"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

The leader of the winning party said he hoped the election would send a clear message to Trump that Greenland was “not for sale” and Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans.”

Greenland's pro-business opposition Demokraatit party, which favours a slow approach to independence from Denmark, won a parliamentary election that was dominated by Trump's pledge to take control of the island.