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.

A bipartisan congressional delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic officials Friday to show support for Greenland's territorial integrity despite President Trump's push to acquire the island.

Denmark's foreign minister said the closed-door meeting was a "frank but also constructive" discussion. He said a high-level working group would be formed "to explore if we can find a common way forward.

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.”

The 2016 footage is cast new light after Trump’s threats to take the Danish territory of Greenland “whether they like it or not”

Russia said NATO members were bolstering their military presences in the Arctic territory “under the false pretext of a growing threat from Moscow and Beijing.”

In recent days, Trump has continued to express his desire to claim Greenland for the United States. The island is currently an autonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the U.S.

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up their military presence on the island and allied reinforcements are expected to follow with Sweden confirming a deployment of military officers to the Arctic at Denmark’s request, according to a statement by prime minister Ulf Kristersson.