A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republican</a> has unveiled a bill that would pave the way for President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to make a deal for the acquisition of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greenland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenland</a> for the United States.
The legislation from Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) comes after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-u-s-ownership-and-control-of-greenland-is-an-absolute-necessity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revived</a> talk about how the U.S. should take control of Greenland, a territory <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-greenland-will-benefit-tremendously-if-and-when-it-becomes-part-of-our-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controlled</a> by Denmark, for &#8220;the purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the world.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/make-greenland-great-again-trumps-house-gop-allies-unveil-bill-authorize-countrys-purchase" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> a copy of the bill, labeled the &#8220;Make Greenland Great Again Act,&#8221; following a social media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-greenland-will-benefit-tremendously-if-and-when-it-becomes-part-of-our-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> from Trump that employed the phrase. The bill would &#8220;authorize the President to seek to enter into negotiations with the Kingdom of Denmark to secure the acquisition of Greenland by the United States.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/denmark-reportedly-open-to-talks-with-trump-on-future-of-greenland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Denmark Reportedly Open To Talks With Trump On Future Of Greenland</a>
If enacted, the bill would allow the president to begin talks with Denmark at 12:01 p.m. EST on January 20, 2025, which would be one minute after Trump is sworn into office for his second term. &#8220;Not later than 5 calendar days after reaching an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees the agreement, including all related materials and annexes,&#8221; the bill says.
The bill states the period for congressional review for any deal would be 60 calendar days from the date on which the president transmits the agreement to the appropriate committees, identified as the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. &#8220;If no joint resolution of disapproval is enacted by Congress within the 60-calendar day period, the agreement&#8221; for entering negotiations described in the legislation &#8220;shall be in effect and take the full force of law,&#8221; the bill says.
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&#8220;American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, and House Republicans are ready to help President Trump deliver for the American people,&#8221; Ogles said in a <a href="https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1878844481304228250" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X sharing the Fox News report, which noted that his bill has several GOP co-sponsors.
The news follows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-offer-bills-to-realize-trumps-ideas-for-gulf-of-america-and-taking-back-panama-canal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislative offerings</a> from House Republicans that would give life to some of Trump&#8217;s other stated foreign policy ambitions, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-u-s-to-change-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renaming</a> the Gulf of Mexico the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-former-trump-official-explains-why-trump-may-take-panama-canal-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking back</a> the Panama Canal.

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Denmark is reportedly open to discussing a more prominent role for the United States in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greenland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenland</a> short of a wholly selling the island.
The Danish government is trying to avoid a public dispute with the incoming Trump administration over the future of Greenland. While Denmark is against selling Greenland to the U.S., Danish officials have sent messages to Trump officials offering discussion on a new partnership in Greenland’s future, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/denmark-response-trump-greenland-threat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
The messages were sent in response to Trump’s expressed willingness to purchase Greenland outright. The president-elect has said that the United States has major national security interests in Greenland and that the island is a key to pushing back against Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic, an issue that will grow more prominent as Arctic ice melts and opens and expands new lanes for shipping.
“Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-greenland-will-benefit-tremendously-if-and-when-it-becomes-part-of-our-nation">said</a> in a recent post on Truth Social. “We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump first raised a potential purchase of Greenland during his first term, though the suggestion was largely dismissed. Trump’s renewed interest in purchasing the island appears to be a much more serious proposal, however, and that has worried Danish officials who do not want to sell the island nor fight publicly with the Trump administration over it.
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Danish officials grew more worried after Trump did not rule out using the U.S. military to protect U.S. security interests on Greenland.
Danish leaders have sent messages to the president-elect through intermediaries pitching the case that the U.S. and Danish governments can reach a new agreement on Greenland that will satisfy Trump’s concerns over national security, but stop short of a full sale of the island.
On Friday, top leaders in Denmark and Greenland met in Copenhagen to discuss Trump’s offer to buy Greenland. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a press conference afterward that she had requested a meeting with the president-elect. Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said that Greenland should be an independent nation.
“Greenland is for the Greenlandic people. We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic,” Egede said.

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President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday night during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. needed to take control of Greenland &#8220;very badly&#8221; for national security.
Trump made the remarks after he has reignited the issue in recent weeks.
When asked by a reporter how much it would cost for the U.S. to purchase Greenland from Denmark, Trump said, &#8220;Well, maybe no price tag.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, we&#8217;re gonna have to see what happens, because Denmark, we need this for national security,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We need Greenland very badly. You look at the Russian ships, the Chinese ships, they&#8217;re all over the place. They&#8217;re surrounding. Now they have for a long time, that&#8217;s a lane, but we need that for national security.&#8221;
&#8220;So I don&#8217;t know that Denmark has any right, title, and interest, and we&#8217;re going to find that out,&#8221; he continued.
Trump said that Denmark understandably does not want to give up the island, but it will pay a price if it doesn&#8217;t.
&#8220;Now Denmark maybe doesn&#8217;t like it, but then we can&#8217;t be too happy with Denmark,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And maybe things have to happen with respect to Denmark having to do with tariffs.&#8221;
Trump said he believes Denmark has &#8220;to do this I think for the free world.&#8221;
&#8220;We need that to protect the free world, it’s very important, and getting more important every year,&#8221; he continued.
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TRUMP: &#8220;The people of Greenland would love to become the state of the United States of America&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Y7rstiylNQ">pic.twitter.com/Y7rstiylNQ</a>
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Trump on Tuesday repeatedly refused to rule out using the U.S. military to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal when asked if he could “assure the world” that he would not “use military or economic coercion” to acquire the two areas.
“No,” Trump said. “I can’t assure you, you’re talking about Panama and Greenland. No, I can’t assure you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military.”
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The reporter then asked whether Trump would commit to not using the military.
“I’m not going to commit to that,” Trump said. “No, it might be that you’ll have to do something.”
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Donald Trump just gave one of the greatest press conferences in American history. He talked more in this press conference than Joe Biden has for four years. He spoke quite coherently and cogently.
The press conference was a doozy. It was wonderful in so many ways.
Trump is going to instruct the federal government to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and I am here for it. It is fantastic. If you look at a map, about 65% of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is in America.
Who&#8217;s going to stop us from renaming it? Mexico? Sure. They can’t even balance the budget or stop the cartels from running their country.
But that&#8217;s not the only item on the Manifest Destiny Agenda for the Trump administration that I love.
I love that Trump has been talking about making Canada the 51st state. I know that Justin Trudeau is out there tweeting how it&#8217;ll never be the 51st state, but he has no say in the matter because when we invade, he will be shipped to work the Panama Canal.
More America is better. Greenland, a vital place territorially, is on Trump’s list. Why not? The United States spends money on the military defense of Greenland, and we have military bases in Greenland. We use Greenland’s northern border in order to protect Arctic shipping. Greenland is very important because as ice melts in the Arctic Circle, there will be brand-new North Atlantic shipping lanes which have drawn interest from Russia and China. Either Russia and China are going to have an impact there, or we are. Arctic shipping has increased, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/01/08/why-does-trump-want-to-buy-greenland-heres-what-to-know-as-don-jr-arrives-on-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>, 37% over the past decade.
In addition, Greenland is part of the strategically important Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, a choke point that Russian ships actually have to transit to travel from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic.
And Greenland has a plethora of untapped mineral resources. Those include copper, iron ore, diamonds, and oil. We should purchase Greenland.
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The people of Greenland have been talking about independence for a very long time. If that were to happen, they would realign with the United States in a heartbeat. First of all, it&#8217;s better to live in the United States than it is to live in a principality of Denmark. Second, as far as security concerns to defend those Arctic Straits against Russia and China, do you think Denmark is going to go up against the Russians or the Chinese?
If that is a matter of national security for the United States, why not sell Greenland to the United States if you are Denmark?
Back in 1775, Denmark and Norway declared Greenland a colony. Greenland was then formally transferred from Norway to Denmark by a treaty in 1814. Denmark started trying to colonize the island in the 1880s.
But before the 1880s, a huge chunk was actually discovered by Americans. Charles Francis Hall saw northwest Greenland during the Polaris expedition, which was from 1871 to 1873. And another explorer named Robert Peary actually claimed much of the North.
The only reason that Denmark has any claim whatsoever to Greenland, as far as the United States is concerned, is because when the United States was interested in purchasing the Danish West Indies during World War I, Denmark required the U.S. to recognize its claim over the whole island of Greenland.
At the time, Peary, the explorer who discovered and claimed much of it, opposed the U.S. giving up the claim because the Monroe Doctrine said there should be no European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
He correctly suggested that we should have purchased the island outright. And then, as it turned out, we had to defend it anyway because in the early 1940s, Denmark had been conquered by the Nazis. Once that happened, the United States basically had to defend Greenland as its own principality because it was the only known significant source of a material called rhyolite. Because Germany was attempting to use the North Atlantic as a base during World War II, the United States actually did apply the Monroe Doctrine on European colonies in the North Atlantic Ocean.
By 1946, the joint chiefs of staff had listed Greenland and Iceland as essential international locations for American bases. In fact, when NATO was in its heyday, Greenland was seen as more important to both American and Canadian defense than some of the Western European countries. That was because the very, very north of Canada, the North American continent, gets pretty close to territory that is controlled by Russia.
In 1951, Greenland and the United States signed a treaty that gave the United States exclusive jurisdiction over defense areas within Greenland. So there is a significantly solid case that the United States actually ought to buy Greenland.
But there’s more. 
President Trump has made clear that he does not want the Panama Canal to be controlled by the Chinese. He&#8217;s half joking when he&#8217;s making fun of Justin Trudeau and talking about making Canada the 51st state, but the Greenland issue is actually a fairly serious proposal. And when it comes to the Panama Canal, there really is a serious problem. The Panama Canal was built with American labor and money. It was turned over idiotically by one of our worst presidents, Jimmy Carter.
The Panama Canal has run significantly worse since we turned it over to Panama. The Panamanians have turned over both ends of the canals to Chinese companies who could easily shut off the entrances and exits to the Panama Canal. 40% of all American container traffic goes through the Panama Canal. That&#8217;s a lot of American commerce moving through the Panama Canal.
If the United States were ever to get into a conflict with China, most shipping would cease because China would try to take control of the Taiwan Strait and the Strait of Malacca, which is basically the tip of the South China Sea. That would shut off another shipping route. If they could shut off shipping in the Western Hemisphere, they could absolutely cripple the American economy.
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On foreign policy, Trump was asked about what he&#8217;s going to do if the hostages are not freed by Hamas by the time he takes office in just 13 days. 
President Trump <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-vows-all-hell-will-break-out-if-hamas-hostages-not-released-before-he-takes-office-do-i-have-to-define-it-for-you/">answered</a>:
<blockquote>Do I have to define it for you? Look, all hell will break out. … If they’re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is. And they should have given them back a long time ago, they should have never taken them, there should have never been the attack on Oct. 7. People forget that, but there was, and many people [were] killed.</blockquote>
This is strength. Joe Biden never had any moral clarity about this because he&#8217;s a fool. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has moral clarity about this.
And this is the correct approach. If Hamas is not afraid, they&#8217;re not releasing the hostages. It is that simple. There&#8217;s nothing else that is going to make them release the hostages other than dire threats and action and allowing Israel to do exactly what it needs to do in the Gaza Strip.
And then Trump was asked about the possibility of a preemptive strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities if they were to ramp up their nuclear production. And Trump gave the correct answer on this one too.
Again, Trump gave more answers in this one press conference than Biden has given in four years. He made more intelligent statements in this press conference than Biden has ever said in his entire career. That’s because Biden was, is, and will be a dullard. 
President Trump explained that if Iran were to attempt a nuclear weapon, he wouldn’t tell the reporter what he would do because he&#8217;s the president, and he&#8217;s not going to tell some dumb reporter what he&#8217;s going to do because it&#8217;s a stupid question. That is correct.
Speaking of other good things, President Trump also had some words about Biden&#8217;s attempts to shut down drilling for oil off pretty much all of America&#8217;s Eastern seaboard on his way out. Trump said, we like to produce energy in America. American energy independence has made us less dependent on some of the worst places in the world. That is a good thing. And Biden is throttling America&#8217;s energy independence.
A great press conference.
He’s better than he ever was.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greenland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenland</a> Prime Minister Múte Egede announced this week that he wants the island to gain its independence from Denmark as President-elect Donald Trump tries to acquire the world&#8217;s largest island to bolster U.S. national security.
“The Greenlandic people’s opportunity for independence has been adopted through the provisions of the Self-Government Act, thereby creating a legal basis for how independence can be achieved,” Egede <a href="https://naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2025/01/0201_Nytaarstale-2025?sc_lang=da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a speech on New Year&#8217;s Day.
He said that the island was not treated well by Denmark, that it was still stuck in the &#8220;colonial era,&#8221; and that it was time to &#8220;move on.&#8221;
“A draft constitution for our country has also been prepared,” he said. “Work has already begun with regard to creating the framework for Greenland as an independent state within the possibilities and provisions of the Self-Government Act.”
Trump has repeatedly stated in recent weeks that it was critical for the U.S. to take control of the island for national security reasons.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said late last month.
Former Trump National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-natsec-adviser-trump-is-serious-about-making-greenland-part-of-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week that Denmark either must start defending Greenland, pay the U.S. to do defend it, or the U.S. will purchase the world’s largest island.
“Greenland is a highway from the Arctic all the way to North America, to the United States,” O’Brien said. “It’s strategically very important to the Arctic, which is going to be the critical battleground of the future, because as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe cuts down the on the usage of the Panama Canal, and the Russians and Chinese are all over the Arctic.”
“Now the Kingdom of Denmark owns Greenland, and they’ve got an obligation to defend Greenland,” he said. “And so President Trump said, ‘If you don’t defend Greenland, we’ll buy it and we’ll defend it, but we’re not going to defend it for free and let you not develop Greenland and not extract the minerals and oil and and resources of Greenland and while we defend it, Denmark gets rich, and the Kingdom of Denmark becomes even wealthier.&#8217;”
“Denmark is now on the front lines of the war against Russia and China,” he continued. “They’re like the Baltic states, like Poland, because of their vast territory in Greenland. And so they’ve got to defend Greenland. And if they can’t defend it, we’re going to have to, and we’re not going to do it for free.”
He said that the Danes needed to invest serious military resources there or “they can pay us to do it, and we’ll do it, but they can cover the cost of the defense, or if they don’t want to do either those things, they can let us buy Greenland from them and Greenland can become part of Alaska.”
“I mean, the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska, and we’ll make it a part of Alaska,” he concluded. “But the U.S. can’t defend it for nothing. And the days of the U.S. taxpayer defending Western Europe and the Kingdom in Europe and defending their empire for nothing, those days are over. And we love the Danish people. They’re great. Denmark’s a wonderful place. Copenhagen is a wonderful city, but, but they’ve had to do their part. They can’t have this vast empire, and not defend it and leave it to the U.S. to do it. So we’re gonna either buy it, they’re gonna defend it, or they can pay us to defend it, but it’s no more free riding.”

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Three alleged terrorists were <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-14/denmark-arrests-several-people-over-suspected-terrorism-planning?embedded-checkout=true">arrested</a> Thursday in Denmark on suspicion of planning an attack directed at Jews, while another suspect was arrested in the Netherlands.
<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to the Israeli prime minister’s office, Israel’s Mossad foiled the attack that they said was planned against Jews in Denmark.
The prime minister’s office said the terrorists were “acting on behalf of the terrorist organization Hamas&#8221; and that Mossad had &#8220;foiled an attack aimed at killing innocent citizens on European soil,” according to Israel National News, adding, “In recent years, and even more so after the murderous attack on October 7, Hamas strives to expand its operational capabilities around the world and in Europe in particular in order to realize its ambitions to strike Israeli, Jewish, and Western targets at any cost.”
“We work together with our partners in the intelligence and security bodies in Denmark on the successful countermeasures that culminated today with the carrying out of the arrests and the extensive exposure of Hamas infrastructure on European soil, and we see great importance in promoting the legal proceedings against those involved,” the statement continued. “The terrorist organization Hamas works indiscriminately and in every way it can to expand its deadly activities to Europe, thus posing a threat to the internal security of these countries. The Mossad and the Shin Bet will continue to operate with their partners in Israel and around the world in order to thwart the intentions of Hamas and eliminate its capabilities.”
“This is extremely serious,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/copenhagen-police-danish-intelligence-make-arrests-suspicion-preparations-attack-2023-12-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in Brussels. “It is, of course — in relation to Israel and Gaza — completely unacceptable for someone to bring a conflict elsewhere in the world into Danish society. For a number of years now, we have seen that there are people living in Denmark who do not wish us well. Who are against our freedom and who are against Danish society, with all that it entails.”
Earlier this week, the Netherlands announced raising their terrorism threat level to “substantial.”
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In 2015, a 22-year-old Danish Muslim gunman killed one person and injured three police officers at a free speech debate in a café; he also murdered a Jewish man and wounded two police officers near Copenhagen’s main synagogue. The gunman had <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/denmark-shootings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sworn allegiance</a> to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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A Danish <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">artist</a> is being asked to return money he was given to complete an art installation after he submitted two blank canvases as the finished project.
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denmark">Denmark</a> lent artist Jens Haaning 532,549 Dutch krone, equivalent to about $76,400, so he could recreate two earlier pieces that physically depicted the average income of a Danish citizen versus an Austrian citizen, per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten">NPR</a>. 
But rather than affixing the money to the canvases, Haaning pocketed the cash and turned in blank canvases he dubbed “Take the Money And Run.” 
The museum initially accepted the canvases and displayed them as part of its “Work It Out” show in 2021, expecting the artist to return the money afterward. But he refused, which resulted in a lengthy court battle.  
Haaning has now been ordered to return the money plus $11,000 in legal fees. The ruling deducted roughly $5,700 from the amount owed to reflect Haaning&#8217;s artist&#8217;s fee and viewing fee because the exhibit did proceed with his two blank canvases included.
Museum director Lasse Andersson, at first, was amused by the stunt. &#8220;Jens is known for his conceptual and activistic art with a humoristic touch. And he gave us that – but also a bit of a wake up call as everyone now wonders where did the money go,&#8221; he told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-jens-haaning-take-the-money-and-run-ordered-return-cash-denmark/">CBS News</a> in 2021. 
But he also warned the artist that they did need the money back.
&#8220;We are not a wealthy museum,&#8221; Andersson told The Guardian in 2021. &#8220;We have to think carefully about how we spend our funds, and we don&#8217;t spend more than we can afford.&#8221;
The museum had extracted the funds from a building maintenance fund to give to Haaning. “I believe he will give it back to us. He is a well-regarded artist. But if we don’t get it back, we will have to file charges against the artist,” the director said at the time. Andersson said the museum’s contract with Haaning required him to return the money in January 2022, which he failed to do.
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According to Haaning&#8217;s press release in 2021, &#8220;the idea behind [it] was to show how salaries can be used to measure the value of work and to show national differences within the European Union.&#8221; The artist changed the title to &#8220;Take the Money and Run&#8221; as a means of addressing &#8220;artists&#8217; rights and their working conditions in order to establish more equitable norms within the art industry.&#8221;
“The work is that I have taken their money,” Haaning told the national Danish broadcaster DR in September 2021. “It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”
“I encourage other people who have working conditions as miserable as mine to do the same. If they’re sitting in some sh**y job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it,” he added.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denmark">Danish</a> actor and director reacted with derision when asked about the lack of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">diversity</a>” in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies">film</a> “The Promised Land,” which was screened at the Venice Film Festival.
Actor Mads Mikkelsen and award-winning filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel were sitting for a panel discussion about the movie when an unnamed journalist posed the question. 
“If it’s not because of artistic reasons, but because of a lack of diversity this film cannot <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">compete</a> in [the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Academy Awards</a>]. Are you worried about that?” the journalist asked, prompting Mikkelsen to quickly say, “Are you?”
“You’re putting us on the spot, so you answer the question,” he continued with a laugh and shake of his head.
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Arcel also defended the casting choices. “First of all, the film takes place in Denmark in the 1750s,” he said. “We do have a big plot line about a girl of color who is being subjected to racism. It was very rare to have people of color in Denmark in the 1700s, almost nobody. She was probably at the time the only one in the entire country of Denmark.”
The director went on to discuss how the new diversity requirements in Hollywood weren’t a consideration during the movie’s development. “It wasn’t a thought in our mind. I think it would be a little weird. It’s just historical and how it was in the 1750s,” Arcel added.
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Per <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20561198/">IMDb</a>, “The Promised Land” is about a poor soldier named Ludvig Kahlen (Mikkelsen) who arrives in 1755 in Denmark with the goal of cultivating the land to gain wealth and honor. But Kahlen experiences pushback from landowner Frederik De Schinkel, who believes that the land belongs to him.
The Danish journalist was referring to the new Oscars eligibility requirements set forth by the Academy. They stipulate that beginning in 2024, a film will only qualify for Best Picture if it meets specific diversity criteria in two of four diversity areas. The Academy’s new guidelines cover “on-screen representation, themes and narratives” and “creative leadership and project team,” among other items, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oscars-announce-new-inclusion-standards-for-best-picture-revolving-around-underrepresented-groups">reported</a>. 
Per the guidelines, underrepresented groups would need to be included both on screen in major and minor roles and the storylines must focus on those groups as well.

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A new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denmark">Danish</a> landmark study finds that suicide rates and psychiatric conditions are much higher among <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> people.
Trans-identifying people in Denmark had a suicide death rate 3.5 times higher and a suicide attempt rate 7.7 times higher than people who did not identify as transgender, according to the <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2806531?guestAccessKey=458dc50a-ea74-489c-bc68-c0128d48a4e3&amp;utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=062723" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a>, which was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
There were 92 suicide attempts and 12 suicide deaths among the study&#8217;s 3,759 trans-identifying people between 1980 and 2021.
The study analyzed the medical and legal gender change records of nearly seven million people in Denmark, including the nearly 3,800 transgender people, over the last four decades.
Trans-identifying people also tended to die younger overall, whether by suicide or something else, the study found.
However, suicide rates in both groups decreased over the four decades the study examined.
&#8220;Results suggest that transgender individuals had significantly higher rates of suicide attempt, suicide mortality, suicide-unrelated mortality, and all-cause mortality compared with the nontransgender population,&#8221; the study said.
Meanwhile, the rate of psychiatric conditions was higher for the trans-identifying group.
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Nearly 43% of the trans-identifying people had a psychiatric diagnosis, compared with just 7% of the non-trans-identifying group.
“This is beyond doubt a huge problem that needs to be looked at,” said one of the authors of the study, Dr. Morten Frisch, a sexual health epidemiologist at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.
The study&#8217;s authors suggested that their findings might possibly apply to the U.S. as well since the U.S. and Denmark have similar suicide rates, about 14 suicides per 100,000 people.
However, the rate of people who identify as transgender could be as much as ten times higher in the U.S. than in Denmark, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/health/transgender-suicide-risk-denmark.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Williams Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles suggests, although the Danish researchers also noted that they may not have captured newer waves of trans-identification that are more prevalent among younger populations.
Gender ideology activists in the U.S. often argue that trans-identifying people, especially youth, are at a higher risk of suicide if they are denied drastic medical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender surgeries such as double mastectomies and later genital surgeries.
However, Denmark is famously progressive on the transgender issue and <a href="https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rates</a> as one of the most LGBT-friendly countries in the world, even above the U.S.
The group of Danish trans-identifying people analyzed in the study were recognized as transgender in either their legal or medical records.
In 1989, Denmark became the first country in the world to legally recognize same-sex partnerships. Denmark <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/christine-jorgensen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has allowed</a> people to undergo sex change operations and receive hormone therapy since at least the early 1950s. Since 2014, Danish people 18 and older can <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140829002605/http://www.amnesty.org/en/en/news/denmark-transgender-law-2014-06-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legally change</a> their gender simply by stating that they want to do so.
In the U.S., critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries. Young people who previously identified as transgender have also spoken out about regretting getting medical intervention.
At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-states-with-restrictions-on-medical-child-sex-changes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17 states</a> have moved to restrict hormone treatments and gender surgeries for children as more minors seek them out.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year, a sharp increase over the previous few years. From 2017 to 2021, gender dysphoria diagnoses in children nearly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tripled</a>.
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Danish investigators invited the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nord-stream-pipeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nord Stream</a> pipelines’ Russian operator to inspect and help recover an unidentified object found near the only remaining intact pipeline on Thursday.
Last week, the pipelines’ Swiss-based operator found the cylindrical object jutting over a foot out of the seabed during an inspection of the last intact pipeline, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-invites-nord-stream-operator-help-salvage-unidentified-object-2023-03-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. The other three pipelines that make up the Nord Stream network, which carries natural gas from Russia to Germany, were blown up in September in what several countries’ investigators have said was an intentional act of sabotage.
“With a view to further clarifying the nature of the object, Danish authorities have decided to salvage the object with assistance from the Danish Defence,” Denmark’s Energy Agency said in a statement Thursday. “The Danish Energy Agency has in that context invited the owner of the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, to participate in the operation.”
Despite months of investigating, officials have yet to formally accuse anyone of blowing up the pipelines. German investigators have said the party of a yacht rented several weeks before the explosions is raising red flags. The mysterious crew, which rented the boat on September 6, has ties to Ukraine, investigators <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/nord-stream-pipeline-blasts-lead-to-ukraine-media-reports-germany/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, dismissed questions that Ukraine’s government had been involved in the Nord Stream explosions.
“Although I enjoy collecting amusing conspiracy theories about the [Ukrainian] government, I have to say: [Ukraine] has nothing to do with the Baltic Sea mishap and has no information about ‘pro-[Ukraine] sabotage groups,’” Podolyak <a href="https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1633160394427494415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on social media.
Investigators say that the 50-foot-long yacht Andromeda, rented from a harbor in northern Germany, could have served as a staging point for divers to swim down to the pipelines on the bed of the Baltic Sea and rig them with explosives. The boat carried traces of explosives when investigators examined it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was under suspicion of ordering the sabotage early on, though no evidence has been found connecting Russia with the explosions. It is unclear what motive Putin would have to carry out the attack, and skeptics have pointed out that if Russia wanted the pipelines offline, it could have cut off the supply of fuel.
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Putin has dismissed reports that suggested Ukraine or pro-Ukraine militants were responsible for sabotaging the pipeline.
“One should always look for those who are interested. And who is interested? Theoretically, of course, the United States is interested,” Putin <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-nord-stream-blasts-carried-out-state-level-2023-03-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. The Russian president added that whoever was responsible needed state support to pull it off.
The United States has been pointed to as a potential culprit, earning early suspicion because of some of President Joe Biden’s past opposition to Nord Stream and his pledge to “stop it.” Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, but whose later journalism has been strongly questioned, reported in February that the United States sabotaged the pipeline with help from Norway.
The U.S. and Norway have denied Hersh’s <a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream">report</a>, which has not been corroborated. “This is false and complete fiction,” White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told Hersh.

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A 15th-century shipwreck discovered in the 1970s continues to reveal what was traveling with King John of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denmark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denmark</a> and how the ruling class lived. The well-preserved Danish warship, a favorite of the king, contained exotic spices and numerous plant foods, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> in late January.
The Gribshunden, also known as the Griffon, was known as King John’s “floating castle” and has produced many new finds since its discovery off the southern coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea. It is one of the <a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/new-discoveries-at-famous-gribshunden-shipwreck/144710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best-preserved</a> shipwrecks from the Age of Exploration, which lasted roughly from the 1400s to the 1600s. This study, the first on the archaeobotanical material from the site, sheds light on the luxuries “limited to the elites.”
&#8220;This is perhaps the most thrilling haul of spices from a shipwreck because of its age, quality of the plant remains—exotic, expensive spices—and the remarkable state of preservation,” Brendan Foley, a <a href="https://www.ark.lu.se/en/person/BrendanFoley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">researcher</a> at the Lund University’s Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and co-author of the study, told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/shipwreck-500-year-old-floating-castle-gribshunden-found-thrilling-haul-1780019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>. “Beyond shipwrecks, this is certainly among the most fabulous discoveries of spices in any archaeological context, on land or sea.”
The study, which is based on a 2021 excavation campaign of the site, split the finds from the wreck into five categories: cereals, oilseeds, fruits and vegetables, and spices and nuts. Beyond the five food categories, researchers also discovered henbane, which was used for medicinal purposes. Archeologists discovered all of the botanical remains in the sediment within a square meter unit near the ship&#8217;s stern, according to the study.
Among the many spices found are ginger, saffron, black pepper, clove, black mustard, and dill. Other finds, which the study explains could be eaten as snacks, used in baking, or in the main meal, include berries, grapes, flax, nuts, and cucumber. The fruits and vegetables were found as seeds. Berries, which are highly perishable when fresh, were preserved likely by drying, allowing them to be identified.
This new discovery shows that luxury foods for kings, queens, and other royals weren’t confined to land only. “The consumption of luxurious foods was a crucial aspect of King Hans’ and other monarchs’ presentation of themselves to their subjects,” the study states. It explains that many of these spices and foods, including saffron, ginger, and grapes, were not accessible to most people in that period due to cost and rarity.
King John, or King Hans in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-king-of-Denmark-Norway-and-Sweden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danish</a>, ruled both Denmark and Norway and was on his way to Sweden to convince them to rejoin the Scandinavian union, thereby becoming king of Sweden as well. On the way to the summit in Kalmar, Sweden, in the <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-500-year-old-atlantic-sturgeon-royal-danish-shipwreck-180975744/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summer</a> of 1495, the Gribshunden caught on fire after an explosion, sinking the vessel and all the luxury goods that were aboard. The ship was docked off of Great Oak Island, and while King John was not on board, several crew members <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-500-year-old-atlantic-sturgeon-royal-danish-shipwreck-180975744/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">perished</a>.
One of the possible reasons for the many items that were aboard the ship was to “demonstrate to the Swedish delegation the authority and wealth of his crown,” by showing off artillery, warships, soldiers, and other weapons, in addition to “soft power signifiers: coinage, artwork, splendid livery, and delicacies for feasting,” according to the study.
Foley <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/shipwreck-500-year-old-floating-castle-gribshunden-found-thrilling-haul-1780019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> the ship is &#8220;a well-preserved example of the enabling technologies that led to European domination of the planet after 1492.&#8221;

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Archeologists believe they have discovered the remains of a thousand-year-old Viking hall in Denmark, the Historical Museum of Northern Jutland said in a December <a href="https://nordjyskemuseer.dk/vikingehal-fra-harald-blaatands-tid-dukket-op-ved-hune/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
The remains were discovered as archeologists excavated the area before <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article270472347.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">constructing</a> a house in Hune, a small village in northern Denmark. Archeologist Thomas Rune Knudsen says the discovery is the biggest Viking Age discovery in over a decade.
&#8220;This is the largest Viking Age find of this nature in more than ten years, and we have not seen anything like it before here in North Jutland, even though it has only been partially excavated,&#8221; Knudsen, who is the excavation leader for the museum, said in the press release.
Knudsen believes that the hall was once a “prestigious building” that could have been used for political meetings and Viking guilds. The hall is 130 feet long and 33 feet wide, according to the museum. There are 10 to 12 oak posts that once helped support the roof. The posts, which measure 90 by 50 cm, are rectangular cross-sections.
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Based on the style of the hall, archeologists believe it is from the time of King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, who <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harald-I-king-of-Denmark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> Denmark and Norway from AD 958-985. The press release says “for this reason the hall can tentatively be dated to the late Viking Age, i.e. last half of the 9th century or the very first part of the 11th century.”
Today’s Bluetooth, the wireless technology used to connect devices, is actually named after the Danish king. “Bluetooth” got his name from a dead tooth that appeared dark blue, according to the <a href="https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bluetooth website</a>. During a 1996 meeting between Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia to standardize the technology, Jim Karach of Intel pitched the name Bluetooth as a temporary solution.
“King Harald Bluetooth…was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless link,” Kardach was later quoted as saying. Beyond uniting Denmark and Norway, “Bluetooth” is also known for <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harald-I-king-of-Denmark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">converting</a> the Danes to Christianity.
Knudsen believes that there are likely more structures and houses within the vicinity of the hall, saying “a hall building of this nature rarely stands alone.” In addition to the discovery of the Viking hall, researchers believe they even know who the plot of land might have belonged to. The museum says they had previously found a raised stone measuring one and a half meters high. The stone, dated AD 970-1020, has an inscription, reading &#8220;Hove, Thorkild, Thorbjørn set their father Runulv den Rådnilde&#8217;s stone.”
&#8220;It is difficult to prove that the found Viking hall belonged to the family of Runulv den Rådsnilde, but it is certainly a possibility,” Knudsen said. “If nothing else, the rune stone and hall represent the same social class and both belong to society&#8217;s elite.&#8221;
Only half of the hall has been excavated, but archeologists have plans to resume operations in the new year when the weather improves. They will also use more scientific dating and are expected to release those results closer to the end of the year.

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