Joint statement issued after US president reiterated his belief that Washington will eventually control the Arctic island

Both Canada and Greenland, which is included in NATO as the territory of founding member Denmark, were raised during an informal press conference in the Oval Office. In the meeting, Trump also applied new pressure on the trans-Atlantic alliance to spend more on its collective defense.

The man likely to become Greenland's next prime minister has rejected Donald Trump 's bid to take over the island. Jens-Frederik Nielsen pushed back against the US President's repeated threats to annex Greenland, which is part of Denmark.