Spectacular icescapes, high mountains, tundra and unique wildlife: Greenland offers countless motifs for impressive photos and videos.

That's the reason Donald Trump, Jr., gave for his trip to Greenland on Tuesday. He said he was visiting to gather material for a podcast.

"As someone who has travelled to some fascinating places across the globe as an outdoorsman, I'm excited to stop into Greenland for a little bit of fun this week," Trump Jr. told the US broadcaster Fox News before his visit.

Yet, the self-proclaimed nature lover Trump Jr.'s Instagram profile contains many political posts supporting his father, and the apparent vacation was overshadowed by the US president-elect's claims Greenland should become part of the United States.

Since winning the US presidential election in November, the elder Donald Trump has called for US control of several places outside the country.

He would like to see the Panama Canal back under US sovereignty, and, after threatening its northern neighbor Canada with punitive tariffs, Trump even brought up a merger of the two North American giants as an alternative, which Canadian officials have strenuously rejected.

Asked Tuesday whether he could promise not to use military or economic coercion to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, Trump said: "No, I can't assure you on either of those two. But I can say this, we need them for economic security."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday said EU leaders were taken aback by Trump's failure to reject military action against Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

"In my discussions with our European partners, there has been a notable........

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