If Trump did make good on his threat to annex Greenland by force, “that would be the shortest war in the world, there is no defensive capacity in Greenland. The Americans were in charge,” said Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

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.

The French foreign minister said the bloc must become stronger after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to take control of Greenland. View on euronews

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,