considering cash payments to sway Greenlanders to join US. Donald Trump is apparently considering sending money directly to Greenlanders as part of his plotted landgrab of the Arctic island.<br>White House officials are discussing a range of options between $10,000 and $100,000 per person to bribe them to let the US take control,<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-administration-mulls-payments-sway-greenlanders-join-us-2026-01-08/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Reuters</a> reports.<br>Greenland is a mineral-rich Arctic island, a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, with a population put at 57,000 people. This means that on the higher end the US could end up paying Greenland residents $5.7 billion should the bribe be accepted.<br>It&#8217;s not clear how the logistics of the payments would work and the legal challenges to the use of bribery as an acquisition strategy for the administration, could prove to be a nightmare in congress.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>President Donald Trump says that the US needs Greenland for the sake of national security. Some sources say he is considering &#8216;buying&#8217; the political affiliation of the local population to join US</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The proposal, however, does provide at least one explanation of how the US might move forward with trying to &#8216;buy&#8217; the island after Denmark has expressed it has no interest in letting go of its Arctic territory.<br>And Greenland leadership has definitively rejected any US purchase proposal. <br>&#8216;Enough is enough&#8230; No more fantasies about annexation,&#8217; Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen wrote in a social media post on Sunday after Trump reupped the proposal this weekend.<br>Nielsen, on multiple occasions has stated: &#8216;We are not for sale and will never be for sale.&#8217; </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>&#8216;Enough is enough&#8230; No more fantasies about annexation,&#8217; Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, [photo], posted on social media this week</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Trump&#8217;s resurgence of interest in the island came after the US capture and extradition of now-ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. <br>The president had previously floated acquiring Greenland even before taking office for his second term, noting the strategic location and the ability for the US to provide more deterrence in the region against Russia and China. <br>&#8216;We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark isn&#8217;t going to be able to do it,&#8217; Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.<br>He insisted: &#8216;It&#8217;s so strategic.&#8217;<br>Even if Trump did try to bribe Greenlanders with lump sum payments, it doesn&#8217;t appear he would be successful in swaying them.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>&#8216;Not for sale.&#8217; A January 2025 poll shows that 85 percent of the Danish territory do not want to become part of the US. Just 6 percent were in favor and 9 percent were undecided</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A poll conducted by Verian and commissioned by Danish newspapers in January 2025 – when Trump was going hard on his rhetoric of buying Greenland – showed that 85 percent of Greenlanders do not want to become part of the US.<br>Only 6 percent were in favor and 9 percent were undecided.<br>Regarding the prospect of the administration sending money directly to Greenlanders, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing said the Trump&#8217;s team was &#8216;looking at what a potential purchase would look like.&#8217;<br>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that he plans to meet with his Danish counterpart in Washington next week to discuss the issue of Greenland.</p>



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Trump allegedly, plots six-figure bribes to Greenland residents to sway their opinion on becoming part of US, as Denmark’s PM counters ‘Enough is enough… No more fantasies about annexation’
