US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared texts sent to him by French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte shortly after stating that he would be meeting with world leaders to discuss Greenland at this week's Davos World Economic Forum.
"We have to have it. They have to have this done. They can't protect it, Denmark, they're wonderful people," Trump told reporters.
"I know the leaders, they're very good people, but they don't even go there."
In Rutte's message, the secretary general praised Trump's accomplishments in Syria as "incredible."
"I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work there, in Gaza, and in Ukraine. I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland," he wrote.
Trump also stated that he'd had a "very good telephone" with Rutte about Greenland.
"As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back - On that, everyone agrees!" Trump wrote.
Trump shares messages with France's Macron
"We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland," Macron wrote to Trump in a message which was confirmed as authentic by a source close to the French president.
"The French President defends the same line in public as in private," the source said.
In the message, Macron also asked about meeting in Paris after the Davos forum.