Donald Trump should be allowed to buy Greenland – the world needs a transfer window for countries, says Jeremy Clarkson
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DONALD Trump should be allowed to buy Greenland - and the world needs a transfer window for countries, says Jeremy Clarkson. The former Top Gear host and Sun columnist backed the incoming US President's controversial foreign policy goals as "pretty strong".
![[Donald Trump at a campaign event.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/president-elect-donald-trump-speaks-948879843.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Since winning the election in November last year, billionaire businessman Trump has expressed an interest in acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal, as well as annexing Canada. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen hit back after the Republican floated plans to seize Greenland - a key strategic location along Arctic trade routes - from the Danes last week.
![[Jeremy Clarkson at a Clarkson's Farm photocall.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jeremy-clarkson-clarksons-farm-photocall-934535965.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
But Clarkson said "the world's borders have never really been set in stone" - comparing Trump's ambitions to those of the Roman Empire. Writing in the Sunday Times, the Clarkson's Farm star, 64, said Rome's grasp started as a "small campsite on the banks of the Tiber" before spreading across the globe, "and now no one minds".
![[Headshot of Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-reached-us-president-elect-962739390.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He went on to say by the middle of the 20th century "we did think we had it all worked out" but now "people all over the globe aren't happy at all". Clarkson pointed to examples like Russia invading Ukraine, as well China's claims on the Spratly Islands, and Morocco's issues with the western Sahara.
![[Map of Arctic trade routes highlighting Greenland's strategic location.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/TB_ARCTIC_TRADE_0847da.png?strip=all&w=707)
"We look today at a political map of the world and we think it's all stable and permanent. But it isn't," he says. "So why are we surprised that Donald Trump thinks that after he's made Canada the 51st state, Greenland should be the 52nd?". Clarkson said the Danes might make "petulant noises" about losing Greenland now, but it's "costing £340million a year in subsidies" and realistically they'd probably be "glad to see the back of it".
