Donald Trump’s comment came after a video posted by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on social media scolding his administration.

Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said there is nothing that’s stopping the Americans from setting up more bases in Greenland amid the territory’s fight to not be acquired by the

Denmark is open to discussions with the U.S. on how to "fix" the status quo in Greenland, the country's foreign minister said, after Vice President JD Vance's visit.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe and suggested the United States would better protect the semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has pressed to take over.

We are open to criticism, but let me be completely honest — we do not appreciate the tone in which its is being delivered,” Rasmussen said in a video message.

President Donald Trump said this week that the U.S. “would go as far as we have to” to take ownership of territory."

Løkke Rasmussen, in his video, reminded viewers of the 1951 defense agreement between Denmark and the United States. Since 1945, the American military presence in Greenland has decreased from thousands of soldiers over 17 bases and installations on the island, he said, to the remote Pituffik Space Base in the northwest with some 200 soldiers today.

Vice President JD Vance accused the government of Denmark of “underinvesting” in Greenland while he was making a visit to an American military base on Friday in the Danish territory, which President Trump has repeatedly insisted should become part of the United States.