# Greenland Donald Trump and the politics of empire

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Podcast: [Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rear-vision-how-history-shaped-today-1530908)
Published: 2026-01-04T01:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/greenland-donald-trump-and-the-politics-of-empire/105872106
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## Resource

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.

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