TOI correspondent from Washington: Greenland is next. One doesn’t have to be a geopolitical genius to divine that Trumpian America will make a grab for the Danish territory. “Soon” according to Katie Miller, the wife of President Trump’s deputy chief of staff and immigration czar Steven Miller.Katie Miller, who served as a communications director for vice president Mike Pence in the first Trump White House and was a DOGE advisor in the second, posted an incendiary map of Greenland draped in the American stars and stripes with the word “soon” flag hours after the US invasion of Venezuela, setting tongues wagging in Washington. There was mildest of rebukes from Denmark’s ambassador to the US Jesper Moller Sorensen, who reposted Miller’s incitement and shared a ‘friendly reminder’ of the established defense ties between the two countries. “Just a friendly reminder about the US and the Kingdom of Denmark: We are close allies and should continue to work together as such. US security is also Greenland’s and Denmark’s security,” Sorensen wrote, adding, “Greenland is already part of NATO. The Kingdom of Denmark and the United States work together to ensure security in the Arctic.”A slighter stronger reaction came from the Premier of Greenland, Jens Frederik Nielsen, who said “The image shared by Katie Miller, depicting Greenland wrapped in an American flag, changes nothing whatsoever. Our country is not for sale, and our future is not decided by social media posts.”“That said, the image is disrespectful. Relations between nations and peoples are built on mutual respect and international law — not on symbolic gestures that disregard our status and our rights,” he added. But Orla Joelsen, a social media activist from Greenland reminded everyone Trump had asserted two weeks ago that the US needs Greenland for national security, and secretary of state Marco Rubio said following the invasion of Venezuela that “Trump does not just talk. If he says he is serious about something, he means it.” “Donald Trump is so obviously going to annex Greenland. And European leaders will respond with unparalleled levels of “monitoring the situation’” chimed in social media influencer and writer Owen Jones, in a swipe at European pusillanimity and deference to Washington. Few in Washington now doubt Katie Miller’s prediction. But how soon is “soon”?It is almost a year to the day (Jan 7, 2025) that the then President-elect’s son Donald Trump Jr, accompanied by the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, landed in Greenland on a “recce.”
