Overview
- Trump announced Landry’s selection on Sunday, citing Greenland’s strategic importance for U.S. national security.
- Landry said the envoy role is a volunteer position “to make Greenland a part of the U.S.” and that he will remain Louisiana governor.
- Denmark’s foreign minister called the move “completely unacceptable” and summoned Ambassador Ken Howery, while EU officials stressed the inviolability of Denmark and Greenland’s borders.
- Greenland’s Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen issued a joint statement asserting self-determination and declaring that Greenland “belongs to the Greenlanders.”
- Seeking to ease tensions, Landry later said on Fox News the U.S. is not trying to “take over” Greenland, as Trump reiterated the island is needed for security rather than minerals.