“ Canada is a sovereign state, yes ,” Pete Hoekstra told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He’s a former congressman who served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands in President Donald Trump ’s first term.

President Donald Trump said that he thought that the potential annexation of Greenland by the United States would happen. Trump defended that idea, saying the U.S. needs Greenland "for international security.

In a rare show of unity, party leaders say they "cannot accept the repeated statements about the annexation of Greenland."