Jens-Frederik Nielsen has rejected the US president’s offer to boost the Arctic island’s healthcare with a medical boat

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to send a hospital ship to the Danish self-governing territory, which Trump has long sought to acquire.

On Saturday, Trump said he would send a “great hospital boat” to the Arctic island to take care of what he called its “many people who are sick, and not being taken care of.”

Nielsen replied in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying: “it will be a no thank you from here.”

“President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here…

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