WASHINGTON — President Trump said Saturday that he was dispatching a hospital boat to Greenland shortly after news broke that Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command evacuated a crew member from a US Navy submarine.

Denmark’s military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday that he was sending a hospital ship to Greenland, alleging many people there are sick and not receiving care, even though both of the U.S. Navy’s hospital ships were undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in Alabama at the time he posted.

Greenland doesn’t need Trump’s hospital boat - we have free healthcare, says prime minister - ‘President Trump’s idea to send a U.S. hospital ship here to Greenland has been duly noted. But we have a

Greenland's prime minister rejects Trump's hospital ship offer, saying the territory has free healthcare unlike America where "it costs money to go to the doctor."

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24. She is giving voters a say several months early as the