A week before Greenlanders go to the polls to elect their members of parliament, the US is on voters' minds as President Donald Trump again voiced his desire to annex the Arctic island during an address to congress. Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede hit back at Trump’s pledge to take the island "one way or the other", saying that islanders did not see their future with the United States or even Denmark.
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00:00And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.
00:13We strongly support your right to determine your own future.
00:18And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.
00:21We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we're working
00:27with everybody involved to try and get it.
00:30But we need it really for international world security.
00:34And I think we're going to get it.
00:36One way or the other, we're going to get it.
00:57I think it's absurd, really absurd that a man who is basically the most powerful person
01:26in the world right now is coming with statements like that on a country and promising us riches
01:35and becoming the 51st state of the United States.
01:42I mean, I think it's absurd.
01:47I was very stunned that you, again, were emphasizing that you wanted to have Greenland and that
01:56it should be linked to the United States, because this is not anything Greenlanders want.
02:02There are, of course, a minority who are more pro-US, but the majority would see Greenland
02:11as their own state and not underneath any other sovereign power.
02:27I am fighting for more companies here in Greenland.
02:33And then we have to fight for our culture, because Denmark took it away from us, our
02:38culture, because we have to think like Danes, we have to dress like Danes, and we have to
02:43eat like Danes.
02:45And I want our culture back.