{"id":491441,"date":"2026-02-22T05:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491441\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:44:09","slug":"trump-says-u-s-sending-hospital-ship-to-greenland-for-people-not-being-taken-care-of-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491441\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says U.S. sending hospital ship to Greenland for people ‘not being taken care \u200cof there’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was working with Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to send a hospital boat to Greenland \u2014 a Danish territory that Trump has \u200csaid he wants to acquire.<\/p>\n

Trump announced the plan on social media moments before hosting a dinner for Republican governors at the White House, where he sat \u200bnext to and chatted with Landry.<\/p>\n

“Working \u200bwith the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat \u200bto Greenland to take care of the many people \u2060who are sick, \u2060and not being taken care \u200cof there. It\u2019s on the way!!!” Trump said.<\/p>\n

Neither the White House nor Landry’s office responded to queries about the post, whether the ship had been requested \u2060by Denmark or Greenland and which sick people needed help. The Department of War had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n

Danish King Frederik paid a second \u200cvisit to Greenland in a year last week, an attempt to demonstrate unity with the territory in the face of Trump’s push to buy the island.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Why does Trump want Greenland?:\"\"<\/p>\n

What’s with Trump\u2019s obsession with Greenland? | About That<\/p>\n

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has long been fascinated with owning and controlling Greenland, spanning from his interest in buying the country in 2019, to his recent refusal to rule out taking it by military force. Andrew Chang explores four potential reasons why Trump calls ownership of Greenland ‘an absolute necessity.’<\/p>\n

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Greenland, Denmark and \u200bthe U.S. held talks late last month to resolve the situation following months of \u2060tensions within the NATO defense alliance.<\/p>\n

Trump’s post came hours after \u2060Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command said it had evacuated a crew member \u2060who \u2060required urgent medical treatment \u200bfrom a U.S. submarine in Greenland’s waters, roughly seven nautical miles outside of \u200bGreenland’s capital, Nuuk.<\/p>\n

It \u2060was unclear what connection Landry had with the matter or if the post had any connection to the evacuation.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy has two hospital ships, the Mercy and the Comfort, but neither are \u2060stationed in Louisiana. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-491441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}