LOADING ERROR LOADINGWhite House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Friday claimed the United States of America has a right to annex Greenland because the “tiny country” of Denmark can’t defend its self-governing territory against U.S. military might. Advertisement“Greenland is the size of one-fourth the continental United States,” he told Sean Hannity. “With respect to Denmark, Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot control the territory of Greenland.”He continued, “Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, improve a territory, inhabit a territory. Greenland is 25% larger than Alaska.”He then argued the U.S. spends too much money on Greenland’s defense to not just take it — and that Trump is merely “insisting that we be respected.”Advertisement“But they say, well … it belongs 100% to Denmark,” Miller told Hannity.

Source: Huffington Post January 18, 2026 04:39 UTC