President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday night during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. needed to take control of Greenland “very badly” for national security.
Trump made the remarks after he has reignited the issue in recent weeks.
When asked by a reporter how much it would cost for the U.S. to purchase Greenland from Denmark, Trump said, “Well, maybe no price tag.”
“Look, we’re gonna have to see what happens, because Denmark, we need this for national security,” Trump said. “We need Greenland very badly. You look at the Russian ships, the Chinese ships, they’re all over the place. They’re surrounding. Now they have for a long time, that’s a lane, but we need that for national security.”
“So I don’t know that Denmark has any right, title, and interest, and we’re going to find that out,” he continued.
Trump said that Denmark understandably…
