{"id":194489,"date":"2025-12-22T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-appoints-greenland-special-envoy-denmark-summons-us-ambassador-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:52:23","slug":"trump-appoints-greenland-special-envoy-denmark-summons-us-ambassador-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-appoints-greenland-special-envoy-denmark-summons-us-ambassador-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appoints Greenland special envoy. Denmark summons US ambassador – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump<\/a> appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry<\/a> the United States’ special envoy to Greenland.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a statement Dec. 22 that Landry’s appointment showed that the White House’s interest in the Arctic island<\/a>, which is rich in natural resources and strategically located, had not gone away. Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States, has repeatedly said Greenland is not for sale.
“We insist that everyone including the U.S. \u2212 must show respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark,\u201d Rasmussen said. A day earlier, Trump wrote in a post on his social media website Truth Social that “Jeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country\u2019s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World.”
Greenland is controlled by Denmark, though the territory has its own local government. Greenland prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, in a separate statement, said the island would decide its own future.
Tensions between Copenhagen and Washington have soured amid Trump’s stated interest in taking control of Greenland. Earlier in December, Denmark’s intelligence services<\/a> for the first time described the United States as a potential threat to its national security because of the Trump administration’s apparent willingness to use economic and military coercion and pressure “to enforce its will,” even against allies.
Landry has been Louisiana’s governor since January 2024. His term ends in 2028. “It\u2019s an honor to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland part of the U.S.,” Landry wrote<\/a> posted on X in which he thanked Trump for the role.
“This in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!\u201d he added.
Landry is a former police officer and was Louisiana’s attorney general before being elected governor. Greenland<\/a> is around three times the size of Texas, with a population of about 57,000 people.
Greenland’s economy relies heavily on fishing and subsidies from Denmark. Greenland sits along the shortest route between Europe and North America, a key location for a U.S. ballistic missile defense system<\/a>.
Trump also recently named Thomas Dans head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Dans is an investor, an expert in Russia and a MAGA political strategist who helped arrange a visit to Greenland for Donald Trump Jr.<\/a>, Vice President JD Vance and Vance’s wife, Usha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry the United States’ special envoy to Greenland.Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a statement Dec. 22 that Landry’s appointment showed that the White House’s interest in the Arctic island, which is rich in natural resources and strategically located, had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}