WATCH: President Trump says Danish PM’s comments on his interest in buying Greenland were “nasty.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen"nasty" and accused her of not showing respect to the U.S. after she rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory.
"She’s not talking to me, she’s talking to the United States of America. You don’t talk to the United States that way," he added. Frederiksen said at a news conference that she had been"looking forward to having a dialogue on the many shared interests that Denmark has with U.S.," including developments in the Arctic, which"call for further cooperation between the U.S. and Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark.”
“This does not change the character of our good relations, and we will of course, from Denmark, continue our ongoing dialogue with the U.S. on how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing," she said.
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