The chief of Greenland flat-out rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed curiosity in buying the huge Arctic island from Denmark, insisting that the territory shouldn’t be available on the market.

“Greenland is ours,” Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede mentioned in an announcement on Monday. “We aren’t on the market and can by no means be on the market. We should not lose our lengthy wrestle for freedom.”

Egede’s remark comes after the incoming president introduced that he wished to revisit the thought of shopping for the semi-autonomous land from Denmark. Throughout his first time period within the White Home, Trump expressed a want to make a “giant actual property deal” as a result of “strategically” it might be “very good.”

Naming Paypal co-founder and former envoy to Sweden Ken Howery as his ambassador to Copenhagen, Trump declared in a Reality Social put up on Sunday that america would as soon as once more have a look at snapping up Greenland from Denmark.

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“For functions of Nationwide Safety and Freedom all through the World, america of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen swiftly rejected Trump’s preliminary 2019 proposal to purchase Greenland, calling it “absurd.” The then-president reacted by calling her “nasty” and canceling a state go to to the Danish capital. It was later reported that cosmetics inheritor Ronald Lauder had planted the thought in Trump’s head, who then floated the notion of swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland.

Lower than a month earlier than Trump takes workplace, the president-elect has made waves and sparked worldwide backlash along with his threats to both retake former U.S. territories or annex sovereign nations.

Over the weekend, the president-elect went on a social media tirade threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal over his complaints concerning the “ridiculous” charges being charged by the Panamanian authorities to delivery firms to make use of the waterway. The canal, constructed by america within the early twentieth century, was ceded to Panama in 1999 as a result of a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.

“If the rules, each ethical and authorized, of this magnanimous gesture of giving usually are not adopted, then we are going to demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and with out query,” Trump grumbled. “To the Officers of Panama, please be guided accordingly!”

Responding to Trump’s threats, which the incoming president doubled down on throughout a Sunday speech at a right-wing gathering, Panama’s conservative president José Raúl Mulino posted a video saying that “each sq. meter of the canal belongs to Panama and can proceed to belong” to his nation.

“We’ll see about that!” Trump replied on Reality Social, including one other put up with an AI picture of a United States flag over the canal zone and the caption, “Welcome to america Canal!”

Moreover, the president-elect has spent the previous few weeks trolling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the potential for making Canada an American state.

“Nobody can reply why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a 12 months? Is senseless! Many Canadians need Canada to develop into the 51st State,” Trump declared final week in a 3 a.m. put up on his social media website. “They’d save massively on taxes and army safety. I feel it’s a nice thought. 51st State!!!”