{"id":81209,"date":"2026-01-20T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81209"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:23:20","slug":"trump-greenland-push-with-u-s-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-greenland-push-with-u-s-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump renews Greenland push with \u201cU.S. Territory, Founded 2026\u201d image on Truth Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has reignited tensions with Denmark and Greenland after sharing an image on Truth Social that signals his renewed insistence that Greenland should become American territory. The visual shows Trump planting a U.S. flag near a sign reading \u201cGreenland, U.S. Territory, Founded 2026,\u201d suggesting that Greenland would become part of the United States in 2026 \u2014 and that he would be the one to deliver it.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cNational security\u201d argument and the \u201cGolden Dome\u201d reference<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The post came after Trump reiterated that the United States needs Greenland for \u201cnational security\u201d purposes, adding that it is \u201cvital\u201d for the construction of the \u201cGolden Dome.\u201d As the dispute continues to simmer, Trump\u2019s latest message has once again pushed the issue to the center of political debate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-81211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trump-greenland-793x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trump-greenland-793x500.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trump-greenland-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trump-greenland.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Vance and Rubio appear in the image<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The image also features U.S. Vice President James David Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio standing alongside Trump. All three are portrayed with determined expressions, reinforcing the message of resolve behind the post.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trump lashes out at the UK over Diego Garcia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a separate statement, <a title=\"Trump\u2019s direct call to Iranian protesters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trumps-direct-call-to-iranian-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> harshly criticized the United Kingdom, accusing it of planning to hand Diego Garcia \u2014 home to a strategically important U.S. military base \u2014 to Mauritius. Trump described the move as a sign of weakness, claimed China and Russia would notice it, and called it \u201ca great stupidity.\u201d He also framed the episode as another reason for what he described as a long list of \u201cnational security\u201d arguments for taking control of Greenland, urging Denmark and European allies to \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump texts with Norway PM Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re link Greenland to Nobel Prize | BBC News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45O_8uQU7zc\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has reignited tensions with Denmark and Greenland after sharing an image on Truth Social that signals his renewed insistence that Greenland should become American territory. The visual shows Trump planting a U.S. flag near a sign reading \u201cGreenland, U.S. Territory, Founded 2026,\u201d suggesting that Greenland would become part of the United &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[2063,80395,80392,36654,591,80394,77647,79994,1133,80393],"class_list":["post-81209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-america","tag-denmark","tag-diego-garcia","tag-greenland","tag-mauritius","tag-nato","tag-rubio","tag-trump","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81212,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81209\/revisions\/81212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}