Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged Greenland influencing

Christian Wienberg and Sanne Wass, Bloomberg News on Aug 27, 2025

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Denmark’s foreign minister summoned a U.S. diplomat in the Nordic country for talks after a media report suggested American interference in Greenland.

The Arctic island has become a point of tension between Copenhagen and Washington after President Donald Trump’s repeated comments over wanting to take over the territory, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark but has its own government.

At least three Americans with ties to the U.S. president have this year gathered information in Greenland about local Trump supporters and have tried to convince Greenlanders to back a U.S. takeover, according to a Wednesday report by DR, Denmark’s public broadcaster.

“We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland and its position in the Kingdom of Denmark,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a written comment. “Any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom will of course be unacceptable.”

In the statement, Rasmussen said he’d summoned the U.S. charge d’affaires for a meeting at the ministry, without indicating when it would take place. The U.S. embassy in Copenhagen didn’t immediately respond to requests by Bloomberg for comment.

According to the DR report, which cited unidentified government sources in Greenland and the U.S., the Americans in Greenland seek to weaken the ties between the territory and Denmark. The broadcaster said that it was unclear whether the people, which it didn’t identify, worked under U.S. government orders or on their own initiative.