Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland introduced by Sen. Gallego

Sen. Ruben Gallego said Tuesday that helium was introducing a solution to artifact President Donald Trump from invading Greenland.

"WAKE UP," Gallego, D-Ariz., wrote on the societal media tract X, arsenic the Trump medication ratcheted up rhetoric astir the United States taking implicit Greenland, which is simply a self-governing Danish territory.

"Trump is telling america precisely what helium wants to do. We indispensable halt him earlier helium invades different state connected a whim," Gallego wrote. "I'm introducing a solution to artifact Trump from invading Greenland. No much everlastingly wars."

Trump, successful an interrogation implicit the play with The Atlantic magazine, said helium would permission it to others to find if the caller U.S. onslaught connected Venezuela to seizure its leader, Nicolas Maduro, had implications for Greenland. But helium besides said, "We bash request Greenland, absolutely. We request it for defense."

"We request Greenland from the standpoint of nationalist security, and Denmark is not going to beryllium capable to bash it, I tin archer you," Trump said separately connected Sunday aboard Air Force One.

Gallego connected Monday introduced an amendment to the Senate Defense Appropriations measure to prohibit the usage of funds for subject unit against Greenland.

"President Trump believes Greenland is simply a strategically important determination that is captious from the standpoint of nationalist security, and helium is assured Greenlanders would beryllium amended served if protected by the United States from modern threats successful the Arctic region," a White House spokeswoman said successful a connection Tuesday.

"The President is committed to establishing semipermanent bid astatine location and abroad," the spokeswoman said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, was asked by reporters connected Capitol Hill earlier Tuesday if helium was acrophobic astir the onslaught connected Venezuela spreading to Cuba and Greenland.

"I anticipation it does dispersed to Cuba. Greenland's a antithetic deal," Graham said. "Everybody wants america to person a bigger beingness successful Greenland to combat the Russian/Chinese Arctic influence. I wholly hold with that. Well, I deliberation Trump's asking, what's the ineligible narration we're going to have?"

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told reporters connected the Hill connected Tuesday, "If I'm a European subordinate of NATO, I would reassess my information successful the endeavor if NATO countries are being invaded by Donald Trump."

Asked if NATO countries would person to support Greenland against the United States, Murphy said, "Of course, yes."

"That's what Article 5 says. Article 5 did not expect that the invading state would beryllium a subordinate of NATO," Murphy said. "We're laughing, but this is not really thing to laughter astir present due to the fact that I deliberation he's progressively serious."

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen connected Sunday urged the United States "to halt the threats against a historically adjacent state and against different state and different radical who person said precise intelligibly that they are not for sale."

"The Kingdom of Denmark — and frankincense Greenland — is portion of NATO and is truthful covered by the alliance's information guarantee," she said.

"We already person a defence statement betwixt the Kingdom and the United States today, which gives the United States wide entree to Greenland," Frederiksen said.