Secretary of State Blinken: America controlling Greenland "will not happen"
During a press conference in Paris on the afternoon of August 8, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while on a trip to France, was asked by a reporter about then-President Donald Trump's apparent interest in purchasing Greenland. Blinken said that what Trump wants "is not going to happen."Speaking during a press conference in Paris on August 8, Blinken was asked "whether he wanted to comment on [then-President Trump's] plan to buy Greenland." "I didn't know he had a plan.