{"id":17354,"date":"2026-01-07T00:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-u-s-military-action-in-greenland-would-not-be-appropriate\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:46:42","slug":"johnson-u-s-military-action-in-greenland-would-not-be-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-u-s-military-action-in-greenland-would-not-be-appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: U.S. military action in Greenland \u2018would not be appropriate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday evening swatted down the idea of any U.S. military action to take over Greenland, just after the White House said President Donald Trump wanted to acquire the territory and would not take military action off the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s appropriate,\u201d Johnson told reporters Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-greenland-military-force-00713315\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement Tuesday<\/a> that &#8220;utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief\u2019s disposal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The speaker, who said he hadn&#8217;t seen the statement, appeared to not believe the White House would make such a comment. Johnson did say he believed \u201cGreenland is viewed by a lot of people as something that would be a strategic positioning for the U.S.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the issue didn&#8217;t come up in conversations with Trump earlier Tuesday at the House GOP retreat. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday evening swatted down the idea of any U.S. military action to take over Greenland, just after the White House said President Donald Trump wanted to acquire the territory and would not take military action off the table. \u201cNo, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s appropriate,\u201d Johnson told reporters Tuesday evening. White House press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}