BATON ROUGE, LA – LADOTD Officials confirmed this week that the group currently studying the long-discussed Mississippi River bridge project in Baton Rouge has been instructed to expand its scope to include a preliminary review of a possible bridge connecting the United States to Greenland, following direct guidance from Jeff Landry.
According to a brief memo circulated internally, the directive does not pause the Mississippi River study, but redirects 90% of the group’s resources to the Greenland – US project. The group was reportedly told the new assignment was meant to be exploratory and should focus on “big-picture possibilities,”
Landry defended the move as a logical extension of ongoing infrastructure planning, noting that Louisiana already possesses “deep experience studying bridges for extended periods of time without ever building them.” He added that expanding the study internationally would allow the state to “think bigger” while continuing its existing work at a familiar pace, possibly even slower.
Preliminary discussion topics are expected to include ice resistance, international coordination, and whether or not it should include several bottlenecks from multiple lanes to a single lane at the most critical points on the structure.
Landry stressed that no construction timeline has been proposed, nor has any funding been identified, explaining that the current phase is focused entirely on study, evaluation, and “seeing what shakes out.”
President Trump praised the move in a statement, calling it “a very big idea, huge” and describing Landry as “strong, decisive, and not afraid of ice, especially the frozen kind.” Trump said the proposal showed the kind of bold thinking “the fake news never understands,” adding that Louisiana’s long history of studying bridges without ever doing anything made it uniquely qualified for the task.
Trump closed by saying he was pleased Landry had already suggested naming the structure the Donald J. Trump Big Beautiful Bridge, calling it “a perfect name” that would “look fantastic everywhere.”
