A new poll finds that seven out of 10 American adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Greenland crisis.
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The Danish and Greenlandic prime ministers met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and agreed to discuss the management of Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has threatened to confiscate.
Rubio spoke for 15 minutes on Friday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jensfrederik Nielsen.
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Greenlandic leader Nielsen said in a social media post that his meeting with Rubio “underscored that the dialogue taking place is the right direction to move forward and reaffirmed Greenland’s interests.”
After the meeting, Prime Minister Frederiksen told the X news agency, “I had a constructive meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Chairman of the Swiss Nahlacker Committee, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, at the Munich Security Conference.”
“Work will continue as agreed by the high-level working group,” he said.
The meeting between the Danish and Greenlandic leaders and the US Secretary of State comes at a time when relations between Europe and the US and NATO allies are under extreme strain, with President Trump repeatedly threatening to take over Greenland and criticizing European countries as “declining” and “weak”.
On Friday, President Trump told reporters: “We are currently negotiating on Greenland.”
“I think Greenland would want us, but we get along very well with Europe. We’ll see how everything goes,” he said.
After months of belligerent rhetoric about the need for the United States to acquire Greenland, President Trump abruptly reversed his threats last month, saying he had reached an agreement with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to expand U.S. influence in the mineral-rich Arctic region.
Late last month, the United States, Denmark and Greenland also began talks to find a diplomatic path out of the crisis.
Opinion poll finds most US adults disapprove of President Trump’s Greenland plan
The US administration has cited significant national security concerns related to Russia and China to justify its demand for control of Greenland, and has accused Denmark, and Europe more broadly, of failing to defend its strategic territory.
But a new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that President Trump’s efforts to seize control of Greenland are unpopular with the American public and members of his own party.
The poll, conducted from February 5th to 8th, found that about 7 in 10 American adults disapproved of President Trump’s handling of the Greenland crisis, a higher disapproval rate than the proportion of people who disapproved of President Trump’s handling of foreign policy in general.
Polls show that about half of Republicans do not support his efforts to make Greenland a U.S. territory.
Sweden announced Thursday it would send fighter jets to patrol Greenland as part of a newly launched NATO mission in the Arctic aimed at allaying President Donald Trump’s concerns about threats from Russia and China.
The government said in a statement that Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets will patrol Greenland as part of the newly launched NATO mission, Arctic Sentry.
“As a NATO ally, Sweden has a responsibility to contribute to the security of the entire alliance territory. The Arctic region is becoming increasingly important from a strategic point of view,” said Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
The Swedish military said in a separate statement that the jets will be based in Iceland. Six aircraft have been stationed in Iceland since early February as part of the NATO Air Guard, a rotating contingency response force.
Swedish special forces will also be sent to Greenland to take part in several weeks of training, the military said.
