A Republican lawmaker’s new proposal to rename Greenland “Red, White and Blueland” isn’t striking a welcoming chord with a Danish member of parliament, who had some choice words for the U.S. government.
The reaction from Anders Vistisen came Tuesday after Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) filed legislation called the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025” – the latest escalation of President Donald Trump’s repeated demand for the United States to acquire the Arctic territory.
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority,” Carter said in a statement Tuesday. “And we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”
But the idea isn’t sitting well with Vistisen, a member of the right-wing populist party, who slammed the legislative move as harmful to Washington’s relations with Denmark, according to Politico.
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“There is clearly a need for more adults in the room when the U.S. administration formulates foreign policy,” he told Politico. “If these people can’t see how absurd they appear, they are out of touch with reality.”
Officials in Denmark and Greenland have said for months that the island is not available for purchase, which Vistisen reiterated Tuesday.
“Greenland is not for sale, and the only thing the U.S. achieves with this behavior is alienating one of its most loyal and reliable allies in Europe,” Vistisen said to Politico. “The U.S. doesn’t grow stronger by losing such an ally — only weaker and more irrelevant to the world.”