Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has introduced a bill to rename Greenland as Donald Trump has suggested that the U.S. take control over the autonomous Danish territory.
Carter’s bill allows Trump to begin negotiations to “purchase or otherwise acquire” Greenland and rename it to ‘Red, White, and Blueland.’
“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland,” Carter said in a statement to The New York Post.
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” he added.
Since winning the November election, Trump has repeatedly said the US should take control of Greenland. He has suggested buying the island while also not ruling out using military force to take the Danish territory.
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have repeatedly said the island is “not for sale.”
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Egede said.
Furthermore, a poll commissioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenlandic daily Sermitsiaq, found that a whopping 85 per cent of Greenlanders do not want to become part of the US.
