Marco Rubio Tells Megyn Kelly That Trump’s Greenland Bid ‘Is Not A Joke’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly on Thursday during her show that President Donald Trump’s bid for Greenland is “not a joke.”

In recent weeks, Trump has reiterated his interest in purchasing Greenland, a territory controlled by Denmark. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the SiriusXM host asked the newly confirmed secretary of state about the land grab and mentioned Denmark’s resistance to giving up the territory. Some reports say Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had a heated discussion with the president over the matter.

“Well, I think President Trump, what he has said publicly is he wants to buy it. He wants to pay for it. How we worked on something like that, how something like that is approached, obviously is probably done better in the appropriate forms. A lot of this stuff is done publicly, and it’s not helpful because it puts the other side in a tough spot domestically,” Rubio said. “So those conversations are going to happen. But this is not a joke. What he is saying is pretty accurate.”

“This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest, and it needs to be solved. President Trump has put out there what he intends to do, which is to purchase it. I wasn’t privy to that phone call, but I imagine the phone call went the way a lot of these phone calls go, and that is he just speaks bluntly and frankly with people,” Rubio added. “Ultimately I think diplomacy in many cases works better when you’re straightforward as opposed to using platitudes and language that translates to nothing.”

Trump first raised the issue of purchasing Greenland during his first term. In August 2019, Trump asked his advisors about buying Greenland,