Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) launched a brand new invoice this week aiming to rename Greenland to “Red, White, and Blueland,” as President Trump seeks to amass the island territory.
The laws, known as the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025,” directs Inside Secretary Doug Burgum to supervise the implementation of the identify change and to make sure official documentation and maps check with Greenland by its up to date identify.
The laws additionally authorizes President Trump to enter into negotiations with Denmark “to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland.”
“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland,” Carter mentioned in a press release Tuesday, after introducing the laws.
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” he added.
Trump has repeatedly expressed curiosity in buying Greenland, a semi-autonomous nation that’s presently below Denmark’s management. He has argued that the U.S. taking up the Arctic island is critical for nationwide safety functions.
Throughout his inauguration speech, Trump referred to the U.S. as a rising nation increasing its territory. He has additionally known as for the U.S. to retake the Panama Canal and mused about annexing Canada.
Greenland and Denmark have emphatically resisted Trump’s push to amass the nation.
“We don’t want to be Danes,” Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede beforehand mentioned on Fox Information. “We don’t even want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has additionally insisted Greenland shouldn’t be on the market and that it’s as much as Greenland to make its choice about its independence.
