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United States President Donald Trump is reportedly willing to buy Greenland, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed to a group of lawmakers, adding that his advisers are preparing an updated plan to find a way to acquire the territory, according to US media.
Rubio made those statements during a briefing on Monday with congressmen from the main Armed Services and Foreign Policy committees, where the main focus was the situation in Venezuela, although several lawmakers also expressed their concern about the president's repeated comments about Greenland.
The Secretary of State did not detail to the senators how the proposal would work but said that the president's top advisers are working on an updated proposal to address the situation.
Greenland, a vast, sparsely populated territory administered by Denmark, has flatly rejected the idea of being part of the United States, and European leaders—including those from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom—backed Copenhagen by stating that the island "belongs to its people" and that only they and Denmark can decide its future.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any US attack against Greenland could mean the end of NATO, and both Danish and Greenlandic authorities have demanded respect for sovereignty and international law in the face of Trump's insinuations that the United States "needs" the territory for security reasons.
Since the beginning of his term in 2025, Trump has insisted on different occasions on the possibility of taking control of the island, and the controversy gained momentum this week after one of his top advisers, Stephen Miller, did not rule out the possibility of taking the territory by force during an interview.
Greenland has a population of about 57,000 inhabitants across 2.1 million square kilometers and relies on income from fishing and annual economic aid from Denmark, which covers nearly half of its budget.
[Publicidad]