Greenland Maintains It’s ‘Not for Sale’ After Trump Said He Would Get It ‘One Way or the Other’

Greenland’s prime minister issued a harsh rebuke of President Donald Trump after the president said he would get the Denmark-owned territory “one way or the other” during Tuesday night’s speech in front of a joint session of Congress.

“Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenlandic for “Land of the People,” or “land of the Greenlanders”) is ours,” Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede wrote in a Facebook post. “We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; we are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland.”

Egede is holding firm after telling Fox News in January that “we don’t want to be Americans.”

Some snickering was heard on the floor Tuesday night as Trump reiterated his desire to acquire Greenland during his speech to Congress:

And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security and even international security. And we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it one way or the other. We’re going to get it.

Trump has repeatedly said he wants take over Greenland since his inauguration, and he has some support in Congress.

Rep. Earl Carter (R-GA) introduced a bill last month intended to authorize President Trump to take over Greenland and rebrand it as Red, White, and Blueland.

“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” the congressman wrote.

Also in January, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) backed Trump’s bid for Greenland to Fox Business’ Cheryl Cassone, saying the U.S. is “the dominant predator cop.”

Watch clip above, via Fox News.