All Eyes on Greenland After Venezuela

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Big Take

2026-01-09

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Within days of the US raid on Venezuela, President Donald Trump and his administration turned their attention to Greenland, renewing European fears that the US would try to take territory belonging to its longtime NATO ally, Denmark. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Sanne Wass in Denmark and Joe Deaux, who covers Greenland, join host Sarah Holder to discuss what days of escalating rhetoric around the strategically located Arctic island could mean for Denmark, Russia and the future of NATO.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio, news.

  • We start getting emails.

  • We start hearing things that the president has started making comments about Greenland.

  • President Donald Trump has wanted to gain control of Greenland for years.

  • And after the raid on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday,

  • Trump started talking about the idea again.

  • We need Greenland for the standpoint of national security.

  • And Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you.

  • Other figures in Trump's orbit started talking about Greenland too.

  • Stephen Miller, who works in the White House, his wife, Katie Miller,

  • tweeted out a picture of Greenland with an American flag draped all over it,

  • which stirred up a lot of controversy.

  • And then Stephen Miller himself came on later,

  • I believe is on CNN with one of the reporters, Jake Tapper.

  • So I know you're treating this as breaking news.

  • The president has been clear for a month now.

  • that the United States should be the nation that has Greenland as part of our overall security apparatus.

  • Some Trump administration officials have

  • since tried to walk back some of the most aggressive rhetoric.

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers the goal is to buy Greenland from Denmark.