Overview
- Hours before the meeting, President Trump said NATO should help put Greenland in U.S. hands for national security and warned that anything less is unacceptable, citing his proposed Golden Dome missile defense system.
- Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are meeting Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House to try to de‑escalate the dispute.
- Trump dismissed Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s pledge to remain with Denmark, calling it “a big problem for him,” after Nielsen said Greenland chooses Denmark, NATO and the EU.
- European reactions intensified, with France’s foreign minister condemning U.S. “blackmail” and announcing a consulate opening in Greenland next month, as Denmark reiterated it is strengthening its Arctic defense footprint.
- Bipartisan U.S. senators introduced a bill to bar Defense and State Department funds from being used to annex Greenland or any NATO ally’s territory without that ally’s consent or North Atlantic Council approval.