US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows after claiming at Davos that the US effectively controlled Greenland during World ...

"All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago," Trump said.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the US gave Greenland to Denmark after World War 2 ...

During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, January 23, Trump claimed that the US once owned Greenland and later gave it to Denmark. Trump said the US was ‘stupid’ to return ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States ‘gave Greenland back’ to Denmark after World War II. His remarks ...

In Trump’s message, sent Jan. 18, he said, "Why (does Denmark) have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had ...

Historical records and international law do not support the claim that the US ever owned or controlled Greenland's sovereignty.

Although the US defended Greenland during World War II, it never possessed the nation, and so could not have given it back.