"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

That’s why NATO might have to get involved ... we really need Greenland for national security. It’s very important,' Trump said in front of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

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.