Blinken says Trump's push for US to take control of Greenland is 'not going to happen'

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is advising the world not to waste a lot of time on what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying about Greenland. Trump made clear again this week that he'd like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to become part of the United States, saying it needs Greenland “for national security purposes.” But Blinken said Wednesday that the idea is “obviously not a good one” and is unlikely to amount to anything more than talk. He said it's "not going to happen, so we probably shouldn’t waste a lot of time talking about it.”