Episode
Greenland Donald Trump and the politics of empire
- Published
- Jan 4, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1746
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rear-vision-how-history-shaped-today-1530908/episodes/greenland-donald-trump-and-the-politics-of-empire/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/rear-vision-how-history-shaped-today-1530908/greenland-donald-trump-and-the-politics-of-empire.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
President Trump wants to buy or take control of Greenland from Denmark. But Denmark has made very clear, they don’t have the right to sell Greenland because Greenland is owned by the people of Greenland. Donald Trump is not the first US president to try and buy Greenland. The story of Greenland and America’s many attempts to gain control of the largest island on the planet.