Sarah McBride

People would actually come up to us on the streets pleading, not just with us to try to stop this, which of course we are, but pleading of how can we get out of this nightmare?

What can we do?

Because we are willing to literally give anything except what we truly can't give up, which is our sovereignty as a nation, which no nation would give up.

And the reality in Greenland is that families are thinking about leaving.

Children are going without sleep.

And what I think people here don't understand is that Greenland, I think everyone knows it's an island of ice.

But because of that, Denmark essentially subsidizes the majority of the cost of habitation in Greenland, which we would have to absorb as a government if we were to take it over.

We right now, even if we don't engage in force, are utilizing or potentially utilizing vast economic coercion, which will result in the imposition of a massive sales tax on the American people to get an island that we would then have to pay for indefinitely and that we don't want.

The vast majority of Americans don't want.

Even if we don't use force, this is a drain on the taxpayer when we could get everything without all of that cost associated with it.

I think if it continues, absolutely.

I think if it continues and we are seeing 10% new tariffs on these European nations, potentially 25%, potentially more in the weeks and months ahead, I think we absolutely can make it clear to people that Donald Trump is taxing you in order to get something that we don't need because everything that we could materially benefit from

the Greenlandic government and the Danish government are willing to give to us.

We had 20 bases in Greenland after World War II.

It's now down to one.

If we want to reopen those 20 bases, they are more than happy to let us do that.

There are essentially uninvestable natural resources in Greenland because of the hostile terrain.

But if we want to spend whatever money to try to get those natural resources, they're willing to work with us to do that.

There is quite literally

No reason for this.