This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and Americans are used to President Donald Trump's threats by now.

But the people of Greenland are getting a crash course.

The view that Trump would want to own a large piece of real estate here is alien to the very core of culture and existence here.

So alien.

Why no one on the island is laughing this one off.

Stick around.

Greenland is gigantic.

Not in population, just 57,000 people live there. But in terms of land,

it's 836,000 square miles of ice, snow, and natural resources located smack dab between the

U.S. and Europe. People who do live there keep alive Inuit traditions like seal and whale hunting.

The Arctic Island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, kind of like how Puerto Rico operates

in relation to the U.S.

It has its own rules, on government, etc.

Net comparison is a useful one, because if Trump had his way, Greenland would be a U.S. territory.

We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and the European Union needs us to have it.

I have an official statement from the press secretary, Carolyn Levitt, essentially saying that the administration is looking at a range of options

in order to acquire Greenland and that military action is not off the table.

Now, the U.S. has tried to acquire Greenland before.

After the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward

floated the idea of buying Greenland

and Iceland from Denmark. Nothing came of it.

In 1910, the U.S. ambassador to Denmark wrote to the Assistant Secretary of State suggesting

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