‘Red, White and Blueland?’ Republican unveils bill to rename Greenland
Georgia Representative Buddy Carter hopes to assist the U.S.’s ‘negotiator-in-chief’ with his plans to acquire the Arctic island
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Your support makes all the difference.A GOP congressman has announced new legislation to bolster Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland, while also giving the autonomous Danish territory a new name: “Red, White, and Blueland.”
The president has recently escalated calls to purchase Greenland for national security purposes, despite Denmark insisting the Arctic island is not for sale.
On Tuesday, Georgia Representative Buddy Carter unveiled the Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 to apparently help America’s “negotiator-in-chief” acquire the region.
Giving a six-month deadline, the proposed bill would direct the secretary of the interior team to ensure federal paperwork gets updated to the Stars and Stripes-inspired new name.
“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland,” Carter said in a statement to the New York Post.
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our negotiator-in-chief inks this monumental deal.”
The legislation would first have to be assigned to a committee for study before it is decided whether the bill is passed on to the lower chamber to vote on.
Since December, Trump has floated the idea of acquiring Greenland. He even sent his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. to the island last month in a bizarre publicity stunt.
A mere 6 percent of Greenlanders want their nation to join the U.S., according to a poll last month.
The survey commissioned by Danish newspaper of record, Berlingske, and the Greenlandic daily Sermitsiaq suggests that 85 percent of those residing in the Danish territory do not want to become a part of the U.S.
Just six percent were in favor of joining and nine percent had been left undecided, according to the poll.
In a tongue-in-cheek retaliatory campaign called “Denmarkification,” Danish citizens are seeking to crowdfund $1 trillion to buy the U.S. state of California.
“New Denmark,” as the campaign website said the Golden State would be called, would see its world-famous theme park Disneyland rebranded as “Hans Christian Andersenland”.
It comes as Gulf of Mexico was renamed as the “Gulf of America” on Google Maps on Monday.
The oceanic basin’s rebrand – which is shared across the U.S., Mexico and Cuba – was visible across the nation on Monday. Both names appear to Google Maps users outside of the country while, in Mexico, it remains the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” on his first day in office on January 20 after insisting last month that the the gulf should celebrate the U.S. rather than Mexico.
The Independent has contacted Carter for more information.
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