Trump has repeatedly said in the past that he would like to annex Greenland. However, he has not said the same of Alaska. The president never posted the above statement on Truth Social. In mid-March 2025, a screenshot spread widely online purportedly showing a post from U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social account ( archived ).

In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked,

Donald Trump has struck an increasingly imperialistic tone since his White House return, stating on multiple occasions his desire to annex the Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and the Gaza Strip