"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

Despite Denmark's refusal, Trump remains confident that the US will annex Greenland. However, Greenland's newly elected leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, firmly rejects the idea, emphasizing the island's push toward independence over US or Danish control.

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.