The Danes don’t see us as humans,” Petersen told The Post. “They think we’re too expensive, too small a population. But they take our land, our children, our lives and expect thanks.”

The American president’s vow to get Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory, has thrown the tiny, pro-American Nordic nation into crisis.

After meeting with President Trump's top aides, Danish officials say they will form a working group to talk through U.S. security concerns about control of Greenland.

Yesterday, after Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, vowed to cast his lot with Denmark over the United States, Trump said that he didn’t “know anything about” Nielsen but that such a choice would be a “big problem for him.”

President Donald Trump’s renewed insistence that the United States should "get Greenland" has reopened a diplomatic wound between Washington and Copenhagen, reviving memories of the only time the US successfully purchased Danish territory: the 1917 acquisition of the Danish West Indies.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance.

Trump administration officials are set to meet with Danish officials about Greenland on Wednesday, diplomatic sources tell CBS News.

With Denmark’s agreement, the US operate Thule Air Base to be capable of sending American bombers across the Arctic to strike the Soviet Union and detecting missiles coming the other way. There was another base, a secret one, buried in a glacier 150 miles away.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen brushed off reports Wednesday that the Trump administration is weighing direct payments to Greenlanders to encourage them to split from Denmark.

US Vice-President JD Vance hosted ministers from Denmark and Greenland to discuss the Arctic territory's future.