Trump weighs buying another territory after Greenland fiasco: report [View all]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 07 June 2026 15:38 EDT


The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after President Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.

The president has repeatedly threatened to seize or annex several nations and territories, including Canada and Venezuela, which he has potentially claimed as 51st states. He has also delivered similar threats to Panama and Cuba, with U.S. naval vessels building up forces throughout the Caribbean and launching a campaign of military strikes against small boats that the president claims are trafficking drugs.

His latest alleged plan follows delays in U.K. legislation that would complete the country’s cessation of the territory to the east African nation Mauritius after withdrawal of U.S. support in January. Trump called the treaty organizing the cessation of territory “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY” at the time.

The Telegraph reports that a plan to buy the territory, placing it directly under U.S. control, is among the options being presented to Trump as he makes a decision on further steps for the Chagos Islands, which consist of dozens of islands in the Indian Ocean. The president’s foreign policy has bent sharply towards territorial acquisitions since he returned to the White House, and the U.S. is now in discussions with Cuba’s government over multiple issues including the decades-long U.S. trade embargo of the island.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-chagos-islands-buy-threat-b2991394.html