Why Donald Trump really wants Greenland

为什么唐纳德·特朗普真的想要格陵兰岛

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2026-01-20

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Tom Burgis on Donald Trump’s friend Ronald Lauder, a billionaire with business interests in Greenland. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian Today, why Donald Trump really wants Greenland?

  • Even by Trump's standards,

  • the letter he fired off to the Norwegian Prime Minister over the weekend was something else.

  • Right, so here's the letter from President Trump to the Prime Minister of Norway, dear Jonas.

  • Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize

  • for having stopped eight wars plus,

  • be it all caps plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.

  • Never mind that the Norwegian government doesn't actually award the peace prize,

  • and let's not get into those eight wars.

  • Trump was on a roll.

  • And he had another bone to pick with the Norwegians,

  • who had joined the chorus of European countries opposing his ambitions to take over Greenland.

  • Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China.

  • I think it means Greenland.

  • And why do they have a, quote, right of ownership?

  • Anyway, there are no written documents.

  • It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago.

  • But we had boats landing there also.

  • For Tom Burgess, an investigation's correspondent to The Guardian,

  • This missive fits the Trump playbook perfectly.