Greenland rejects Trump's offer

No, Greenland will not become the 51st state of the United States. For the Greenlandic Prime Minister, Mute Egede, there's no question of Donald Trump buying the island and taking it over.

"With what has happened recently and what the American president has said and done, we don't want to be so close [to the United States], as we may have wanted to be before," says Mute Egede who, in an interview broadcasted on Monday, March 10 on Danish public television, rejected the American president's proposal to attach the Danish autonomous territory to the United States, reports Franceinfo.

The Prime Minister of Greenland added that the "world order is faltering on many fronts," regretting having to deal with "an American president who is very unpredictable and, as a result, makes people anxious". Mr. Egede believes that Donald Trump hasn't treated the Greenlandic population "with respect".

These statements were made on the eve of the legislative elections in Greenland. Mute Egede confirmed his goal: to move towards the independence of the island.

(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: Franceinfo - Illustration: ©Unsplash)