Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Sunday that he believes President Donald Trump has made a "compelling argument" about Panama and Greenland.

Donald Trump and Danish PM Mette Fredriksen reportedly held a 45-minute long conversation last week, Financial Times reported. The phone call was termed "horrendous" by European officials who were briefed about it.

Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in annexing Greenland and again suggested Canada could become a US state.

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

President Donald Trump told Denmark ’s prime minister he is serious about taking over Greenland in a “fiery” phone call last week, the Financial Times reports. Trump and Mette Frederiksen spoke on the phone for 45 minutes last week after the president said he wanted the US to take Greenland, despite officials repeatedly saying it’s not for sale.

President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk.

The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday,

The story goes that Trump and Frederiksen spoke on the phone last week for about 45 minutes in what was expected to be a bit of a feeling-out between the two parties, given Trump’s very public declaration that he would like to take Greenland off Denmark’s hands.

Greenland residents "want to be with us," Trump told reporters Saturday on presidential aircraft Air Force One.

During last week's tense call with the Danish premier, Trump insisted he was serious about taking over Greenland, the Financial Times reported, raising fears about the future of trans-Atlantic relations.

Donald Trump would need Keir Starmer’s approval for his new ‘aggressive’ Arctic strategy which sent Denmark into ‘crisis mode’