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'If Trump tried to buy Greenland, he would have to ask London first,' Tom Høyem, who acted as Copenhagen's representative on Greenland from 1982 to 1987, told The Times. 'The United Kingdom demanded in 1917 that if Greenland were to be sold then the UK should have the first right to buy it.'

The agreement was crafted when US President Woodrow Wilson purchased the US Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25million. He was urged to buy Greenland, but Copenhagen refused and would only move forward with the deal if America signed a letter acknowledging Greenland 'is and will forever be Danish'.

Trump's fixation on Greenland is part of his broader desire for American expansionism. He has called for Canada to declare itself a US state, demanded that Panama return control of the Panama Canal and has renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

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