Greenland’s officials have just delivered a polite but firm “no thank you” to President Trump’s recent offer of a “great hospital boat” for the Arctic territory. This comes after Trump announced he would deploy a U.S. Navy hospital ship to Greenland, claiming it would “take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there.”
According to the New York Times, Trump posted an image of the USNS Mercy, a massive 1,000-bed U.S. military hospital ship, to his Truth Social over the weekend, stating the vessel was “on the way.” However, ship tracking data from early Sunday showed the Mercy still docked in Mobile, Alabama. The U.S. military typically uses these hospital ships for urgent surgeries, disaster relief, or humanitarian missions globally.
