A high-stakes meeting is expected Wednesday at the White House between top U.S. and Danish officials about Greenland's fate.

President Donald Trump has had his sights set on Greenland for years. He first offered to buy the island, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, in 2019 during his first term in what he described as “essentially a real estate deal.

President Trump argued the U.S. must acquire Greenland to prevent Russia or China from taking over, claiming Arctic territory has minimal defenses amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Trump insists the U.S. must take control of Greenland to prevent Russia or China from doing the same — an argument Beijing dismissed Monday as "an excuse" to pursue territorial ambitions.

President Donald Trump is not the first U.S. government official interested in Greenland. The first major attempt to control the island was in 1868.

President Trump on Friday continued to press for U.S. control of Greenland, telling reporters: "We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not."

The comedian threw cold water on the president's claims and slammed him for "doing some weird reverse-woke land acknowledgement.”

Trump told reporters that Greenland's only defense is 'two dog sleds,' as the Arctic island government warns it 'cannot accept' a US takeover.