(CNN) — President Donald Trump delivered a series of false claims about Greenland, the United States and his own accomplishments as he spoke to the media during a Tuesday meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a NATO summit in Ankara.
Perhaps the most topical of the falsehoods was about Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory Trump called again for the US to control. He wrongly claimed, as he has before, that the island is “surrounded by China’s ships and Russian ships.” It’s simply not, as independent experts and various foreign governments have made clear.
Trump also revived his long-debunked claims that he has “settled eight wars,” that former President Joe Biden gave Ukraine “hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment,” that there has been “$19.2 trillion” or more invested in the US since he returned to office last year, and that the 2020 election was “rigged.”
Here is a fact check.
Trump said Greenland is “surrounded by China’s ships and Russian ships.” But there is simply no basis for that claim – which has previously been rejected by independent experts, the Danish government and military, officials from other Nordic countries, Greenlandic officials and residents, and current and former US officials.
In an interview published last month, the commander of the Danish military’s Arctic forces said that, as usual, they did not see Chinese or Russian ships in or around Greenland, Danish media outlet TV 2...
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