‘Who Gives a S— Who Owns Greenland?’

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• Lindsey Graham has a clear, dismissive message to Europeans worried about Donald Trump’s plans to take over Greenland

• “Who cares who owns Greenland? I don’t care,” the South Carolina senator said at POLITICO’s 2026 Munich Security Conference.

• Graham’s message comes amid Trump’s quest for full “ownership” of Greenland, which has strained US relations with NATO allies

You. Lindsey Graham Allayed concerns about the President Donald Trump‘s The quest for full “ownership” of Greenlandincluding threats of extortion.

Graham’s clear message arrived POLITICALAt the 2026 Munich Security Conference on Friday, February 13, journalist Jonathan Martin asked the 70-year-old South Carolina Republican if he had a message for Europeans who are “clearly nervous” about Trump’s controversial plans for NATO territory.

Trump ally Graham first joked about Martin’s question. “Well, if you’re nervous, have a beer,” he said. “Go see a doctor. Stop being nervous.”

Graham later downplayed the president’s offer to seize territory that was part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Emphasized US relations with Denmark and other NATO allies.

Sharing his main message “to my European friends”, Graham said: “Greenland is behind us, but the goal is to get results.”

“Who cares who owns Greenland? I don’t care,” the senator continued. “So Greenland is going to be leveraged even more because once Donald Trump feels like it’s his brand or it’s been bought, it’s going to be a big hit.”

“I think we’re in good shape,” Graham said when asked about Denmark’s relationship with the United States amid Trump’s loud plans to seize control of Greenland.

“I think everyone embraces it and, you know, we’ll live to fight another day,” he added.

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Trump before Linked to his loss of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize In a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, he expressed his desire to gain control of Greenland.

In his January letter to Støre, Trump called on the politician to give the United States “Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” even though Støre was not responsible for Trump’s Nobel loss and did not control Greenland’s fate.

“I have done more for NATO than anyone else since its founding, and now NATO must do something for the United States,” Trump wrote in his letter.

Later, in a Truth Social post published the same day, he doubled down on his Greenland plans, writing: “NATO has been telling Denmark for 20 years that you ‘must remove the Russian threat from Greenland’. Unfortunately Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. It’s time and it will be done!!! President Donald J. Trump.”

In an interview in January New York TimesTrump said his desire to own Greenland was “psychologically important” to him.

Still, reporters questioned why he didn’t send more American troops to Greenland if that was his goal. previously mentionedTo fend off external threats from China and Russia.

After Trump told the press that owning NATO territory was “what I think is psychologically necessary for success.” Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers — The person Trump recently called “ugly inside and out” Because she was writing a story about her age, he asked her to explain the question: “Is it psychologically important to you or to the United States?”

“It’s psychologically important to me,” Trump replied to Rogers. “Maybe another president would think differently, but so far I’ve been right on everything.”

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