"We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland," Greenland's Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede said.

Greenland's prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, issued a defiant response to U.S. President Donald Trump after he said America would eventually take control of the Arctic island. "Americans and their leader need to understand this.

Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Múte Bourup Egede made the statement on Facebook Wednesday, just hours after Trump declared in his speech to a joint session of Congress that he intends to gain control of Greenland “one way or the other.

Stating that the island’s citizens are neither American nor Danish because they are Greenlandic, PM Egede wrote in a post on Facebook on Wednesday that the US needs to understand this and added the future of Greenland will be decided by its people.

Greenland's leader has told Donald Trump his land can't be take or bought after the president told Congress the US would get the territory ‘one way or another’.

Greenland’s prime minister says “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump said his administration supported the Arctic

Greenland PM Múte Bourup Egede's remark came hours after Trump reiterated his interest in acquiring Greenland in his address to Congress, painting a picture of prosperity and safety for the "incredible people" of the island.

President Donald Trump doubled-down on his interest in assuming Greenland, and he isn't the first elected official to suggest doing so.

Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede aims to call for a referendum on independence if reelected on March 11. “Greenland is for the Greenlandic people,” affirmed Egede. “We do not want to be Danish.