It was a contentious, aggressive telephone call, five days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen agreed with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss the issue of Greenland at a later time. This was the result of their 20-minute conversation, The Guardian reports.

Denmark agreed on Friday to discuss the Arctic region with Washington, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, after his first phone call with the top diplomat of the administration of President Donald Trump,

A satirical article from 2019 about a Danish government offer to buy the United States, minus its government, is being shared online as an authentic response from Denmark to President-elect Donald Trump's recent remarks about taking over Greenland.

"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called the country’s business leaders to a meeting on Thursday after US President-elect Donald Trump last week threatened military or economic action such as tariffs to take control of Greenland.

As a new Donald Trump presidency begins in the United States, Copenhagen and more specifically Greenland have been making more headlines.

Trump has expressed an interest in making Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, part of the United States. He has not ruled out using military or economic power to persuade Denmark to ...

Trump argues that the U.S. needs Greenland for aerospace security. But Canada and the U.S. jointly comprise the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). Greenland joining Confederation would fully integrate it into the NORAD defences, which stretch across Canada’s existing Arctic territories.

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems arise that persist or worsen inside such societies because they are unsuccessfully navigated or go unattended.

Trump has shown interest in making Greenland part of the US and has not dismissed the use of military or economic power.