Denmark deploys additional troops to Greenland after President Donald Trump claims the island is not secure from Russia or China.

The president is feeling "emboldened" by his strike on Venezuela, which ousted leader Nicolás Maduro, a White House official said.

U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have met face to face to discuss President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.

In Trump’s message, sent Jan. 18, he said, "Why (does Denmark) have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also."

O n january 18th, after Donald Trump repeated his threat to take over Greenland and announced tariffs on Denmark and seven other European countries, the mood in Copenhagen darkened. Danish television began to run round-the-clock coverage of the American president,

Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command is expanding military exercises in Greenland to potentially run year-round, a Greenlandic newspaper reported, as the US ramps up pressure over control of the Arctic island.

COPENHAGEN/NUUK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Protesters in Denmark and Greenland demonstrated on Saturday against President Donald Trump's demand that the Arctic island be ceded to the U.S. and called for it to be left to determine its own future.

European Parliament Member Anders Vistisen confronts President Donald Trump's Greenland interest with profanity-laced rebuke, drawing official reprimand from parliament leadership.