Greenland’s prime minister said on Monday that the autonomous island is not for sale after President-elect Trump said owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity” for the U.S. “Greenland is ours.

Since his first term, President-elect Donald Trump has insisted that the United States should purchase Greenland - to the bewilderment of aides asked to investigate such a possibility, and despite repeated denials by top officials in Greenland and Denmark, of which the island is an autonomous territory, that it would ever be for sale at any price.

Greenland's Prime Minister, Mute Egede, strongly dismissed Donald Trump's remarks about U.S. ownership, asserting that Greenland is not for sale. Trump's proposal to purchase Greenland has been rejected.

President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland is not going over well with the autonomous territory’s government. The island’s prime minister was defiant in the face of the president-elect’s demands Sunday that owning the island was an “absolute necessity” for the United States.

During a Sunday rally in Arizona, Trump said that his administration would seek to regain control of the Panama Canal, wrongly claiming that the U.S. had “given” the canal to Panama, despite the fact that Panama’s control over the canal had been negotiated in a 50-year-old treaty.

President-elect Trump has revived calls for the United States to buy Greenland and complains of high fees at the Panama Canal. Some experts say his words hark back to an aggressive style he used in business.

President-elect Donald Trump has had his eyes to the north recently, with comments made about making Canada the 51 st state and most recently revisiting the idea of buying Greenland. Trump mentioned the purchase of Greenland in 2019,