{"id":397057,"date":"2026-01-09T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:44:09","slug":"greenlanders-on-trumps-takeover-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397057\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenlanders on Trump&#8217;s takeover threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This week, Donald Trump repeated his desire to take over Greenland and make it part of the United States, potentially by using military force. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC&#8217;s Europe Editor Katya Adler visited the Arctic island&#8217;s capital, Nuuk, to ask locals what they thought of the US president&#8217;s renewed threats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One Greenlander said she thought Trump was &#8220;crazy&#8221;, while another said residents &#8220;just want to be left alone&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It comes against a background of global superpowers scrambling for the Arctic for its strategic defence capabilities, as well as for rare earths and other minerals, which are newly accessible due to melting ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, Donald Trump repeated his desire to take over Greenland and make it part of the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-397057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}