Greenlanders have rejected the idea of joining the US, despite Donald Trump’s insistence that the US could provide the island with “freedom”.
A new poll shows that an overwhelming 85% of Greenlanders do not want the island to become part of the US, despite US President Donald Trump’s push to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Trump has ramped up calls to take the world’s largest island, rich in natural resources and home to a US space facility.
“I think we are going to have it,” Trump said on Saturday, insisting the island’s 57,000 residents “want to be with us”.
However, a poll by research company Verian for newspaper Sermitsiaq in Greenland and Danish media outlet Berlingske shows only 6% of residents want to join the US, with 9% undecided.
Continued on the website euronews