The attempt to find Trump Greenland provokes an increase in the international media on the island
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As President Donald Trump steps up his bid for Greenland, dozens of international journalists have rushed to the island to pick up its political leaders and citizens.
In recent weeks, media from around the world – including the Associated Press, Reuters, BBC and Al Jazeera, as well as outlets from Scandinavian countries and Japan – have invaded Denmark’s private sector, overwhelming politicians and public leaders with interview requests.
While Trump has argued that control of the 800,000-square-mile island is necessary for national security purposes, its leaders have repeatedly insisted that it is not for sale.
Juno Berthelsen, a member of parliament from the opposition Naleraq party, said the media firestorm was particularly intense last year when Trump expressed interest in buying Greenland, adding that he had several conversations a day for the past two weeks.
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A reporter conducts an interview in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)
“We are very few people and people tend to get tired when many reporters ask the same questions over and over,” Berthelsen told the Associated Press.
Greenland’s population is about 57,000, with about 20,000 living in Nuuk, a small capital city where the same group of business owners are frequently asked to do news interviews, sometimes as many as 15 a day.
Many residents interviewed by the AP said they want the world to know that Greenlanders will decide their own future and expressed confusion over why Trump wants to control the island.
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Residents and officials of Nuuk are facing increased media attention as President Trump renews efforts to recover the island. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)
“It’s strange how passionate he is [Trump] he’s in Greenland,” Maya Martinsen, 21, told the AP.
He said Trump is “lying about what he wants in Greenland,” asserting that the president is using America’s national security as a way to control “the oil and minerals that we have that are untouched.”
The Americans, Martinsen continued, “see only what they can find in Greenland and not what it really is.”
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Houses in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 13, 2026. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
“It has beautiful nature and lovely people. It’s just home to me. I think Americans just see some kind of commercial business,” he added.
Americans, however, appear to be ambivalent about the acquisition, with 86% of voters nationwide saying they would oppose military action to take Greenland, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. By a margin of 55%-37%, polled voters say they oppose any US attempts to buy Greenland.
On Wednesday, Trump said on social media that “anything less” than US control of Greenland was “unacceptable,” but Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said during a news conference this week that the island would not be managed or governed by the United States.
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Trump’s latest comments have sparked tensions between Denmark and other NATO allies, and troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, were sent to Greenland this week for a brief two-day mission to bolster the region’s defenses.
Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
