Mute Egede promised continued goodwill but said his country has no interest in becoming part of the United States

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University found a little more than half of Americans don't support Donald Trump's proposal to acquire Greenland.

The territory's apparent barrenness belies its richness in key 21st-century resources — and this isn't the first time the United States has tried to take it.

Trump’s talk of acquiring the island has raised the profile of Greenland, but it has also prompted some anxieties

Incoming US President Donald Trump has said he wants to buy the gargantuan island of Greenland, which belongs to Denmark. Many Greenlanders want nothing to do with Trump's initiative, while others have signaled interest.

Donald Trump wants Greenland. The vast, sparsely populated Arctic island has been under Danish control for 300 years, but back in 2019, when he was last president, he floated the idea of buying it. He recently reiterated that,

It's no secret that Greenlanders broadly do not care for President-elect Donald Trump's increasingly obsessive demands for Denmark to sell their island to the United States. Nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday,