Greenland’s prime minister says “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from U.S. President Donald Trump

Mute Bourup Egede, the Prime Minister of Greenland, has shared a strong statement on Facebook as Trump brought up Greenland again in a speech during a Joint Session of Congress

Nuuk: Prime Minister of Greenland, Múte Bourup Egede declared on Wednesday that “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from US President Donald Trump, who said the

Greenland's Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede firmly stated that Greenland will not be bought by the US, responding to President Trump's comments about acquiring the territory. Egede emphasized Greenland's autonomy and self-determination,

President Trump highlighted Greenland's strategic value for U.S. security, while Prime Minister Egede firmly asserted Greenland's autonomy and future as an independent nation.

In a Facebook post published in Greenlandic and Danish, Múte Bourup Egede said that ... we welcome you into the United States of America,” Trump stated. He further promised to “keep you ...

Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede wrote following Trump's speech, "We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit (Greenlanders)."

In his address to Congress Tuesday night, Trump gave conflicting messages to the citizens of Greenland. While he claimed to “strongly support” Greenlanders’ “right to determine [their] own future,” and promised to keep them safe and make them rich, the president also restated that the U.S. would succeed in acquiring the territory.

President Donald Trump doubled-down on his interest in assuming Greenland, and he isn't the first elected official to suggest doing so.