Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement

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"gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland"

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Read in full on the trumpstruth.org archive mirror, which shows the full text, the original post date (Friday, September 18, 2026, 05:18 pm EDT), the Truth Social status ID and the original URL https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117294126158197822; truthsocial.com itself is Cloudflare-blocked and was not opened. The post says the United States “has entered into an Agreement,” whereas the Danish and Greenlandic release describes an expected agreement still to be signed. The identical text was posted on Trump’s X account (separate source). This page was captured by the mirror on September 19, 2026 at 11:51 AM EDT; the mirror’s later Truth Social entries through 12:52 PM EDT that day, including the transcript of a 1:06 AM video, do not mention Greenland.

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"reagerede i går aftes kort på den nye aftale med USA i et Facebook-opslag"

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Danish-language news item that quotes all three Danish sentences word for word, says she reacted 'i går aftes' (last night) on Facebook and that she shared Múte B. Egede's post, in which he writes that an agreement is within reach. Opened twice on 2026-09-19; unchanged between reads.

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"Jeg har ikke den store tiltro til Trump."

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Danish-language news item that quotes the first two paragraphs of her Facebook post word for word as two bulleted quotes, calls her 'tidligere folketingsmedlem for IA' and paraphrases other parts of the post. Opened twice on 2026-09-19; unchanged between reads.

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"No text of the agreement has been released."

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News report used only for the state of the record: no text of the agreement had been released, and Denmark and Greenland said in a joint statement that the three governments were expected to sign at the UN General Assembly the following week, subject to the necessary parliamentary procedures. Read 2026-09-19 at about 9:40 a.m. ET. NBC News (published 2026-09-18 22:37 UTC, modified 2026-09-19 08:15 UTC) also says the full text had not been released. The Danish Prime Minister's Office release of 2026-09-18 (english.stm.dk) carries the joint statement.

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"Aftalen er endnu ikke offentliggjort, og vi har derfor ikke set, hvad den indebærer."

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KNR explainer published Saturday 19 September 2026 at 12:06 Nuuk time (13:06 UTC; 9:06 AM EDT). It states that Trump announced the agreement on Truth Social on Friday evening and that shortly afterwards Formandens Departement and Statsministeriet confirmed the expected signing in a joint press release, and it says the agreement text has not been published. Translation of the excerpt (DI's): “The agreement has not yet been published, and we have therefore not seen what it entails.”

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"Der er nogle processer, når forskellige regeringer samarbejder, og aftaler bliver underskrevet, som blandt andet igangsættes i de respektive parlamenter."

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KNR article on Egede’s interview on KNR TV on the evening of 18 September, published 23:12 Nuuk time (00:12 UTC; 8:12 PM EDT). KNR prints his answers as quotations; no recording of the interview was opened, so the wording rests on KNR’s printed transcription. Translation of the excerpt (DI's): “There are some processes, when different governments cooperate and agreements are signed, which are set in motion, among other places, in the respective parliaments.” KNR’s own sentence, not Egede’s words: “Múte B. Egede vil ikke kommentere på selve aftalens indhold. Han kommenterer heller ikke direkte på den amerikanske forsvarsministers udmelding.” (He will not comment on the content of the agreement itself, nor directly on the U.S. defense secretary’s announcement.)

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"Vi er nu nået dertil, hvor en aftale mellem Grønland, Danmark og USA er inden for rækkevidde."

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Greenlandic outlet’s report reproducing the Danish block of Egede’s Facebook post in full, so the Danish paragraph can be checked without Facebook; it introduces him as “Naalakkersuisoq for udenrigsanliggender, Múte B. Egede (IA)” and reports that Trump announced the agreement on Truth Social on Friday evening and that Naalakkersuisut expected signature at the UN General Assembly the following week. Published Saturday 19 September 2026 at 02:27 Nuuk time (03:27 UTC; 11:27 PM EDT Friday). Sermitsiaq.AG does not carry the English block.

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"KNR har rakt ud til formanden for naalakkersuisut, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, men han har ingen kommentarer og henviser til pressemeddelelsen."

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Live-updated article by KNR, Greenland’s public broadcaster, first published 18 September 2026 at 20:29 Nuuk time (21:29 UTC); the copy read on 2026-09-19 also embeds the Facebook posts of Nielsen and Egede and describes the joint release and Trump’s Truth Social post. Translation of the excerpt (DI's): “KNR has reached out to the Chairman of Naalakkersuisut, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, but he has no comments and refers to the press release.” The sentence is KNR’s report, not Nielsen’s own words.

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"udtaler hun i en fælles pressemeddelelse med formanden for naalakkersuisut"

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Danish-language article from Greenland's public broadcaster, opened via curl and updated as events developed; the page is dated 18 September 2026 20:29 Greenland time (21:29 UTC). It first reports Trump's Truth Social post, then that the Prime Minister's Office had just confirmed the agreement, quotes Frederiksen 'in a joint press release with the chairman of Naalakkersuisut' (my translation), and reports that KNR asked Nielsen, who had no comments and referred to the press release. The page does not give the release's own time of day.

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"Den grønlandske internetkriger Orla Joelsen stiller op til Folketinget for partiet Atassut."

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Danish-language DR item of 2026-03-05, opened directly. Translation: "The Greenlandic internet warrior Orla Joelsen is running for the Folketing for the party Atassut. He tells DR." The next sentence says he has organized large demonstrations against Donald Trump in several Greenlandic towns. Used only to document the candidacy for the speaker capacity; the Danish Wikipedia page on the 2026 Folketing election in Greenland lists him among the Atassut candidates.

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"Our fight against Trump’s ambition to take over Greenland has been won."

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His later post, cited only for what followed. Read through fxtwitter; see the assigned-post event in this file.

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"appears to remain within the framework of the 1951 Defence Agreement"

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Joelsen's own post on X (@OJoelsen), read through fxtwitter (https://api.fxtwitter.com/OJoelsen/status/2101086241961972191) and through the X timeline endpoint (fxtwitter /2/profile/OJoelsen/statuses); created_at Fri Sep 18 23:09:31 +0000 2026 (7:09 PM EDT), Snowflake ID decoded to 2026-09-18T23:09:31.035Z. The post is a long-form note post, not a reply or quote. He hedges the reading ("I believe", "appears to"), consistent with the text being unpublished. Not archived: Wayback Machine lookups were throttled and x.com is not captured.

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"I obviously do not mean this absolves him of his threats to Greenland. I mean this is an impressive diplomatic effort from Denmark and Greenland."

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Her own later reply in the same thread, read through the Bluesky API (getPostThread). Used only as context for what followed her post; it is not part of the quotation.

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"you can just keep restating agreements you've already made to him as though they're new breakthroughs he's made"

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Her own reply in the same thread, read through the Bluesky API (getPostThread). Used only as context for what followed her post; it is not part of the quotation.

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"it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him"

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Dayal's own Bluesky post (@anjalikdayal.bsky.social, DID did:plc:wqhbdx55f4vv7bnpps5pur4c), a quote-post of Aaron Rupar's post (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvt42eegvc27, 5:22 PM EDT), which carries a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social announcement and one quoted line of it. Read through the public Bluesky API (getPostThread): record.createdAt 2026-09-18T21:29:23.730Z = 5:29 PM EDT. The quotation is the text field of Dayal's own record; the quoted post's words are Rupar's and Trump's. "Him" in the post refers to Trump (her same-thread reply speaks of restating agreements "you've already made to him as though they're new breakthroughs he's made"). It was the most-liked of 319 quote-posts of Rupar's post that were retrieved (1,104 likes at check time). Not archived: Wayback Machine lookups were throttled and Bluesky pages are client-rendered.

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"the deal, which has not yet been made public"

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AP wire report as carried by ABC News, published 2026-09-19 5:37 AM EDT (09:37 UTC), last modified 16:10 UTC. Opened in full. Used only for two context facts: the agreement text was not public, and the U.S. and Denmark already had a long-standing security agreement (AP's wording for the 1951 Defense of Greenland accord). The same AP text is carried by CBS News (cbsnews.com/news/denmark-greenland-leaders-us-security-deal-trump/). A news search on 2026-09-19 found no report that the text had been published since.

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"Following signature, the agreement will enter into force subject to the necessary national parliamentary procedures."

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Official English version of the joint press release, dated 9/18/2026 (no time shown on the page). The Prime Minister's Office announced it on X at 2026-09-18 21:37:58 UTC (5:37 PM EDT; https://x.com/Statsmin/status/2101063203862057308, timestamp decoded from the post ID and confirmed through fxtwitter). Danish original: https://stm.dk/presse/pressemeddelelser/forventet-aftale-om-styrket-sikkerhed-i-arktis-og-det-nordatlantiske-omraade/ , where the Frederiksen quotation reads "udsigt til en god aftale" (the prospect of a good agreement) whereas the English version says "a great agreement". The release describes an expected agreement; it does not publish the text.

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"Step 1: Slip Trump a copy of the 1951 Defense Agreement, but with the name changed."

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Nexon's own Bluesky post (@dhnexon.net, DID did:plc:uvia34usrnxja3i55zafiyeg), a quote-post of Aaron Rupar's post (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvt42eegvc27, 5:22 PM EDT), which carries a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social announcement and one quoted line of it. Read through the public Bluesky API (com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle, app.bsky.feed.getPostThread): record.createdAt 2026-09-18T21:31:44.506Z = 5:31 PM EDT. The quotation is the text field of Nexon's own record; the quoted post's words are Rupar's and Trump's, not Nexon's. The post is written as a sarcastic three-step scenario. Bluesky posts cannot be edited. Not archived: Wayback Machine lookups were throttled (HTTP 429) and Bluesky pages are client-rendered.

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"President Donald Trump named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Sunday as his special envoy to Greenland"

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Reuters report carried on nbcnews.com (Dec. 21, 2025, 10:44 PM EST; updated Dec. 22, 2025). Used only to confirm Landry's roles as governor and special envoy; it predates and does not concern the September 2026 agreement.

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"This agreement will advance the security interests of the United States, Greenland, and Denmark and prevent our common adversaries from gaining a foothold in the Arctic."

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Landry's own long-form post on his X account @JeffLandry (bio: U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland, 57th Governor of Louisiana; verified individual account). It has two attached images, which are screenshots of Trump's Truth Social announcement. Read on 2026-09-19 through api.fxtwitter.com and api.vxtwitter.com, which return the same full text; X's syndication endpoint truncates long-form posts after "the United States," but its author, timestamp (21:57:58 UTC) and opening text agree, the timestamp also decodes from the post ID, and the syndication record shows the post was never edited. The account is Landry's personal-brand account, not the state's official governor account (@LAGovJeffLandry, linked from gov.louisiana.gov). The post ends with two flag emoji (U.S., Greenland), which are not part of the quotation. No archive copy was made (the Internet Archive does not capture x.com).

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"came ahead of the official text being released"

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Context source only; it records no statement by the speaker of this event. Read in full on cnn.com on 2026-09-19. It says Trump's announcement came ahead of the official text being released and, citing the Danish Prime Minister's Office statement, that the three governments were expected to sign the following week at the UN General Assembly. State Department (press-releases list) and White House (briefings and fact-sheets lists) pages showed no Greenland text or fact sheet when checked at about 1:20 PM EDT on 2026-09-19.

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"gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland"

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Context source for the announcement that prompted the statement; it records no statement by the speaker of this event. truthsocial.com blocks automated retrieval, so the full text and the 5:18 PM EDT timestamp (21:18:49 UTC) were read on the trumpstruth.org archive page for the same post ID (117294126158197822, status 41803), which links to the original; the post ID decodes to the same timestamp. The same text appears in the screenshot images posted by @RapidResponse47 (quoted by Jim Banks) and attached to Jeff Landry's X post.

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"This historic agreement with Denmark ensures the United States and our allies will be able to secure Greenland and the High North against our adversaries for generations to come."

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Banks's own post on his official X account (@SenatorBanks, government-verified, linked from banks.senate.gov). It quotes a post by the White House Rapid Response account (@RapidResponse47, 5:23 PM EDT) that consists only of an image of Trump's Truth Social announcement. Read on 2026-09-19 through api.fxtwitter.com, api.vxtwitter.com and X's syndication endpoint, which agree on the text and on the timestamp (21:59:35 UTC); the timestamp also decodes from the post ID and the syndication record shows the post was never edited. No archive copy was made (the Internet Archive does not capture x.com).

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"It is absolutely crucial that any agreement preserves our right to self-determination."

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First published 2026-09-18 22:09 UTC; the version opened was updated 2026-09-19 11:36 UTC and carries this quotation, which post-dates the first publication (her post was 22:44 UTC). BBC's English is '[It's] news we have all been hoping for' and 'It is absolutely crucial that any agreement preserves our right to self-determination'; it omits the third sentence. It also states the agreement text has not been published.

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"Det er afgørende vigtigt at en eventuel aftale fastholder vores ret til selvbestemmelse."

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Her own post on her Facebook politician page. The post is bilingual: a Greenlandic text comes first ('Nutaarsiassaq tamatta tusassallugu neriuutigisimasarput. Pingaaruteqarluinnarpoq isumaqatigiissutaasinnaasup nammineq aalajangiisinnaatitaanerput attatiinnassagaa ...'), then after '//' the Danish text quoted here. Danish original, read from the page DOM: 'En nyhed vi alle har håbet på ville komme. Det er afgørende vigtigt at en eventuel aftale fastholder vores ret til selvbestemmelse. Hepper på at Naalakkersuisut vil få aftalen hen over målstregen' (no final period in the post), followed by 'God lørdag til jer' and the hashtags #Kalaallitnunaat #Greenland #Grønland. The English exactQuotation is a translation of the Danish; the Greenlandic version was not independently translated. The post embeds a shared post by Múte Bourup Egede. Facebook may block automated fetching; the timestamp is visible on hover.

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"until then, I'm sceptical"

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First published 2026-09-18 22:09 UTC; the version opened was updated 2026-09-19 11:36 UTC and carries this quotation, which post-dates the first publication. BBC's own English rendering of her Danish is 'until then, I'm sceptical' and 'I don't have much confidence in Trump'. It also states the agreement text has not been published.

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"Jeg har ikke den store tiltro til Trump."

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Her own public post on her Facebook page (photo post, 'feeling thankful at Nuuk', shared with Public). Danish original of the quoted paragraphs: 'Jeg glæder mig til blækket er tørt på den nye aftale med USA. Og til at vi kan se indholdet. Indtil da er jeg skeptisk.' / 'Jeg har ikke den store tiltro til Trump.' The English exactQuotation is a translation; Facebook's own machine translation renders the first sentence as 'I'm looking forward to the deal being finalized' and differs. The post continues with six more paragraphs: she does not buy Trump's premise of acute threats near Greenland other than U.S. political ones; the solution for Greenland right now is not more U.S. military presence but a more robust economy, welfare and security; respect for sovereignty and self-determination should be a matter of course; she is crossing fingers, is grateful for the work put into the agreement and hopes it solves many challenges. Facebook may block automated fetching; the timestamp is visible on hover.

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"has not yet been made public"

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Context source for contextAfter, not a source of the quotation. AP text as syndicated by WRAL (published 09:38 UTC, updated 13:28 UTC on 2026-09-19).

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"aftalen er lidt hemmelig indtil den er underskrevet"

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Context source for contextAfter, not a source of the quotation. TV 2 reports that at Radikale Venstre's national congress he repeated he was glad, and that although he had read the agreement he would not say more. The entry's video (transcribed locally, Whisper only) has him say he has read the agreement, calls it a good agreement, says it is somewhat secret until signed and that the Prime Minister should be allowed to say more, and answers a question on what increased military presence means with 'Det kan jeg desværre ikke'.

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"Så det har jeg ikke så mange kommentarer til."

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Entry in TV 2's live blog (the blog dates from 2025-01-06, so each entry has its own timestamp). The entry embeds an 89.8-second TV 2 video interview; the on-screen caption reads 'Martin Lidegaard, Erhvervs- og konkurrencekraft minister, Radikale Venstre'. Direct MP4 listed in the page's JSON-LD: https://bc-prod-vod.tv2s.dk/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6293768613001/49e1eec7-4a4d-480b-adea-deb72a1adeb9/b0294173-06d4-46c0-9103-e5f77c5673df/main.mp4 . The quotation follows the AUDIO, not TV 2's printed text, and is DI's English translation. Original Danish of the quoted span (spelling normalised): 'det må vi vente til aftalen bliver offentliggjort i næste uge. Så det har jeg ikke så mange kommentarer til.' It is the tail of a longer answer that begins at 01:13 ('Du får mig ikke ... ud i nærmere detaljer eller indhold på aftalen ...'); the opening words are not quoted because the models decode two of them inconsistently (a short word rendered 'nok' where TV 2 prints 'lokket', and three different renderings of the word for 'curiosity'). TV 2's printed line reads 'Du får mig ikke lokket ud i flere detaljer, det må vente til næste uge, så det har jeg ikke så mange kommentarer til.', a condensation, not a transcript. The question put to him, in the audio at 01:01-01:12, is TV 2's: according to Donald Trump the agreement gives the USA permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland, 'Hvad betyder det?'. Audio transcribed locally with mlx-whisper (large-v3-turbo, large-v3, medium); two strong models agree on the quoted span.

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"wrote on Instagram on Saturday morning"

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AP text as syndicated by WRAL (published 09:38 UTC, updated 13:28 UTC). AP gives its own English rendering of the same post and says he wrote it on Instagram on Saturday morning; its rendering drops the word 'long' and, in this copy, the red-lines clause, so the DI translation follows the Danish original. It also states the deal has not yet been made public.

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"lyder det i et opslag på Instagram"

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TV 2 says the words are from an Instagram post carrying a photograph from his early-2026 visit to Washington. Its printed quotation stops after 'NATO og Europa' and omits the red-lines clause, so it is not the source of the quoted span; it corroborates the wording and the time (07:43 UTC, before the LinkedIn copy). The live blog dates from 2025-01-06, so each entry has its own timestamp.

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"med respekt for Kongerigets røde linjer"

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The page returns HTTP 400 to a plain HTTP client; its text was read through the fetch tool and matches the LinkedIn text word for word (NATO capitalised). The fetch tool showed only a relative time ('5 hours ago' at about 13:10 UTC), no exact timestamp. Ritzau's report (published by Sermitsiaq and others) names Facebook as the platform.

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"med respekt for Kongerigets røde linjer"

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Opened directly; page metadata and JSON-LD give author Lars Løkke Rasmussen, datePublished 2026-09-19T08:14:20.919Z and the post text, and the Danish original below was checked as one contiguous span of that text. The same text is on his Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles; TV 2 saw the Instagram version by 07:43 UTC, so this LinkedIn copy is a later cross-post. The quotation is DI's English translation. Original Danish: 'Næste uge kan blive en god uge… For både Grønland, Danmark og USA. Hvor lang tids usikkerhed forhåbentlig erstattes af en bindende aftale, der styrker sikkerheden i Arktis og Nordatlanten og dermed også vores fælles sikkerhed i NATO og Europa - med respekt for Kongerigets røde linjer.' The posted text reads 'Hvor lang tids usikkerhed' (apparently 'Hvor' as a relative adverb continuing 'a good week'); it is translated as 'Where a long period of uncertainty ...'. The post ends with one more sentence, not quoted.

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"has not yet been made public"

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Context source for contextAfter, not a source of the quotation. AP text as syndicated by WRAL (published 09:38 UTC, updated 13:28 UTC on 2026-09-19). It states the deal has not yet been made public.

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"expected to sign the agreement at the UN General Assembly"

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Context source for contextBefore, not a source of the quotation. Official English version of the joint release; opened and read, and the Danish original on stm.dk was opened as well.

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"en vigtig og positiv nyhed"

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Entry in TV 2's long-running live blog (the blog itself dates from 2025-01-06, so each entry needs its own timestamp). It reports the X post and prints the same two sentences from it. Corroboration only, published about 90 minutes after the post.

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"For mig er det helt afgørende, at aftalen anerkender Kongerigets suverænitet"

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Post on his X account @troelslundp, read through api.fxtwitter.com (exact text, author, UTC timestamp; no edit flag); the x.com page itself was not opened. The quotation is DI's English translation of paragraphs 1-3. Original Danish: 'En vigtig og positiv nyhed for Grønland, Danmark og vores fælles sikkerhed [two flag emoji follow this sentence] Grønland, Danmark og USA er på vej mod en aftale, der skal styrke sikkerheden i Arktis og Nordatlanten. For mig er det helt afgørende, at aftalen anerkender Kongerigets suverænitet og grønlændernes ret til selv at bestemme deres fremtid. Det er grundlæggende principper, som vi skal stå fast på.' The same text appears on his Facebook page at 09:28 Copenhagen time according to the feed embedded on his website.

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Berlingske is paywalled. The rendered page shows the headline, standfirst, byline and the first two paragraphs (the quoted passage) to a non-subscriber. Published and modified timestamps are identical (2026-09-18T23:39:41Z) and were unchanged on a second fetch at about 9:25 AM EDT on 2026-09-19. Original Danish of the quoted passage: 'Det vildeste er ikke selve aftalen, som USA indgår med Grønland og Danmark. Det vildeste er, at det er lykkedes for ministre, diplomater og embedsfolk at sælge den til Trump som en stor personlig succes for præsidenten.' The English in the record is DI's translation. Not archived.

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Context only (supports contextBefore, not the quotation). Official English version of the release; it says the three governments are expected to sign at the UN General Assembly next week, subject to national parliamentary procedures, and that there are no further comments. The release is dated 9/18/2026 with no time shown; TV 2's live blog logged 'Statsministeriet bekræfter aftale' at 23.39 Copenhagen time.

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Context only (supports contextAfter, not the quotation). TV 2 news summary in the same live blog; its list of open questions says the agreement's exact content has not been published and that signing is expected next week in New York. Read on 2026-09-19 through the server-rendered no-JS page.

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TV 2's rolling live blog on the Greenland dispute; the page URL is dated 2025-01-06 and has run for about 20 months, so each entry must be dated by its own timestamp (here the entry's <time> tag, 2026-09-18T22:04:33.108Z, shown as 'Kl. 00.04'). Opened on 2026-09-19 at about 9:10 AM EDT through the server-rendered pages (the no-JS view and the entry permalink); the Danish text matched the extracted page text verbatim after whitespace normalization. The English in the record is a translation by DI ('suverænitetsafgivelse' rendered 'ceding of sovereignty'; 'surrender' would be a stronger rendering). Original Danish of the quoted passage: 'Men det afhænger fuldstændig af aftalens reelle indhold. Hvis den går så vidt, som Trump antyder, ligner det på flere stræk en suverænitetsafgivelse.' Not archived (Wayback lookups were throttled and this was read-only research).

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"The full text of the agreement has not been released"

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The report Angus linked (its headline matches the link card in his post). Opened directly on 2026-09-19 (HTTP 200) and read in full. Used for context only: it reports Trump's Truth Social words, statements by Frederiksen and Nielsen and unnamed State Department statements, none of which are Angus's words.

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"Looks like Denmark just knelt and kissed the gangster's ring."

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The speaker's own post, read verbatim from the Bluesky public API (getPostThread) and the bsky.app page's og:description; text is plain ASCII. After the quoted sentence the post asks whether the EU would have Canada's back if push comes to shove, says Canadians must count on themselves, and links the NBC News report listed below. The post does not name 'the gangster'; the referent (Trump) is inferred from the linked report. No archived copy exists (Wayback CDX returned no capture).

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"President Trump said the U.S. has reached a security deal with Greenland"

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The post Wolfsthal quoted, read through the Bluesky API as embedded in his post. Its link card (nyti.ms/4ArK4fA, which resolves to nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-greenland.html) was not opened because nytimes.com returned a bot-protection 403 that was not bypassed. Used only to show what Wolfsthal was responding to.

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"He could have just asked and gotten this result with less alliance damage."

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The speaker's own words, read verbatim from the Bluesky public API (getPostThread) and the bsky.app page's og:description, and matching a Wayback capture taken 2026-09-18 23:53:13 UTC. The post embeds a New York Times Bluesky post, whose words are the Times's, not Wolfsthal's; 'He' is read as Trump because the quoted post reports Trump's announcement. The post has no other text.

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"Trump did an incredible job negotiating for things we already had in Greenland."

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The speaker's own post, read verbatim from the Bluesky public API (app.bsky.feed.getPostThread) and the bsky.app page's og:description. It is a standalone one-sentence text post with no quoted post, link or image. It does not name the agreement, so its link to the 2026-09-18 announcement rests on timing (3 hours 52 minutes after Trump's Truth Social post), on its wording, and on its being the only Greenland post among his 94 most recent posts (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-19 02:16 UTC); replies and quote-posts by other users read it as about the agreement. The same sentence appears on his Threads account (@ronaldfilipkowski), read through a page reader. publicationDate is the US Eastern date; the UTC date is 2026-09-19. No archived copy exists (Wayback CDX returned no capture; capturing needs Internet Archive keys).

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"This seems to be largely a rebranding of the status quo to claim a win, much like Trump's first term USMCA replacing "Worst Trade Deal Ever" NAFTA he threatened to withdraw from with an only slightly updated agreement. Denmark always said the US could increase the military presence."

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The speaker's own post, read on 2026-09-19 through Bluesky's public API (getPostThread: createdAt 2026-09-18T21:42:23.719Z, indexedAt 21:42:24.060Z, DID did:plc:xl4emyddd5ci6gxa3x5c65dn) and on the public bsky.app page, and compared character for character with the quotation. The post quotes journalist Aaron Rupar's post of 5:22 p.m. ET (bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvt42eegvc27), whose image is a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social announcement. No archive copy was made in this research pass.

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"what he's describing sounds very much like his garbled recitation of the terms that have been in place since the Truman administration"

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Same account, read through the Bluesky public API on 2026-09-19 (createdAt 2026-09-18T23:06:19.515Z). Cited for the follow-up described in the context and to show what Craig's first post referred to; the quotation and label rest on the first post.

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"This is literally the status quo. We've had exactly this for decades."

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The speaker's own post, read on 2026-09-19 through Bluesky's public API (getPostThread: createdAt 2026-09-18T22:46:27.953Z, indexedAt 22:46:27.661Z, DID did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly) and on the public bsky.app page, and compared character for character with the quotation. The post quotes journalist Aaron Rupar's post of 5:22 p.m. ET (bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvt42eegvc27), whose image is a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social announcement; Craig's own reply 20 minutes later (next source) ties his remark to what Trump was describing. No archive copy was made in this research pass.

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"Joint Press Conference ... Chief of Defence of Denmark, General Michael Wiggers Hyldgaard"

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NATO's media advisory fixing the date, time, venue and participants of the press conference (14:00 CEST on Saturday 19 September 2026, which is 08:00 EDT, livestreamed). Used for date and role only; it contains no statement on the agreement.

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"jeg kan ikke kommentere yderligere på den"

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Danish original: 'I forhold til aftalen kan jeg sige, at vi byder aftalen velkommen, men jeg kan ikke kommentere yderligere på den, siger Michael Wiggers Hyldgaard.' Faithful translation: 'As regards the agreement, I can say that we welcome the agreement, but I cannot comment any further on it,' says Michael Wiggers Hyldgaard. This is TV 2's Danish rendering of an English answer and adds words ('kan jeg sige, at vi') that are not in the recording, so the record's quotation follows the recording. TV 2 also reports that the Wall Street Journal reporter asked for a comment on the agreement and its meaning for NATO's military perspective, that Cavo Dragone said the same, and that both highlighted the Arctic Sentry mission and continued cooperation with the U.S. military. The live blog has run since January 2025, so each entry's own timestamp is what counts.

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"welcome the agreement, but I can't comment any more on that"

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Official upload by NATO's International Military Staff (about 13:30 UTC on 19 September 2026) of the joint press conference of Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone and General Hyldgaard, scheduled for 14:00 CEST in NATO's media advisory. The audio was downloaded and the answer transcribed with Whisper (large-v3-turbo and large-v3, segment and word-timestamp modes) and cross-checked against two third-party rebroadcasts of the same event (DWS News dmOJ7EeOvXI at 13:51; GBS News _uJ3AkKEEyA at 42:28) and YouTube's auto-captions on those. Every decode gives 'With regards to the agreement ... welcome the agreement, but I can't comment any more on that'. A hesitation precedes 'welcome' and no subject pronoun is reliably audible (decodes variously give none, 'I', 'we' or 'we'll'), hence the [...] in the quotation. He spoke English, so the quotation is his own words, not a translation. Whisper misheard 'Arctic Sentry' as 'Arctic century'; corrected against TV 2 and NATO's Arctic security page.

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"help advance security, stability and cooperation in this vital region"

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Page metadata: first published 22:09 UTC on 18 September, modified 11:36 UTC on 19 September. Corroborates that a NATO spokesperson issued the statement. It gives no day and does not name the spokesperson.

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"this agreement will help advance security, stability, and cooperation in this vital region"

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Opened and read in full. CNBC first published the article on 18 September 2026 at 5:34 PM EDT and its page metadata shows a modification at 06:36 EDT on 19 September, when this statement was added; the date above is the version consulted, not the first publication date. CNBC names Hart and prints the statement in two quoted runs split by the attribution 'NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said in a statement'; the record joins the first two sentences and restores the period at the join. The statement has a third sentence (NATO continuing to do its part on Arctic security) that the record omits. No first-party NATO copy was found: the nato.int newsroom and the @NATO and @NATOpress X timelines carried none, so the statement appears to have been supplied to reporters.

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"Det er ikke muligt at få yderligere kommentarer på nuværende tidspunkt, afslutter statsministeriet."

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Entry in TV 2’s long-running live blog “Kampen om Grønlands fremtid”; the blog’s URL date (2025-01-06) is its start date, and this entry’s own timestamp comes from the page’s structured data. It reports the release’s closing line as the Prime Minister’s Office closing its statement. Translation (DI's): “It is not possible to get further comments at this time, the Prime Minister’s Office concludes.”

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"There are no further comments at this time."

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The Government of Greenland’s own publication of the same release, sent by the Chairman’s Department (Formandens Departement), with the Danish text followed by an English block. Fetched on 2026-09-19; both the Danish and the English closing sentences match the Prime Minister’s Office pages exactly. Page metadata gives og:updated_time 2026-09-18T22:39:52Z. Together with KNR’s description of a “fælles pressemeddelelse” from Formandens Departement and Statsministeriet, it shows the release was issued jointly.

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"Det vil ikke være muligt at få yderligere kommentarer på nuværende tidspunkt."

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Danish original of the same release, dated 18.09.2026 (the older URL without “/2026/” redirects here with HTTP 301). Fetched on 2026-09-19; the Danish sentence matched exactly. The release closes by listing the Government of Greenland’s communications department and the Prime Minister’s Office press line as contacts for further information.

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"There are no further comments at this time."

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Official English version of the joint press release, dated 9/18/2026, on the Prime Minister’s Office’s English site. Fetched directly on 2026-09-19 (HTTP 200); the sentence matched the page text exactly. The Danish original, “Det vil ikke være muligt at få yderligere kommentarer på nuværende tidspunkt”, reads literally “It will not be possible to obtain further comments at this time”; it is a standard closing formula, not an answer to a question. The release does not mention President Trump.

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"We have now reached a point where an agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the United States is within reach. An agreement that recognizes Greenland’s position and the right to self-determination."

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Egede’s own Facebook post in three blocks separated by “//”: Greenlandic, Danish, English. The quotation is the post’s own English block, copied exactly (curly apostrophe and en dash as posted); DI did not translate it. Danish block: “Vi er nu nået dertil, hvor en aftale mellem Grønland, Danmark og USA er inden for rækkevidde. En aftale, der anerkender Grønlands position og selvbestemmelses ret. Styrker samarbejdet mellem vores tre lande. En løsning, der er god for alle parter – og som styrker sikkerheden for USA, Grønland og hele den vestlige alliance.” Facebook blocks automated fetches, so the post was read in a web browser on 2026-09-19 (public view; a script confirmed the English and Danish strings match exactly and that the post carries no “Edited” marker). Timestamp tooltip: Friday 18 September 2026, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC). The page bio says he leads Inuit Ataqatigiit and that the profile is “not run as a minister” (“Profilen føres ikke som minister”). Ritzau and TV 2 quote the Danish block without “og selvbestemmelses ret”; the post itself contains it.

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"Key details of the agreement have not been made public"

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Reuters wire report syndicated by Yahoo News Singapore, published 2026-09-19 11:46 UTC. Cited only for the statement that key details of the agreement had not been made public. It also gives an English rendering of Nielsen’s Facebook line (“The agreement recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our Kingdom and the right of the Greenlandic people to self-determination”) and says he posted “on Saturday”; the post is dated Friday 18 September (Eastern) on Facebook. The headline is the reporters’ framing.

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"TV 2 har rakt ud til Jens-Frederik Nielsen, som over for os ikke har nogen kommentar til sagen på nuværende tidspunkt."

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Entry in TV 2’s long-running live blog “Kampen om Grønlands fremtid”; the blog’s URL date (2025-01-06) is its start date, and this entry’s own timestamp comes from the page’s structured data. The entry quotes the same paragraph of the joint release and then reports the sentence excerpted. Translation (DI's): “TV 2 has reached out to Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who has no comment to us on the matter at present.”

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"Aftalen anerkender vores Kongerigets suverænitet og territoriale integritet og det grønlandske folks ret til selvbestemmelse."

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A separate statement from the quoted release text, cited only for the contextAfter sentence, not for the exact quotation. Nielsen’s own post on his politician page: Greenlandic text, then “//”, then Danish. Danish text as posted: “Jeg er glad på Grønlands vegne og at vi er ved at være i mål med en aftale. En aftale der gavner, ikke kun vores alle sammens sikkerhed, men også den fortsatte udvikling her i landet. Aftalen anerkender vores Kongerigets suverænitet og territoriale integritet og det grønlandske folks ret til selvbestemmelse.” (the post reads “vores Kongerigets”). DI's translation: “I am glad on Greenland’s behalf and that we are close to reaching an agreement. An agreement that benefits not only all of our security but also the continued development here in the country. The agreement recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our Kingdom and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination.” The Greenlandic text was not translated. Facebook blocks automated fetches, so the post was read in a web browser on 2026-09-19; its timestamp tooltip reads Friday 18 September 2026, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC), which is 00:01 on Saturday in Copenhagen, the reason Reuters says he posted “on Saturday”. KNR and Sermitsiaq.AG print the same Danish text.

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"The agreement recognizes Greenland’s interests and our place in the international cooperation."

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The Government of Greenland’s own publication of the same release, sent by the Chairman’s Department (Formandens Departement); the Danish text is followed by an English block. Fetched on 2026-09-19; page metadata gives og:updated_time 2026-09-18T22:39:52Z. Its English block reads “It is joyous that we are about to make an agreement …” for Nielsen’s first sentence (the Prime Minister’s Office’s English page says “encouraging”; the Danish is “glædeligt”). Together with the Prime Minister’s Office copy and KNR’s description of a “fælles pressemeddelelse”, it shows the release was issued jointly by the two governments.

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"Det er glædeligt, at vi er ved at indgå en aftale, der sikrer og styrker sikkerheden for Grønland, Kongeriget Danmark, USA og den vestlige alliance."

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Danish original of the same release, dated 18.09.2026 (the older URL without “/2026/” redirects here with HTTP 301). Fetched on 2026-09-19 and the Danish wording matched exactly. The paragraph immediately above the quotation reads: “Når aftalen er underskrevet vil den skulle igennem de nødvendige parlamentariske procedurer for at træde i kraft.” (English: after signature the agreement must go through the necessary parliamentary procedures to enter into force.)

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"It is encouraging that we are about to make an agreement that will ensure and strengthen the security of Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark, the United States, and the Western Alliance."

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Official English version of the joint press release, dated 9/18/2026, on the Prime Minister’s Office’s English site; the release states no time of day. Fetched directly on 2026-09-19 (HTTP 200) and the full quotation matched the page text exactly after normalising curly quotation marks. Danish original: “Det er glædeligt, at vi er ved at indgå en aftale, der sikrer og styrker sikkerheden for Grønland, Kongeriget Danmark, USA og den vestlige alliance. Aftalen anerkender Grønlands interesser og vores plads i det internationale samarbejde. Det er til gavn for os alle.” The English page renders “glædeligt” as “encouraging”; the Government of Greenland’s English block on naalakkersuisut.gl renders it “joyous”. The paragraph immediately above the quotation says: “Following signature, the agreement will enter into force subject to the necessary national parliamentary procedures.”

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"No text of the agreement has been released."

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Read via curl; JSON-LD shows published 2026-09-18 22:09 UTC and last modified 2026-09-19 11:36 UTC (7:36 AM EDT). The on-page headline is the one given here; the page title tag and original headline read 'US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's security after Trump threats'. BBC calls the document a 'joint statement' with Greenland's premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen (formal title: Chairman of Naalakkersuisut) and quotes its own translation of the Danish ('pleased that there is a prospect of a good agreement'). Used for the joint nature of the statement and for the report that no text has been released.

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"Og en aftale, der samtidig anerkender Kongerigets suverænitet og territoriale integritet og det grønlandske folks ret til selvbestemmelse."

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Danish original of the same release (dated 18.09.2026), opened via curl. It is the original-language text behind the official English version; the Danish wording of the full passage is given in the note on the English source. The English of the record is the government's own English version, not an independent translation. KNR, Sermitsiaq and DR quote the same Danish wording.

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"An agreement which strengthens our common security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic Area and therefore is great for NATO and Europe as well. And an agreement which at the same time recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination."

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Official English version of the joint press release, hosted by the Danish Prime Minister's Office; the page shows the date 9/18/2026 but no time of day. The quotation is a contiguous substring of the English text. Danish original of the same passage (stm.dk, dated 18.09.2026): 'Jeg er glad for, at der er udsigt til en god aftale for Grønland, Kongeriget Danmark og USA. En aftale, der styrker vores fælles sikkerhed i Arktis og det nordatlantiske område og dermed også er god for NATO og Europa. Og en aftale, der samtidig anerkender Kongerigets suverænitet og territoriale integritet og det grønlandske folks ret til selvbestemmelse.' The Danish opening means 'I am glad that there is the prospect of a good agreement', whereas the official English says 'we are about to make a great agreement'; the quotation follows the official English version. BBC, CBS and ABC print their own English translations of the Danish. The release's lead says the three governments are expected to sign the agreement at the UN General Assembly next week and that it then enters into force subject to the necessary national parliamentary procedures; that lead is not Frederiksen's own quoted wording.

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"This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland."

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Read via curl; JSON-LD shows published 2026-09-18 22:37 UTC and last modified 2026-09-19 08:15 UTC. NBC quotes the last two sentences of Rubio's statement and attributes them to 'a statement' by Rubio, and says the agreement's full text has not been released. Used as independent corroboration of the wording and of the unpublished text.

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"This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people"

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Fox News Digital exclusive; Rubio is quoted as telling Fox News Digital. Read via curl; JSON-LD datePublished and dateModified are both 2026-09-18T17:19:56-04:00. The statement is printed in two pairs of sentences separated by an attribution tag and by an embedded related-link headline ('DENMARK VOWS TO DEFEND GREENLAND AFTER TRUMP REITERATES US SHOULD CONTROL TERRITORY'), which is not part of the statement. A further quotation attributed to Rubio in this article, that Denmark and Greenland lack the financial means to defend Greenland, appears only in Fox after a paragraph sourced to 'a second official', is not in his X post or in NBC's or the BBC's copies of his statement, and is not used.

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"The full text of the agreement has not been released"

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Read via curl; JSON-LD shows published 2026-09-18 22:37 UTC (6:37 PM EDT) and last modified 2026-09-19 08:15 UTC (4:15 AM EDT). Used for three statements: Greenland's government took part in negotiations alongside Denmark and the U.S.; Denmark said the agreement is expected to be signed next week in connection with the UN General Assembly; the full text had not been released. The BBC page (modified 7:36 AM EDT) and TV 2's live blog on the morning of September 19 also say the text is unpublished.

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"Trump had repeatedly argued that control of Greenland was necessary for U.S. national security"

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Fox News Digital exclusive. Read via curl; the page's JSON-LD datePublished and dateModified are both 2026-09-18T17:19:56-04:00, so the text was not revised after publication. Used only for its publication time, for Rubio's statement and for the sentence about Trump's earlier arguments. The article's account of the agreement's terms rests on unnamed U.S. officials and is not relied on here.

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"that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States!"

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Original post on Truth Social (@realDonaldTrump). Read on the trumpstruth.org archive (status 41803), which reproduces the full text, shows the original post date 'Friday, September 18, 2026, 05:18 pm EDT', the Truth Social status ID 117294126158197822 and the original URL, and records a capture at 7:15 AM EDT on September 19. truthsocial.com itself returns a Cloudflare 403 to automated requests and was not opened. The post ID decodes to 21:18:49 UTC, which matches 5:18 PM EDT. The identical text was posted on X at 8:12 PM EDT (next source). After the quoted span the post adds that from now on no U.S. adversary can have a base, military presence or sensitive investments in Greenland without the United States' 'express written approval', and calls the deal an 'Infinite Life' Agreement; those sentences are outside the quotation but in the same post.

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NPR Morning Edition report, originally published January 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM ET and updated at 3:33 PM ET, read in full on npr.org. It carries the date of Trump's announcement of a framework after talks with NATO's Rutte.

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"The 1951 U.S.-Danish Agreement Concerning the Defense of Greenland (with 2004 amendments) has facilitated the U.S. military presence in Greenland and provides avenues to expand it."

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Nonpartisan congressional research product dated January 22, 2026, read as the PDF served by congress.gov. Used for the 2004 amendments to the 1951 agreement, the earlier rhetoric about U.S. control and the January 2026 sequence. It says Trump said he and Rutte “discussed a possible” framework, while CBS News says he announced they “had formed” one; the timeline entry uses the wording both support.

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"shall remain in effect for the duration of the North Atlantic Treaty"

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1951 treaty text as reproduced by the Avalon Project from State Department publication 6446 (TIAS 2292; 2 UST 1485). It carries the 1951 text only; it does not include later amendments, which the Congressional Research Service source describes as made in 2004 and which were not opened.

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"Både præsident Donald Trump, statsminister Mette Frederiksen (S) og formand for Naalakkersuisut, Jens-Frederik Nielsen skal underskrive aftalen."

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Danish-language report, published 05:24 UTC (07:24 Copenhagen time) on September 19, 2026 per page metadata. English rendering of the excerpt (DI’s translation): President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and the chairman of Naalakkersuisut, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, are to sign the agreement. The signatories come from DR’s unnamed sources and are not stated in the joint release.

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"De tre regeringer ventes at underskrive aftalen i næste uge i forbindelse med FN’s Generalforsamling."

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Danish original, dated 18.09.2026. English rendering of the excerpt (DI’s translation): The three governments are expected to sign the agreement next week in connection with the UN General Assembly. Frederiksen’s Danish wording is “Jeg er glad for, at der er udsigt til en god aftale” (I am glad that there is a prospect of a good agreement); the official English version renders it “I am glad that we are about to make a great agreement.”

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"The three governments are expected to sign the agreement at the UN General Assembly."

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Official English version on english.stm.dk, dated 9/18/2026; the Danish original (separate source) is dated 18.09.2026. Frederiksen’s English “a great agreement” renders the Danish “udsigt til en god aftale” (the prospect of a good agreement); Nielsen’s English “It is encouraging” renders the Danish “Det er glædeligt.” The page carries a date only, not a time.

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"No text of the agreement has been released."

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Published September 18 and updated September 19, 2026 (page metadata: 11:36 UTC). Reports that an unnamed State Department official outlined the deal and that it is unclear how it differs from the 1951 agreement without the official text. The BBC renders Frederiksen’s Danish wording as “a prospect of a good agreement.”

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"expected to be signed in New York City on Tuesday"

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Published 7:15 PM EDT and updated 8:58 PM EDT on September 18, 2026 per page metadata. The signing date and the State Department official’s description are attributed to unnamed U.S. officials, and the article does not say it saw the agreement. Jennifer Jacobs and Olivia Gazis are credited as contributors.

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"This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland."

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Read through the api.fxtwitter.com status endpoint. The post quotes Trump’s X repost and carries the same three statements Fox News Digital printed at 5:19 PM EDT; it does not contain the two Fox-only lines about Denmark’s and Greenland’s means to defend Greenland.

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"This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland."

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Fox News Digital exclusive read in full; page metadata gives 2026-09-18T17:19:58-04:00. The description of the terms comes from a senior U.S. official who is not named; Rubio’s statement is quoted directly. A further line attributed to Rubio, about Denmark and Greenland lacking the means to defend Greenland, is printed near the end of this article after a paragraph sourced to a second unnamed official. It is not in Rubio’s own X post or in the CBS, NBC, BBC or NPR (AP) reports read, so it is treated as single-source and is not used here.

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"complete and permanent American security control over Greenland"

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Read through the api.fxtwitter.com status endpoint. The post carries a photo that was not reviewed; only the text was read. The wording differs from Trump’s own post.

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"This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end!"

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Read through the api.fxtwitter.com status endpoint. The text is identical, after normalizing quotation marks and whitespace, to the 5:18 PM EDT Truth Social post and adds no wording.