Trump Once Vowed to ‘Own’ Greenland. He Settled for Something Much Less. President Trump signed a Greenland security deal that falls well short of his demands to turn the island into a U.S. territory.

On Tuesday, he signed a document that paves the way to expanding the U.S. military presence on the island, opening new bases. But it explicitly stops short of conveying any territory to the United States. And no one — especially Denmark, which governs the vas…