"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.

Trump has not spoken publicly about the call, choosing instead to repost on social media the results of a 2019 poll that found that 68 percent of Greenlanders supported independence from Denmark.

Amid repeated assertions from US President-elect Donald Trump over the territory of Greenland, Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told him that “only Greenland” should decide on its future, Politico reported.