Faced with what many in Denmark are calling Trump's "provocation," Frederiksen has broadly attempted to strike a conciliatory tone, repeatedly referring to the US as "Denmark's closest partner". It was "only natural" that the US was preoccupied by the Arctic and Greenland, she added.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to make Greenland an American territory, but residents of the Arctic island aren't taking the threat too seriously, saying their land isn’t up for grabs.

Donald Trump “needs” Greenland – just like he apparently needs Canada and the Panama Canal – and his supporters want to give it to him. In a post on X, Never Trumper group Republicans Against Trump shared a video where a group of Trump supporters listen with phones out to the words of the president-elect,