{"id":188966,"date":"2026-02-22T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188966\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:12:08","slug":"trump-sending-san-diego-based-navy-hospital-ship-usns-mercy-to-greenland-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188966\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sending San Diego-based Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy to Greenland \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump unexpectedly said Saturday that he is sending the San Diego-based Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy to Greenland to \u201ctake care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social app, adding that the nearly 40-year-old vessel is \u201con the way!!!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The news appears to have caught the government of Denmark off guard. The country\u2019s defense minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-greenland-hospital-ship.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that\u00a0there is \u201cno need for special health care efforts\u201d in Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland is part of the kingdom of Denmark and a major source of controversy. Trump indicated earlier this year he might takeover the autonomous territory, sparking deep anger from Denmark. Trump has since stepped back from a takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The USNS Mercy is one of only two major hospital ships in use by the US Navy. It is a non-commissioned vessel that provided vital service during the Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and has provided humanitarian relief to countries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump unexpectedly said Saturday that he is sending the San Diego-based Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,23,1703,100,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-188966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}