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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: GreenMet CEO Drew Horn joins me now. Drew, you heard the president there. What do you think he means when he says, quote, that's going to be a big problem for him, meaning "the premier of Greenland?"
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Well, thanks for having me. I guess I would say I think it's a big problem on multiple fronts, mainly because his own people have made it quite clear in Greenland that they want support from the United States.
There is no NATO, There is no Greenlandic security without the United States. We're already providing not only the security of Greenland, but essentially Denmark's, the entire European security.
It's ridiculous for him to talk about how he's going to have to choose between the two. And he's not speaking with consent of his own constituents and making these kinds of ridiculous statements.
So I think President Trump is absolutely right to call him on that ridiculous statement.
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As we wait to see what comes out of this meeting between Vance, Rubio, Greenland and Denmark - is there a sweet spot here, Drew, where everyone gets what they want, everyone gets what they need, and quite frankly, everyone gets to save face?
And if so, Drew, what is that sweet spot?
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There absolutely is a sweet spot.
And, you know, I think that there's just a lot of, you know, ridiculous narrative coming from the Europeans on this particular subject.
What President Trump is offering is billions of dollars of investment in the form of private investments and projects, all of which we're looking at that span from AI data centers to multiple rare earth and critical minerals projects. I mean, the sky is the limit.
And everybody benefits from this, including the Danes, including the EU, including NATO.
But most importantly, the Greenlanders who have overwhelmingly said they want investment and support from the United States.
They want a pathway towards independence. And they are absolutely tired of being exploited and oppressed by the Danes as they have been for the last hundred years.
You know, the era of colonialism is over. And it's time to let people achieve their own destiny.
No one is going to stand in the way of the Greenlanders achieving the goal that they want. And they need the United States for that.
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And to that point, what do you make of this idea of increasing NATO's presence in Greenland to counteract the threat of China and Russia? Is that enough?
Should that be enough for the United States in light of the fact that Trump has said his concern with Greenland is Chinese and Russian investment taking over, whatever?
Or is this really about the minerals and the mineral rights and being able to unlock what Greenland has to offer to help us economically as well?
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Well, there's obviously a joint nexus between national security and economic development. I mean, looking at this from the president's perspective, my opinion is he realizes that you need to do both.
And so the reality is NATO is not able to protect itself without the United States.
I think we need to stop pretending that there's some sort of world in which NATO exists without the United States.
We've been propping it up for years and years and years. And obviously, the European members need to do more of a part to contribute and pull their weight.
So they do need to contribute more towards the collective Arctic security.
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