Donald Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to consider taking land from Denmark. What did the U.S. want last time and why?

Scholz has said before that defending freedom and those who are attacked is Germany’s responsibility ... Trump, who has previously teased taking over Greenland, reiterated his comments this ...

Military. Trump has said Greenland is vital to U.S. security. There is historical precedent: After Germany occupied Denmark ...

southern Germany, on Feb. 13, 2025, one day before the start of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). AFP via Getty Images Greenland’s leader, Prime Minister Mute B. Egede, expressed his ...

Greenland's foreign minister has said it is seeking deeper cooperation with China and potentially a free trade agreement, ...

An international relations expert said there are a few ways Trump could acquire Greenland, however, those options would have ...

The president said that nothing was "off the table" with regards to Washington taking control of the Arctic island.

The U.S. military arrived in Greenland—then a Danish colony—in 1941, shortly after Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II, to provide the country with defenses against German ...

While Germany controlled Europe, the Nazis set their sights on the Arctic. Greenland became an unwitting combatant, and the United States stepped in, not to conquer but to protect,” the narrator ...

America and Germany soon found themselves in stiff opposition ... The White House’s determination to make Greenland part of the United States brings the ambitions of presidents like Wilson ...