CNN data guru Harry Enten joined Anderson Cooper on Thursday evening to discuss the latest polling data on President Donald Trump’s ongoing desire for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.
“Americans, are they into this whole Greenland thing?” Cooper asked to kick off the conversation, which took place ahead of Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Danish territory.
“This has got to be one of the most unpopular ideas I’ve ever heard. You know I look at the polling day in, day out. The percentage of Americans who are against this, we could throw up on the screen right now, we’re looking at about 70% of Americans who say, no, the U.S. should not take over Greenland. That is more Americans who were for the impeachment and removal of Richard Nixon by the end of his presidency. This is uniformly unpopular. Even only half of Republicans support it,” Enten replied.
“And what do people in Greenland think?” Cooper followed up.
“Yeah, what do people in Greenland think? Because I think this is sort of the big question, right? What do people in Greenland think? If you think the American people were against it, take a look at this,” Enten said, adding:
We managed to get a poll of the people on the beautiful land of Greenland. And what do Greenlanders think? Look at this no percentage who are against this idea. 85%, just 6% say yes. To give you an idea of how low 6% is, if you took a poll of Americans and say, ‘Do you believe we actually landed on the moon?’ About 10% of Americans think we faked the manned moon landing. So fewer Greenlanders are for the US taking over Greenland than Americans who actually believe that we did not land on the moon.
“This is not the first time the US has shown interest in purchasing Greenland?” noted Cooper.
“No, this is kind of interesting to me. I kind of thought maybe Donald Trump came up with this idea out of nowhere. But in fact, there have been numerous points in US history where there’s some idea that we might take over Greenland,” Enten said, adding:
Perhaps most recently back in the 40s, right? Harry S. Truman after World War II, there was idea for strategic defense because we could fly the planes over the polar, the polar region’s much easier to get over to Moscow. And what was interesting was the idea, okay, maybe we’d spend a billion dollars to perhaps purchase Greenland from Denmark, but even then, what you see is only 33% of Americans back then were in favor of it. The plurality, 38%. No, I have never seen a single poll in which the yeses on us purchasing Greenland was higher than the nos throughout American history.
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