Trump's Greenland gambit finds allies inside government
Donald Trump’s left-field idea to buy Greenland has been mocked by everyone from cable pundits to Danish pols — but it’s also given an internal boost to a small network of advocates in and outside the administration who have struggled to get traction for their ideas for boosting America’s ties to the frozen island territory.
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Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a defense hawk and a close ally of the White House, recently said that he had spoken with the president about the idea of purchasing Greenland, and even met with the Danish ambassador to Washington to discuss the issue.
Trump may have been intrigued by the prospect for months, but he hasn’t initiated the normal policy process that necessarily would have involved the State Department, officials there say. Most of Foggy Bottom was surprised to learn that the president had been discussing the idea when the news was first published in The Wall Street Journal.
The president also doesn’t seem to be trying too hard to win Danish political or public support for such a purchase. He canceled a visit to Denmark because the government refused to consider his idea, and on Wednesday, he accused Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of disrespecting the U.S. with a “nasty” and “inappropriate statement” opposing his bid to purchase Greenland, which Frederiksen had said was “absurd.”
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