in World News The Dead Simple Way Trump Could Make Greenland Statehood a Reality, And Greenland Citizens and Denmark Would Love It
President-elect Donald Trump seems serious about making Greenland the 51st state. Even if it were just a possession, however, it would cost a lot less than you would think.
How much less? Chanel Rion of One America News Network managed to do the math: about $57 billion.
That’s how much it would cost the United States to pay every man, woman, and child in Greenland a million dollars. Consider it takes a 51 percent vote for Greenland to split from Denmark — something which, according to Politico, could happen in April along with the island’s parliamentary election.
A 2009 agreement with the country stipulates that it can declare independence that way, and Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede said during his New Year’s Day message that he was planning to look into it.
“Our cooperation with other countries, and our trade relations, cannot continue to take place solely through Denmark,” he said, adding that it was time to shake off colonial “shackles.”
While the move didn’t exactly call for Trump to be their savior, the fact that this is happening in tandem with Trump’s inauguration can’t exactly be a coincidence.
Trump, after all, has said that he thinks “the ownership and control of Greenland [by the United States] is an absolute necessity.” Also, Don Jr. made a visit to the island in the run-up to the new administration taking office:
And unlike similar talk about Canada (calling Justin Trudeau the governor of the 51st state just isn’t as fun now that he’s on his way out and the Liberal Party will elect a new sacrificial lamb before parliamentary elections) or the Panama Canal, Greenland really is doable.
After all, Rion pointed out, the money to operate Greenland — which has a permanent population of roughly 60,000 individuals — isn’t that much of a dent in our pockets. The rewards, meanwhile, are great.