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'Enough
is enough,' as Greenland and Denmark reactto Trump's comments
Trump’s
overnight comments on annexing Greenland – “I think this will happen” – sparked
fury on the island and in Denmark.
Outgoing
Greenlandic prime minister Múte B. Egede, who holds the fort waiting for the
new coalition to emerge, has said he “cannot accept this,” and called a meeting
of all party leaders to form a united front against Trump.
“This
time we must sharpen our rejection of Trump. We must not continue to be treated
with disrespect. Enough is enough,” he said.
His
likely successor, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has also rejected Donald Trump’s
effort to take control of the island, saying Greenlanders must be allowed to
decide their own future as it moves toward independence from Denmark.
Nielsen,
whose centre-right Democrats won a surprise victory in this week’s legislative
elections and now must form a coalition government, pushed back against Trump’s
repeated claims that the US will annex the island.
“We don’t
want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be
Greenlanders, and we want our own independence in the future,” Nielsen told Sky
News. “And we want to build our own country by ourselves.”
In a
separate comment on Facebook, he called Trump’s comments “inappropriate.”
Over in
Denmark, Jacob Kaarsbo, former chief analyst at the Danish Defence Intelligence
Agency, was quoted by Berlingske as telling TV2 News that Trump’s comments
“send chills down the spines of officials and politicians not just in Denmark,
but all Nato.”
Rasmus
Jarlov, chair of the Danish parliament’s defence committee, put it in even
starker terms as he also took aim at Nato secretary general Mark Rutte for not
reacting to Trump’s comments.
We do not
appreciate the Secr. Gen. of NATO joking with Trump about Greenland like this.
It would
mean war between two NATO countries. Greenland has just voted against immediate
independence from Denmark and does not want to be American ever.
In case
you wondered what was the response from the US, former Trump aide and
Republican political consultant Roger Stone replied to Jarlov with this
comment:
This is
your sick demented repugnant, and baseless opinion. The problem is that you are
no one and you don’t speak for the people of Greenland. Get over yourself no
one here cares what you think about anything. Asshole.
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