{"id":189158,"date":"2026-02-22T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:47:07","slug":"san-diego-based-usns-mercy-not-deployed-to-greenland-denmark-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189158\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-based USNS Mercy not deployed to Greenland, Denmark says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/USNS-Mercy-return-640.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USNS-Mercy-return-640.jpg\" alt=\"The USNS Mercy returned to San Diego with about 350 crew members. Medical personnel were bused back starting Tuesday.\" class=\"wp-image-114488\"  \/><\/a>The USNS Mercy returned to San Diego with about 350 crew members. Medical personnel were bused back starting Tuesday. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Leaders in Denmark are rejecting an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump this weekend that seemed to indicate the San Diego-based Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy is being deployed to Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there,\u201d the president posted on Truth Social. \u201cIt\u2019s on the way!!! President DJT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post was accompanied by a rendering of the Mercy, apparently indicating that it was the one being deployed of the two Navy hospital ships in the U.S fleet. <\/p>\n<p>The other such ship is the USNS Comfort, which is home-ported in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Both ships are currently moored in Alabama for repairs, the Mercy since last summer and the Comfort since last month. It was unclear which ship the president was referring to. <\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the U.S. Navy in San Diego could not be reached for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Denmark was swift.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\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 on Sunday<\/a> that his country had not been made aware of Trump\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told Denmark\u2019s public broadcaster, DR, that there was \u201cno need for special health care efforts\u201d in Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland is an Arctic island and a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been on record saying he wants to make Greenland a territory of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark wrote in an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVDhQQijZs0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health care for everyone. The same approach exists in Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USNS Mercy returned to San Diego with about 350 crew members. 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