{"id":197057,"date":"2026-01-16T04:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/most-americans-do-not-want-us-to-acquire-greenland-polling-says-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:02:44","slug":"most-americans-do-not-want-us-to-acquire-greenland-polling-says-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/most-americans-do-not-want-us-to-acquire-greenland-polling-says-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans do not want US to acquire Greenland, polling says – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

A series of back-to-back polls shows many Americans are not keen on President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s threats to take over the Danish territory of Greenland.<\/a>
One in five Americans support Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland, according to a Jan. 14 Reuters poll. A survey released the following day found a similarly strong level of disapproval. In a CNN poll published Jan. 15, three-quarters of Americans said they opposed the United States attempting to take control of the Arctic island.
Other surveys this week had similar outcomes, as Trump continues to call for U.S. control of Greenland for what he says are national security concerns.
Reuters’ two-day poll found some 47% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s focus on Greenland, and 17% approved. Another 35% said they were unsure.
Approximately 71% of respondents to the Reuters poll<\/a> said it would be a bad idea for the United States to take possession of Greenland from Denmark, including nine in 10 Democrats and six in 10 Republicans. Only 4%, including one in 10 Republicans and almost no Democrats, said it would be a “good idea” for the United States to use military force.
The poll was conducted online among 1,217 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of\u00a0\u00b13 percentage points.
In the CNN poll<\/a>, 25% of Americans said they favored the United States attempting to take control of the resource-rich Danish territory. Broken down along party lines, Democrats were deeply opposed to the move, and 94% were opposed overall, including 80% who said they “strongly” opposed it.
Opinions were more mixed among Republicans, although still not significantly in favor: 50% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they supported it and 50% opposed it. About 8 in 10 independents who don\u2019t lean toward either party are also opposed to an intervention.
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS online and by phone Jan. 9 through 12 among a random national sample of 1,209 adults. It has a margin of error of \u00b13.1 percentage points.
Vice President JD Vance<\/a> and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the Danish and\u00a0Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House on Jan. 14, and the gathering ended without substantial steps forward.<\/a> Danish Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said in a press conference the meeting ended with a “fundamental disagreement” with U.S. officials, and that they “didn\u2019t manage to change the American position.”
The Danish government\u00a0announced an<\/a>\u00a0expanded military presence in and around Greenland on Jan. 14 in close cooperation with NATO nations. Rasmussen said at the news conference that the country was prepared to go further in the face of potential U.S. action.
Greenland’s prime minister said his nation\u00a0“stands with” Denmark, dismissing the idea that the island would choose to join the United States.
The two polls come in the same week as other national pollsters recorded a lack of appetite among Americans for the president’s recent foreign policy decisions.
More than half of U.S. adults believe Trump has \u201cgone too far\u201d in using the U.S. military<\/a> to intervene in other countries, according to a Jan. 14 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
In a Quinnipiac University poll released the same day, seven out of 10 U.S. voters said they thought a president should receive congressional approval<\/a> before taking military action against another country.
Contributing: Francesca Chambers and Zac Anderson, USA TODAY.<\/em>
Kathryn Palmer is a politics reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at<\/em>kapalmer@usatoday.com<\/em><\/a> and on X @<\/em>KathrynPlmr<\/em><\/a>. Sign up for her daily politics newsletter<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A series of back-to-back polls shows many Americans are not keen on President Donald Trump‘s threats to take over the Danish territory of Greenland.One in five Americans support Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland, according to a Jan. 14 Reuters poll. A survey released the following day found a similarly strong level of disapproval. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197058,"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-197057","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\/197057","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=197057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}