Jim Banks says the agreement with Denmark will let the U.S. and its allies secure Greenland for generations
Jim BanksU.S. Senator for Indiana, on his official X account
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) posted on X that President Trump "proved the foreign policy establishment wrong again" and that the agreement with Denmark ensures the United States and its allies can secure Greenland and the High North against adversaries "for generations to come." His post quotes a White House Rapid Response post that shows an image of Trump's announcement.
“They said it couldn’t be done, but @POTUS just proved the foreign policy establishment wrong again. 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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Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
On September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he said gives the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland.” Danish and Greenlandic officials initially described an expected agreement and emphasized sovereignty and self-determination. On September 22, the White House published an agreement text dated that day. It reaffirms Denmark’s sovereignty and Greenland’s right to self-determination; provides for U.S. defense areas and access under stated procedures; bars non-NATO states from establishing military installations unless the parties agree otherwise; and has no end date. The text says it enters into force only after diplomatic notice of necessary parliamentary procedures. The dispute remains over how Trump’s “permanent control” description compares with the document’s terms.
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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. The post is timestamped 21:59:35 UTC and shows no edits. We did not save an archive copy of the post.
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Context source for the announcement that prompted the statement; it records no statement by the speaker of this event. The full text and the 5:18 PM EDT timestamp (21:18:49 UTC) are cited from the trumpstruth.org archive page for the same post ID (117294126158197822, status 41803), which links to the original. We could not read the original post on Truth Social. 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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Context source only; it records no statement by the speaker of this event. 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. As of September 19, 2026, we found no Greenland text or fact sheet on the State Department press-releases list or the White House briefings and fact-sheets lists.
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At 5:18 PM EDT on September 18, 2026, President Trump announced on Truth Social an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he said gives the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. The White House Rapid Response account posted an image of that announcement at 5:23 PM EDT, and Banks quoted it at 5:59 PM EDT.
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In an article updated at 8:16 AM EDT on September 19, CNN reported that the official text of the agreement had not been released and that the United States, Greenland and Denmark were expected to sign it the following week at the UN General Assembly, according to the Danish Prime Minister's Office.
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Banks calls the agreement "historic," says Trump "proved the foreign policy establishment wrong again," and says it ensures the United States and its allies can secure Greenland and the High North against adversaries "for generations to come," which approves the agreement and describes its effect as long-lasting, in line with Trump's account. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because Banks speaks of the United States and "our allies" securing Greenland rather than repeating "permanent control." That loses because he does not dispute or reframe Trump's description; he endorses the agreement without qualification.
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