Overview
- Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are hosting Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenlandic foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House for talks on U.S. intentions toward the island.
- President Donald Trump urged NATO to help the United States acquire Greenland, calling anything short of U.S. control “unacceptable” and framing the move as vital to the Golden Dome missile-defense project.
- Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish leaders rejected any transfer, stressing Greenland’s autonomy within the Danish realm and its alignment with NATO and the European Union.
- Denmark and Greenland announced a boost in Danish military activity with additional aircraft, ships and soldiers in and around the island, and Danish media reported an advance command element and a military flight into Nuuk.
- European officials, including Ursula von der Leyen, voiced strong support for Danish sovereignty, while U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill to bar Defense and State Department funds from being used to seize a NATO ally’s territory without consent or NATO authorization.