An American flag superimposed over a map of Greenland. That’s the image, accompanied by a single ominous word, “SOON,” that Katie Miller shared to social media Saturday. Katie Miller is married to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump‘s deputy chief of staff for policy as well as a national security advisor, and her post read as something of a threat. Greenland, it implies, is next on the US expansionist wish list. Following the arrest of Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, who are now appearing before US courts, Trump has declared his intention to “take control” of the country. And the American president’s entourage implied that the country’s expansionist ambitions could therefore continue on to Greenland, a territory four times the physical size of France, but with a population of just 57,000, making it the world’s least densely populated country.
But one Icelandic woman has called on Greenlanders, who are technically Danish citizens, to declare their independence in order to resist American imperialism as well as Danish government control. If we may have your attention, Björk has something to say.
On Twitter, the singer wished the country’s citizens “good luck in their fight for independence.”
“Icelanders are extremely relieved to have succeeded in freeing themselves from the Danes in 1944, we didn’t lose our language (my children would be speaking Danish now) and I burst with sympathy for Greenlanders,” she wrote on Monday.
The singer went on to talk about the history of “forced contraception, where 4,500 girls as young as 12 got IUD without their knowledge between 1966 and 1970,” in Greenland, linking to news articles on the history, and pointing to recent familial separations as proof that “still today the Danish are treating Greenlanders like they are second class humans.”
“Colonialism has repeatedly given me horror chills up my back, and the chance that my fellow Greenlanders might go from one cruel colonizer to another is too brutal to even imagine,” she continued. “Dear Greenlanders, declare your independence,” she urged, adding a map of her own, this one Greenland drenched with its own flag.
“Make Greenland great again!”
While he seems intent on riding the success of his stunt in Venezuela to keep the momentum going, this isn’t the first time Trump has given the Danish territory the eye. In 2019, during his first term in office, the American president proposed buying Greenland, but was rebuffed by Denmark. At the end of 2024, when he wanted to regain control of the Panama Canal and make Canada the 51st U.S. state, Donald Trump had already asserted it an “absolute necessity” to take control of Greenland. A few days later, his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland with “my reps,” in the words of his father. Trump told Greenlanders, “we’re going to treat you well.”
