Greenland isn’t actually that inexperienced anyway.
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), 67, unveiled new laws Monday to empower President Trump to enter negotiations to “buy or in any other case purchase” Greenland and to rename the icy island “Purple, White and Blueland.”
“America is again and can quickly be larger than ever with the addition of Purple, White, and Blueland,” Carter mentioned in an announcement to The Submit.
“President Trump has appropriately recognized the acquisition of what’s now Greenland as a nationwide safety precedence, and we are going to proudly welcome its individuals to affix the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”
The Purple, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 directs the secretary of the inside crew to make sure federal paperwork will get up to date to the brand new title and offers a six-month deadline to finish that job.
Trump, 78, has lengthy set his sights on buying Greenland, a territory owned by the Kingdom of Denmark, which insists the island shouldn’t be on the market.
The president renewed his aspirations of buying Greenland after profitable the 2024 election and has not dominated out the usage of navy drive to realize that aim.
Regardless of its title, Greenland is usually icy whereas its fellow Arctic island, Iceland, is the greener of the 2.
Greenland, which has a inhabitants of about 57,000, has been dominated by Denmark for the reason that nineteenth century. Scandinavian settlers are believed to have initially given it the title in hopes of inspiring extra individuals to maneuver there.
Trump has argued that getting Greenland is paramount to the nationwide safety pursuits of the US on account of its huge pure sources and entry to the Arctic Ocean, which geopolitical specialists consider will develop into extra invaluable over time because it melts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the president’s aim of taking Greenland by highlighting US navy assist for the island territory and a 1951 treaty to defend it within the occasion of an assault.
“If we’re already on the hook for having to try this, then we’d as properly have extra management over what occurs there,” Rubio mentioned throughout an interview on the “Megyn Kelly Present.”
“This isn’t a joke,” he added. “This isn’t about buying land for the aim of buying land. That is in our nationwide curiosity and it must be solved.”
Vice President JD Vance has criticized Denmark and prompt it’s not pulling sufficient of its personal weight on nationwide safety points.
“I feel it’s attainable,” Vance informed Fox Information’ “Sunday Morning Futures” earlier this month when pressed whether or not the US will purchase Greenland.
“It’s actually vital to our nationwide safety. There are sea lanes there that the Chinese language use, that the Russians use,” the veep went on. “Frankly, Denmark, which controls Greenland, [is] not doing its job, and it’s not being a superb ally.”
Earlier than being sworn again into workplace for his second time period, the president tapped his son, Donald Trump Jr. to move over to Greenland on a diplomatic mission the place he lower a video of locals sporting MAGA hats.
Along with his actual property instincts, Trump has additionally eyed Canada, the Panama Canal and the war-ravaged Gaza Strip as attainable choices for the US to develop its territory.
