Greenland is only mentioned twice in the famous publication entitled Project 2025. Presidential Transition Project aka Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, elaborated and published by the Heritage Foundation in April 2023.
The Heritage Foundation, established in 1973, was originally a conservative, pro-business think tank. In 2015 and 2016 initially opposed to Donald Trump, the Heritage Foundation later rallied behind him, especially after his election. The think tank succeeded in filling several important positions in Trump’s transition team and subsequently in his first administration, because the think tank was not a Never Trump stronghold. In January 2018, The Heritage Foundation wrote that the Trump administration had embraced 64% of its 334 policy recommendations.
Over time, The Heritage Foundation moved further to the right, even to the far-right, notably after Kevin Roberts became the think tanks new president in October 2021. Previously, Kevin Roberts had led the Texas Public Policy Foundation and had been a member of Texas governor Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 task force; Abbott had opposed face mask and vaccine mandates.
In May 2022, the Heritage Foundation began opposing military aid to Ukraine. The think tank established relations with the far-right, including the Danube Institute in Budapest, which is in favor of the nation state (and opposed to the European Union), and financed by Viktor Orban‘s illiberal and corrupt government.
Project 2025, published in April 2023, is a far-right project. In a chapter entitled “The Department of State”, Kiron K. Skinner writes: “Concerning Greenland, the opening of a U.S. consulate in Nuuk is welcome. A formal year-round diplomatic presence is an effective way for the U.S. to better understand local political and economic dynamics. Furthermore, given Green- land’s geographic proximity and its rising potential as a commercial and tourist location, the next Administration should pursue policies that enhance economic ties between the U.S. and Greenland.”
In a chapter regarding the “Agency for International Development”, Max Primorac writes: “China’s mercantilist penetration of the developing world and the negative consequences for developing countries’ healthy economic growth have undercut U.S. strategic relationships in those countries and wasted billions in U.S. foreign aid. During the [First] Trump Administration, USAID: […] Established an office in Greenland to help counter China’s claims of being “a near Arctic state” and reoriented its programming across Asia—including establishing a USAID Mission to Central Asia—in line with America’s Indo- Pacific strategy.”
That’s it. Project 2025 does not recommend to buy or annex Greenland/Groenland. In other words, the idea of “taking Greenland one way or another” is not part of the Heritage Foundation’s plans for Trump’s second term. One of the key people pushing hard for the use of force is Trump’s far-right White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor Stephen Miller.
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In the publication of Project 2025, one can read regarding Kiron K. Skinner that he is President and CEO of the Foundation for America and the World, Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Visiting Fellow and Senior Advisor at The Heritage Foundation. Skinner served as Director of Policy Planning and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State from 2018 to 2019 and was a member of the Defense Business Board at the U.S. Department of Defense in 2020. Skinner holds an MA and a PhD in political science from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College.
Regarding Max Primorac, one can read in Project 2025 that he is Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He was acting Chief Operating Officer and Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Previously he was deputy director of Iraq’s reconstruction program at the U.S. Department of State and a senior adviser in the Office of the Secretary. Max was educated at Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Chicago.
NASA satellite photograph showing Greenland/Groenland. Photo: public domain (via Wikipedia).
Article added on January 22, 2026 at 20:15 German time.
