Anders Lomholt says the Greenland deal could resemble a ceding of sovereignty if it goes as far as Trump suggests
Defense correspondent at TV 2 (Denmark), in a signed 'Lynanalyse' (flash analysis) entry in TV 2's live blog 'Kampen om Grønlands fremtid'
“But it depends entirely on the agreement's actual content. If it goes as far as Trump suggests, it looks in several respects like a ceding of sovereignty.”
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Analysis
About this source
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).
Reporting
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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.
Original text
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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.
Official statement
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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.
Before the quotation
Less than an hour earlier, at 5:18 PM EDT, President Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States had entered into an agreement with Denmark and Greenland giving it permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. Earlier that evening, the Danish Prime Minister's Office issued a release with statements from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland's government chair Jens-Frederik Nielsen saying the three governments were expected to sign an agreement the following week; the agreement text had not been published.
After the quotation
The next morning (06.50 Copenhagen time), TV 2's live blog listed the agreement's exact content among the questions still unanswered, saying it had not been made public, and reported that signing was expected the following week in New York.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is President Trump's 18 September 2026 Truth Social description of a not-yet-signed, unpublished U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement as giving the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. Lomholt says reaching an agreement looks on its face like a big diplomatic win, that this depends entirely on its actual content, and that if it goes as far as Trump suggests it would in several respects resemble a ceding of sovereignty; he neither accepts nor rejects Trump's description and says the answer awaits the text. The closest competing label is condemns, because he calls the version Trump suggests, if accurate, a ceding of sovereignty. That loses because the criticism is expressly conditional, sits beside his description of the agreement as possibly a big win for diplomacy, and he closes by saying the outcome cannot be known until the agreement becomes a reality.
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Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
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