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No amount of money can buy Greenland, local lawmakers tell Trump

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2026年1月10日
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No amount of money can buy Greenland, local lawmakers tell Trump

There is no sum of money from Donald Trump that would persuade Greenlanders to join the US, two Greenlandic lawmakers in the Danish parliament said.

Any attempt by the US president to entice the Arctic island with cash is doomed to fail and only risks pushing Greenlanders further away, said Aaja Chemnitz, one of two Greenland representatives in the Danish legislature, where she chairs the committee focused on the territory’s affairs.

Trump administration officials have discussed sending direct payments to the island’s residents in an effort to lure them to break away from Denmark and join the US, Reuters reported.

The amounts under discussion ranged from US$10,000 to US$100,000 per person, according to the report.

“No amount of money can buy our national soul,” Chemnitz said in an interview in Copenhagen on Friday. “It’s disrespectful to think that you can buy a people. What use is a one-off payment when your entire foundation is being torn away?”

Children play in freshly fallen snow in Nuuk, Greenland, in March. Photo: AP

While independence from Denmark has long been debated in the land of 57,000 people, opinion polls have shown Greenlanders are overwhelmingly against the idea of joining the US.

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