Nancy Pelosi Hits Trump With Brutal Reality Check On His Greenland Takeover Plan

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) connected Wednesday poked amusive astatine President Donald Trump’s plans to get Greenland, referencing the unpopularity of his proposition among the radical who unrecorded connected the island.

“I deliberation that much radical deliberation that Elvis Presley is live successful the United States than Greenlanders who deliberation they privation to beryllium portion of the United States,” Pelosi told Politico’s Securing Europe: NATO’s Next Steps Event.

Indeed, his propulsion for annexing the land seems wildly unpopular with Greenlanders. Just 6% said they supported the thought of becoming portion of the U.S., according to a canvass published successful precocious January.

Despite the discouraging numbers, Trump, who has repeatedly made his tendency to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory known, said helium would not regularisation retired taking the land by force.

“I don’t accidental I’m going to bash it, but I don’t regularisation retired anything,” Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker this weekend. “We request Greenland precise badly. Greenland is simply a precise tiny magnitude of people, which we’ll instrumentality attraction of, and we’ll cherish them, and each of that. But we request that for planetary security.”

The Trump medication seems to beryllium already taking steps to recognize the president’s goal. High-ranking officials moving for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered U.S. quality agencies to measurement up their spying of the island, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

In effect to the article, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said helium would telephone the acting U.S. ambassador to Denmark to reappraisal the report’s contents, which helium described arsenic “disturbing.”

“We bash not spy connected friends,” Rasmussen said, according to Reuters.

Denmark, on with the U.S., are of the 12 founding members of the NATO subject alliance.

Asked if the European Union and NATO tin inactive number connected the U.S. arsenic a “reliable partner,” Pelosi said: I “absolutely anticipation so.”

“I deliberation it’s indispensable to planetary information that the United States beryllium an indispensable portion of it,” Pelosi added.

Despite past comments by the president questioning his committedness to NATO, the California Democrat expressed optimism that the U.S. would grant the alliance’s communal assistance clause, conscionable arsenic its chap members did aft the Sept. 11, 2001, violent attacks. Notably, this was the lone clip that NATO’s communal assistance clause has ever been triggered.

Pelosi besides warned of the dire consequences that would travel if the U.S. abandoned its NATO allies.

“I bash deliberation that if we arsenic the United States of America bash not grant our commitments,” she said, “I don’t cognize however we expect radical to grant their commitments to us.”

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