Donald Trump has not let up on his plan to subsume Greenland into US territory, according to an insider.
Though the president has cooled off his rhetoric over taking the sovereign nation into U.S. control, an administration official speaking to Zeteo confirmed there is still an active interest in the country.
"He still wants it," the insider told Asawin Suebsaeng, who reported there is a plan in place to take Greenland into American control by 2029.
Writing in First Draft, Suebsaeng claimed, "But the damage has already been done – and the threat has not actually gone away. It, like Trump at a meeting, is only napping.
"Additionally, one Trump administration official relays that the president is willing to negotiate, but that Trump has recently expressed some wariness that the Europeans are trying to placate him with the military-base status quo that the Americans already enjoy on the territory.
"Other Trump advisers tell me that, when it comes to Greenland, the president is willing to take his foot off the MAGA-imperialism gas for now, but that little has changed with Trump’s desire.
"In recent conversations, since the crisis temporarily cooled, Trump has said he still believes Greenland should be an American territory, no one else’s, and that he wants it figured out by the end of this term in office, his advisers recount."
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics repeated claims that Trump wants Greenland for reasons of national security and raw mineral resources.
Speaking to CNN, he said, "If there was a ‘pot of gold’ waiting at the end of the rainbow in Greenland, private businesses would have gone there already.
"If given enough taxpayer dollars, private business would be willing to do almost anything. But is that a good foundation on which to purchase a territory? The answer is no in Greenland, just as it’s no in Venezuela."
Suebsaeng also claimed U.S. and European officials are "making nice again in public" though it appears to be more a chance for Trump to back down from bad publicity rather than anything else.
He wrote, "NATO gift-wrapped Trump a temporary, face-saving reprieve from his own blundering imperialism."