Thousands of people took to the streets across Denmark to protest US President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of Greenland, underscoring the deep unease over the future of the Arctic island.

Protesters in Denmark and Greenland demonstrated on Saturday against President Donald Trump's demand that the Arctic

I think you will find that support in Congress to acquire Greenland in any way is not there,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told NBC News.

Leaders from Greenland and Denmark are slated to meet Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at White House, as Trump weighs acquiring Greenland for security.

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.”

Denmark’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that a “fundamental disagreement” with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of Greenland remained unresolved after high-level talks in Washington, even as Denmark and NATO allies moved to increase their military presence in the Arctic territory amid rising tensions.

President Donald Trump says controlling Greenland is essential to prevent Russia and China from gaining more of a foothold in the Arctic. But a number of concerned European officials and a growing, bipartisan contingent of lawmakers in Washington believe that Trump’s insistence that the U.