President-elect has indicated the U.S. will make Greenland purchase a priority in post about new ambassador to Denmark

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.

President-elect Donald Trump floated the idea on Sunday that the U.S. should buy the Arctic island of Greenland because of its strategic importance to the U.S. and NATO. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,