Trump’s statements about Greenland are generally discussed as an attack on a NATO ally, Denmark. But primarily and above all, they are an attack on the Greenlanders themselves, a people that is 90% Indigenous Inuit and that, in recent years, has been in the process of assuming its own sovereignty, and eventually independence.
The trumpist discourse is that of very old school colonialism: Greenland is a Terra Nullius that is not being adequately exploited by its population (“there are only 60,000 people on a vast and resource-rich territory!”). This is the frame of reference for the colonization of the Americas since the time of Columbus.
This kind of framing is very unfortunately reproduced by well meaning cartoons that try to underline the ridiculousness of the trumpist position by showing Greenland as an ice sheet with only some polar bears or musk ox or sled dogs, sometimes even waving little danish flags.
But Greenland is not some pristine ice cap populated by seals and bears, it is the ancestral land of the Greenlander Inuit! This is why it is important, I think, for the rest of us to try as much as possible to center them Greenlanders and their sovereignty.