Denmark urges Trump to stop threatening to annex Greenland

• The leaders of Denmark and Greenland urged the US to stop its threats of buying Greenland.
• The Danish prime minister said the US "has no right to annex" Greenland.
• Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of controlling Greenland, for security reasons and for its resources.

Denmark and Greenland are once again calling on the US to stop eyeing Greenland as land for sale.

In a statement on a Danish government website on Sunday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, "I have to say this very directly to the United States."

"It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland," she said. "The United States has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Commonwealth."

Frederiksen, who has been the country's prime minister since 2019, said that Greenland, which falls under the Kingdom of Denmark, is part of NATO, "and is therefore covered by the alliance's security guarantee."

She added that Denmark has a defense agreement with the US, which gives the US access to Greenland. The US has one military base, the Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland.

"I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have said very clearly that they are not for sale," Frederiksen said in her statement.

The Danish prime minister's statement comes after President Donald Trump's former aide, Katie Miller, posted an image on X of a map of Greenland superimposed with the US flag.

The Sunday post by Miller, who is married to White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, was accompanied by the caption, "SOON."

And over recent years, Trump has repeatedly talked about the possibility of buying Greenland for US security and to tap into its trove of natural resources.

Jesper Møller Sørensen, the Danish ambassador to the US, responded to Miller's post, writing, "Just a friendly reminder about the US and the Kingdom of Denmark: We are close allies and should continue to work together as such."

Sørensen added that he expects "full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark."

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Sunday Facebook post, "Enough is enough."

He said he would not accept "fantasies of annexation," and said that he found the US's messaging "completely and utterly unacceptable."

Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland during his first term in August 2019, per a report that month by The Wall Street Journal. Greenland's foreign affairs ministry wrote in an X post in the same month, "We're open for business, not for sale."

In a congressional address in March, shortly after commencing his second term, Trump said the US would take control of Greenland, "One way or the other."

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance also visited Greenland in March.

Representatives for Trump and Frederiksen did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.