Donald Trump says the Greenland agreement gives the U.S. permanent control over security and all other needs
President of the United States, in a post on his Truth Social account, cross-posted to his X account
“I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, 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! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America.”
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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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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.
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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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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.
Before the quotation
Trump had repeatedly argued that control of Greenland was necessary for U.S. national security, and Greenland's government had been taking part in negotiations with Denmark and the United States on the island's security. The post was published at 5:18 PM EDT on Friday, September 18, 2026.
After the quotation
Fox News Digital published Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement and a senior U.S. official's description of the agreement at 5:19 PM EDT. Later on Friday, Frederiksen and Greenland's leaders issued statements, Denmark said the agreement is expected to be signed the following week in connection with the UN General Assembly, and NBC News reported that its full text had not been released.
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Case context: Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
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Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is Trump's own description, in this post, of the not-yet-signed agreement as giving the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. In the quoted passage Trump states that description himself, says the United States will forever have the complete ability to do what is necessary there, and presents the agreement as a completed result at no cost to the United States, which affirms and endorses the deal as he characterizes it. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional, because the full post also says the United States will work with the people of Greenland and calls the solution good for Denmark, Greenland and allies. That loses because those lines add to the endorsement instead of qualifying it, and the post states no condition or reservation.
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Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
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