In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Saturday, President Donald Trump said he is actively pursuing annexing Greenland and has “absolutely” had real conversations about taking over the semiautonomous Danish territory.

“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said, adding that there is a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that he wouldn’t “take anything off the table.”

Trump’s claims come after Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance visited Greenland this week and went to Pituffik Space Base, a US Space Force base there, to speak to service members.

When Trump was asked what annexing Greenland would do for international relations with Russia and how the move could be perceived by the rest of the world, the president said he wasn't concerned.

“I don’t really think about that. I don’t really care. Greenland’s a very separate subject, very different. It’s international peace. It’s international security and strength.” Earlier this week, Trump said that the US would "go as far as we have to go" to get control of Greenland. Trump has reportedly been musing about buying or acquiring Greenland since 2019.

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede described the visit by Vance and others this week as a “very aggressive American pressure against the Greenlandic community.” A pressure campaign, he said, that the international community should rebuke.