Danish King Tweaks Coat Of Arms To Enlarge Greenland Symbol As Trump Vies For Territorial Expansion

King Frederik X of Denmark tweaked his country’s royal coat of arms to enlarge symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands in December amid President-elect Donald Trump’s overtures to acquire the Danish territory.

The king revised the coat of arms, which for 500 years featured three crowns representing an historic union between Denmark, Sweden and Norway, to remove the crowns entirely, according to a statement from Denmark’s Royal House. The new design enlarges two symbols — a ram for the Faroe Islands and a polar bear for Greenland — to occupy their own quadrants.

The design update follows Frederik X’s insistence during a New Year’s Day address that Denmark, Greenland and other Commonwealth nations “belong together,” seeming to signal anxiety over the president-elect’s increasing calls for annexation of the territory.

Following his November election victory, Trump ramped up his effort to purchase Greenland “for the purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” calling the acquisition “an absolute necessity” in a Truth Social post on Dec. 22.