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Donald Trump: “We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Meet the Press Interview with President Donald Trump on Economy, Immigration, and Foreign Policy

Published | Video Starts at 53:56

You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland. I don't rule it out. I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people. Which we'll take care of and we'll cherish them and all of that, but we need that for international security. Do you know we have Russian boats and we have Chinese boats, gunships all over the place, aircraft carriers, gunships going up and down the coast of Greenland. We. (53:56–54:08)

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Asserts that the United States needs Greenland for international security reasons.

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