"We don't want to be Americans. No, we don't want to be Danes," he said. "We want to be Greenlanders, and we want our own independence in the future. And we want to build our own

Greenland’s leaders issued a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump’s renewed calls to annex it Thursday, after the president once again expressed his desire to take over the Arctic island.

After an election dominated by Donald Trump's plans to take control of Greenland, the Danish territory continues to fend off false claims about the conflict. DW fact-checked some of the latest false assertions.