Lundi 28 Avril 2025
President Donald Trump's longtime goal of claiming Greenland for America has shifted from rhetoric to official U.S. policy as the White House moves forward on a formal plan to acquire the Arctic island from Denmark.
The plan mobilizes several Cabinet departments behind Trump's years of talk about wanting Greenland, whose economic and strategic value has grown as increasing temperatures melt Arctic ice.
Greenland's size --836, 330 squire miles-- also offers Trump, a former New York developer, the chance to clinch what he may see as one of history's greatest real estate deals.
Danish officials angrily insist that the sparsely populated island is not for sale and cannot be annexed. But Trump has made clear his determination to control it.
"We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we're working with everybody involved to try and get it, " he said in an address to Congress last month.
"One way or the other, we're going to get it, " Trump added.
The Whit House's National Security Council has met several times to put Trump's words into action, and recently sent specific instructions to multiple arms of the government, according to to a U.S. official.
The plan's full details are unclear. But despite Trump's allusions to the possible use of force, the deliberations led by the security council never seriously considered military options, the official said.
The policy instead emphasized persuasion over coercion, and features a public relations effort aimed at convincing Greenland's population of 57, 000 that they should ask to join the United States.
It may be an uphill battle. In an election last month, an opposition political party that favors quick independence and closer ties with the United States finished in second place but with just a quarter of the vote.
The U.S. messaging campaign will include an unlikely appeal to Greenlanders' shared heritage with the native Inuit people of Alaska, nearly 2,500 miles away, the official said.
Trump's advisers have begun making their public case, arguing that Denmark has been a poor custodian of the island, that only the United States can protect it from encroachment by Russia and China, and that America will help Greenlanders "get rich, " as Trump has put it.
The Trump administration is also studying financial incentives for Greenlanders, including the possibility of replacing the $600 million in subsidies that Denmark gives the island with an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander.(Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman）
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