Fetterman open to potential Greenland acquisition, declares support for Laken Riley Act
While President-elect Donald Trump continues to express interest in the US getting Greenland, Sen. John FettermanD-Pa., has expressed a willingness to address the concept.
Fetterman noted that he would not support the forcible occupation of Greenland — but the senator, who made the comments during an appearance on Fox News Channel “Special report,” he pointed to historic American land acquisitions, including the Louisiana Purchase and the Alaska Purchase.
In a post on Truth Social last month, Trump said: “For the purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America considers ownership and control of Greenland to be an absolute necessity.”
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., reacts to a question from a member of the media on March 22, 2024 in Washington, DC (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
“Greenland is an amazing place, and the people will benefit enormously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation. We will protect and nurture it from the very wicked outside world. LET’S MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!” he said in a post by Truth Social on Monday.
Donald Trump Jr. he visited Greenland on Tuesday.
The ice island “has its own extensive local government, but is also part of the Kingdom of Denmark,” writes denmark.dk. “Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953, when it was redefined as a district of Denmark. In addition to its own local government, Greenland has two representatives in the Danish parliament, folketing.”
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Donald Trump Jr. (2ndR) poses after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 7, 2025. (EMIL STACH/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
USA House of Representatives passed Laken Riley’s bill by a bipartisan vote of 264-159 on Tuesday, and Fetterman said he plans to support passage in the Senate.
The measure is named after a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student who was killed by an illegal alien in Georgia last year.
The Act requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to order the detention of an illegal alien who admits to, or has been charged, arrested, or convicted of acts containing essential elements of theft or similar offenses, and to take custody of the person if they have not been detained by federal, state, or local authorities.
Fetterman said he doesn’t know why anyone finds it controversial that people in the U.S. illegally who commit crimes “should go away.”
“Do you think that was one of, if not the biggest issue of this election?” Fox News’ Brett Baier asked Fetterman.
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The senator responded that if Senate Democrats couldn’t muster 7 votes to support the measure, that was one of the reasons they lost.
