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“Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there,” Trump wrote Saturday night on Truth Social. “It’s on the way!!!”
Gov. Landry was designated the special envoy to Greenland in December and held formal discussions of the road map of Trump’s designs to solidify Arctic security from threats from Russia or China.
Then in late January, Landry spoke with NATO leadership and expressed support for a “framework of a future deal” to expand U.S. influence in the region.
The help was offered after Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command evacuated a crew member who required urgent medical treatment from a U.S. submarine in Greenlandic waters. The crew member was transferred to the Greenlandic health authorities via a Danish Defense Seahawk helicopter to a hospital in Nuuk, according to the Joint Arctic Command.
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said Sunday that Greenland doesn’t need medical help.
“The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs,” Poulsen said. “They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialized treatment, they receive it in Denmark.
“So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland.”
Then, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen publicly rejected Trump’s proposal and warned him to stop making “random” social media posts about Greenland’s future.
“We say no thank you from here,” Nielsen wrote. “President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens.”
Nielsen contrasted Greenland’s system with the U.S. system, writing that “it costs money to go to the doctor” in America, which is not true in Greenland.
He said Greenland wants to maintain open to dialogue with the U.S., but they want to do so directly.
“Talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media,” he wrote. “Dialogue and cooperation require respect for decisions about our country being made here at home.”
"It’s going to be a no thank you from here," Jens‑Frederik Nielsen said in a pointed statement on Facebook Sunday. https://t.co/NXbddjTvoo
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 22, 2026
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