"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Europe sending troops to Greenland would not change Donald Trump's mind about 'acquiring' the territory, as she wrapped her briefing in DC on Thursday. "I don't think troops in Europe impact the president's decision-making process, or nor does it impact his goal of the acquisition of Greenland at all," she said. Leavitt also quipped that 'men cannot get pregnant... I can attest to that', when asked about a doctor who had not given a straight answer to a Senate hearing. She is pregnant with her second child. On Thursday, NATO countries announced they were sending a handful of soldiers - with UK and Netherlands sending just one each. Trump is locked in an ongoing row with Greenland and Denmark over the Arctic territory. On Wednesday, Trump reiterated that he 'needed' Greenland for 'national security', after the foreign ministers of both Denmark and Greenland held crunch talks with Marco Rubio and JD Vance. "If we don't go in, Russia is going to go in, and China is going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything about it," Trump claimed, while joking that all Denmark had done was 'send an extra dog sled'. Earlier, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen appeared to accuse the US of lying about 'Chinese warships' near Greenland, saying it was "not a true narrative". Earlier this week, the UK, France and Germany discussed deploying NATO troops to the region, which some media reports suggested was about 'easing Trump's security fears' and others claimed that it was about 'deterring' the US president. Trump has repeatedly said he wanted control of the Danish territory since his re-election in 2024, with it triggering debate over Greenland's own difficult relationship with its former Danish coloniser."