Greenland’s population is overwhelmingly against leaving the Danish realm in favor of the U.S., dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s insistence the island is keen to join.

A Verian poll, commissioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenland’s Sermitsiaq publication, showed 85% of the population on the self-ruling Arctic territory don’t want to be part of the U.S. About 6% said they’d prefer the country over Denmark and 9% were undecided, according to the survey published Tuesday.

Trump insists he wants to take over the world’s largest island for security reasons and has refused to rule out using force. He has also argued Greenland’s population would prefer to be part of the U.S. His interest in the territory stems from his first term in office.

"The people of Greenland are not happy with Denmark,” Trump said Jan. 21. "You know, I think they’re happy with us.”

That view is not shared by Greenland’s leaders, many of whom are, instead, pushing for independence. While the island is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, its 57,000 inhabitants have extensive home rule.

"We don’t want to be Danish, we don’t want to be American, we of course want to be Greenlandic,” the territory’s prime minister, Mute B. Egede, said recently.

Meanwhile, Denmark is doing its best to navigate the spat with Trump. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen earlier on Tuesday worked to drum up support from European allies with a whirlwind tour of Berlin, Paris and Berlin, seeking to project unity while avoiding antagonizing the U.S. president.

"Trump shouldn’t have Greenland,” Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, told local media in Copenhagen on Tuesday. "Greenland is Greenland. The Greenlandic people are a people also in the sense of international law,” and they ultimately determine their situation.

The poll had 497 interviews conducted on the internet from Jan. 22 to 26, including a representative sample of Greenlandic citizens aged 18 or older. Statistical uncertainty on the responses is about 3.1 percentage points.

The poll also showed 45% of Greenlanders view Trump’s interest in Greenland as a threat, Berlingske said. Only about 8% would take a U.S. passport if they had to make an instant choice between Danish and U.S. citizenship, according to the newspaper.