Escalating an international spat, President Donald Trump said Wednesday he scrapped his trip to Denmark because the prime minister made a "nasty" statement when she rejected his idea to buy Greenland as an absurdity.
"You don't talk to the United States that way, at least under me," Trump told reporters in Washington.
"I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off."
I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to say was say, 'No, we wouldn't be interested.'"
"The invitation for a stronger strategic cooperation with the Americans in the Arctic is still open," Frederiksen said, adding "the United States is one of our closest allies."
Martin Lidegaard, a former Danish foreign minister, told broadcaster TV2 that it was "a diplomatic farce" and Trump's behaviour was "grotesque."