fb899 Donald Trump Jr Visits Greenland After Father Aspires To Buy The Island

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Donald Trump Jr has arrived in Greenland, two weeks after his father repeated his desire for the US to take control of the autonomous Danish territory, BBC reported.

Before his arrival in the capital Nuuk, the US president-elect's son said he was going as a tourist on a "very long, personal, day-trip", to talk to people, and had no meetings planned with government officials, reports said. The move comes after president-elect Donald Trump said that the US should buy the island. This is not the first time that Trump expressed the idea to buy Greeland. During his first term as president, he had expressed an interest in buying the Arctic island.

After the president-elect's statement, Mute Egede, Prime Minister of Greenland said that the island is not for sale. "We are not for sale and we will not be for sale," media reports quoted Egede.

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Reports also said that Trump said that Greenland and its people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation. "We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside world. Make Greenland great again,” Trump said on social media platform Truth Social.

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Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark with a population of just 57,000 and boasts mineral, oil and natural gas wealth. Its development has been slow, leaving its economy reliant on fishing and annual subsidies from Denmark. Fun fact, Nuuk, the capital city, is closer to New York than the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Trump is not the first US president who thought of buying Greenland. The idea was first mooted by the country's 17th president, Andrew Johnsonfb899, during the 1860s. Separately in recent weeks, Trump has threatened to reassert control over the Panama Canal, on which he has accused Panama of charging excessive fees for access to it. To this, Panama's president said that every square metre of the canal and surrounding area belonged to his country.