The curious link between Trump’s Greenland desires and Epstein Island

President Donald Trump has sparked ever more controversy in recent days with his push to acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Over the weekend it came to light that he sent what is being called a “bonkers” letter to the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, which not so subtly threatened armed confrontation if the United States wasn’t given “Complete and Total Control” of the island.

That followed his threat to slap a 10% tariff, starting 1 February, on goods from eight European nations that have sent contingents of troops to defend the sovereignty of Greenland. Trump said that levy will increase to 25% on 1 June and stay in place until the U.S. has full ownership of Greenland.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, he posted on Truth Social an AI-generated photo of himself, flanked by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, planting a US flag in the ground next to a sign reading “Greenland – US Territory Est 2026.”

All of this, along with numerous other actions by Trump, have some questioning his mental state and calls for his administration to invoke the 25^th Amendment. However, others have been pointing out that Trump’s actions have a far simpler impetus, the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Congress passed a law forcing the Department of Justice to release in December.

The agency is still holding on to over 90% of the material related to Trump’s longtime friend, the disgraced financier who raped and trafficked underage girls.

Epstein Island and Greenland have a curious link

One of the locations where Epstein carried out his heinous crimes was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, specifically on his private island of Little St James. It is located off the southeast coast of Saint Thomas, which, along with Saint Croix and Saint John, all have a curious connection with Greenland.

Trump has questioned why Denmark has sovereignty over the ice covered island located off the east coast of North America just because “they had a boat land there 500 years ago," not seeing the irony in that statement. In his letter to Støre, he claims that “there are no written documents” for Denmark’s “right of ownership.”

But alas, there are written documents like the Convention Between the United States and Denmark for the Cession of the Danish West Indies, which was signed by the U.S. government.

In 1916, with World War I raging in Europe, the U.S. was concerned that Germany may try to take what were then called the Danish West Indies. The U.S. agreed to pay Denmark $25 million for “all territory asserted or claimed by Denmark in the West Indies, including the islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, together with the adjacent islands and rocks,” thus including Epstein’s island.

Additionally, the convention said that “the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.” In simple terms, the U.S. recognized Denmark’s sovereignty over the whole of Greenland in perpetuity.

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