The opposition Demokraatit Party in Greenland won a surprise general election victoryon Tuesday, in vote dominated by US President Donald Trump's goal to take over Denmark's semiautonomous territory. But Greenland actually favors independence from Denmark and any other country, including the United States.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland's likely new prime minister, has opposed Trump's repeated claims to annex the territory. "We don't want to be Americans. No, we don't want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders, and we want our own independence in the future," Nielsen told Britain's Sky News on Wednesday. "And we want to build our own country by ourselves."
However, both Trump and his supporters have continued to spread false claims about the current political situation between the US and Greenland. DW Fact Check looked at two recent, viral assertions.
Claim: "We have a couple of bases in Greenland already," Trump said during talks with the NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Thursday, adding that the US needed Greenland for national security, as also quoted in this post on X.
DW fact check: False
The United States only has one operable military base in Greenland: Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base), located on Greenland's northwest coast. It was opened in 1951 and has been under US Space Force command since 2020. It exists today due to agreements between the Kingdom of Denmark and the US,...
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