Greenland Prime Minister Rejects Trump’s Proposal

Firmly rejecting the US president’s proposal to send an American floating hospital to the island, the Prime Minister stressed that Greenland’s public healthcare system offers free services to citizens and that there is no need for such assistance.

According to Rokna, citing Sada El-Balad, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of Greenland, responded to the proposal by Donald Trump, President of the United States, to send a floating hospital to the island and declined it. In response to the proposal, Nielsen said: “No, thank you.”

He called on the United States to engage in formal dialogue instead of publishing “scattered statements” on social media.

In a message posted on Facebook, Nielsen wrote: “President Trump’s idea of sending a floating hospital aboard an American ship to Greenland has reached us, but we have a public healthcare system in which citizens receive treatment free of charge; whereas healthcare services in the United States are not free.”

Trump had previously announced on social media that he had coordinated with Jeff Landry, Governor of the State of Louisiana and the President’s special representative for Greenland affairs, to dispatch a floating hospital to the island.

He also claimed that the ship was “on its way” to Greenland.

Meanwhile, the DR television network reported that the Danish government was unaware of any plan to send a floating hospital from the United States to Greenland. Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark’s Minister of Defence, also stated that there is no need for foreign assistance in this regard.