Carla Sands, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark and Greenland, told Newsmax on Wednesday that recent election results in Greenland could signal openness to a deal with President Donald Trump, who said would like to acquire the Danish territory.

“It’s really a new day in Greenland,” Sands said on “Wake Up America.” “You can see 84% of the people that live there want to go independent. Some of them want it now and that’s the party that just lost with about 24.5% of the vote. But the party that won almost 30% is … that party that is pro-growth, pro-business. And it’s a center-right party, which Greenland’s always been a little more, in my time, center-left or hard left, more Marxist. And so this is really exciting because President Trump wants to make a deal.

“If Greenland is going independent, and Greenlanders want prosperity, there’s no better partner to have than the United States, and they can cut a good deal. And certainly in the way that Greenlanders prefer, because the United States can defend Greenland and we can also help them develop it. Denmark … they’re incapable of defending or developing Greenland. They’ve never shown an interest in … really developing Greenland. It’s just been kind of languishing with welfare payments from Denmark every year of about $600 million.”

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