Trump’s Own Officials Go Public to Debunk His Bizarre Greenland Flex
The Daily Beast • • general
Key Points:
- The Pentagon has not received any orders to send a U.S. hospital ship to Greenland, despite former President Donald Trump’s claim on social media that one is “on its way” to care for sick people there.
- Both U.S. Navy hospital ships, USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy, are currently undergoing maintenance and are not available for deployment, with Comfort repairs lasting until April and Mercy in a year-long maintenance period.
- Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen firmly rejected Trump’s suggestion, emphasizing Greenland’s robust public healthcare system and stating that no U.S. hospital ship assistance is needed or wanted.
- Any deployment of a U.S. hospital ship to Greenland would require a formal request from Danish officials,
