Greenland has rejected the Trump administration's push to take over the Danish territory. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"President Trump's idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted," Nielsen wrote in a translated Facebook post. "But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens.
"It is a deliberate choice."
Greenland remains open to dialogue and cooperation with the U.S., with a caveat, according to Nielsen.
"But talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media," Nielsen said in his own public Facebook protestation.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is rejecting President Donald Trump's offer to send a U.S. military hospital ship to Greenland, suggesting Denmark's public healthcare system is sufficient. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Frederiksen spun the Trump offer into a political debate on public healthcare.
"Am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all," Frederiksen wrote in a translated post, sharing a Democrat attack point on Trump's Republican Party's struggles to reform what Trump has rebuked as a "failure" of Obamacare. "Where it's not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment. You have the same approach in Greenland."
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The U.S. Navy has two hospital ships, the Mercy and the Comfort. Both were last docked in Alabama for repairs, according to Reuters.
Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.
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