No timeline for Greenland acquisition, Leavitt says

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday indicated that the Trump administration did not have a timetable for the acquisition of Greenland as tensions between the U.S. and the rest of NATO grow over the issue.

Trump, she told reporters, "has not set a timeline." She further called the island's purchase or acquisition a "priority."

“He said that he wants to see the United States acquire Greenland because he feels if we do not then it will eventually be acquired or even perhaps hostilely taken over by either China or Russia, which is not a good thing for the United States or for Europe or for Greenland as well," she went on.

Trump previously floated a purchase of Greenland during his first term, though the Danish rejected any talk of a transfer of ownership. The U.S.'s recent extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, however, has Europeans increasingly worried that Washington may pursue military action.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.