It’s the same reason he wants to annex Canada.

Denmark open to dialogue with US on Arctic cooperation amid Trump's military intervention comments.

The president-elect said the United States needed the island, which is a semiautonomous part of Denmark, for national security reasons. But there are other possible interests.

In a press-conference, the President-elect said he would try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.”

The EU's two leading members were reacting to the US president-elect's plans to acquire Denmark's autonomous territory.

Jan. 7 (UPI) -- President-elect Donald Trump threatened the sovereignty of Panama, Greenland and Canada during a wide-ranging and often rambling press conference on Tuesday, prompting staunch opposition from the three U.S. allies.

President-elect Donald Trump’s attention returned Tuesday to an idea that has fascinated him for years: acquiring Greenland for the United States. In a news conference Tuesday, he refused to rule out using military or economic force to take the territory...

The Gulf of Mexico is often referred to as the United States’ “Third Coast” due to its coastline across five southeastern states. Mexicans use a Spanish version of the same name for the gulf: “El Golfo de México.”

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.” It's his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump has repeatedly referred to Canada…

Though the president-elect's rhetoric is unusual, for over a century a succession of US presidents have tried to gain control of Greenland.

Weeks before his inauguration, US President-elect Donald Trump stated his intention to make Canada the 51st state of the US, retake the Panama Canal, and acquire Greenland from Denmark. Do the 78-year-old's territorial ambitions reflect mere desires, or do they show strategic, economic, security, and geopolitical foresight in a changing global order?

Germany has joined France in warning Donald Trump against threatening the European Union's 'sovereign borders' after the president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland.

Trump has ramped up calls for the US to either purchase or stage a takeover of the 'strategically located' nation, which is an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark.

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He did not provide details on when or how he would make a possible change.

Greenland's government said Trump Jr.'s visit would take place 'as a private individual' and not as an official visit

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. should control the Panama Canal and Greenland, and has also expressed a desire to make Canada a state.

Donald Trump says that the U.S. having control over Greenland is imperative for U.S. national security and is not ruling out using military force to take it. Ivory Coast and Senegal have announced that France will withdraw from bases in their territories. Plus, Meta will stop fact-checking.

COPENHAGEN: Greenland may become independent if its residents want, but is unlikely to become a US state, Denmark's foreign minister said on Wednesday (Jan 8) after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out

PARIS: France and Germany on Wednesday (Jan 8) warned Donald Trump against threatening "sovereign borders" after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of European Union member Denmark. "There is no question of the EU letting other nations

Trump aired grievances against rivals, the Justice Department, and other nations in a winding and pugnacious press conference.

France warned Donald Trump against threatening the “sovereign borders” of the EU after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action.

The pronouncements came during a meandering press conference held a day after the US Congress certified Trump’s election victory.

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, wasted no time trolling President-elect Donald Trump, posting a vintage map showing that a large portion of what is now the United States of America used to be called “Mexican America.” President Sheinbaum delivered her remarks in response to Trump’s claim...

PARIS (Jan 8): France and Germany today warned Donald Trump against threatening “sovereign borders” after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of European Union member Denmark. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be… attack its sovereignRead More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said during a wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday he wanted to see the country’s debt limit addressed while cutting spending and would not rule out military force to expand U.S. territory. Trump, who will take office Jan. 20 after lawm...

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago was a reminder of what the next four years may have in store.

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump refused to say he would not use military force to gain control of Greenland.

France warned Wednesday that Europeans would not let the U.S. invade Greenland.

US President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using military or economic power to get Denmark to hand over the mineral-rich and strategically important island.

PARIS (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is advising the world “not to waste a lot of time” on what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying about Greenland. Trump made clear again this week that he’d like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to come under U.S. control and said he would not […]

Wild military conquest or something else? Why Donald Trump wants to acquire Greenland

PARIS (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is advising the world “not to waste a lot of time” on what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying about Greenland. Trump made clear again this week that he’d like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to come under U.S. control and said he would not […]

The "Gulf of Mexico" name is internationally recognized, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday in response to US President-elect Donald Trump's comments about renaming the body of water.

“I think we can all do ourselves a favor and turn down the pulse a little bit,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Denmark's is open to talks with the United States to safeguard US interests in the Arctic, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to take Greenland, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded sarcastically to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Trump is once again being true to his America-First convictions.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), ignoring his home state’s aerospace and defense industries that manufacture military aircraft components and ships, is siding with President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal from Panama, by claiming America needs the canal to defend Taiw...

Greenland’s government described the visit as a private one. And Denmark said “Greenland is not for sale."

The President-elect floated the idea around at a news conference Tuesday.

I voted for Trump because I wanted us to militarily overtake the largely inhospitable Danish territory of Greenland and rename the Gulf of Mexico.