Fact check: Did Denmark play 'Send in the Clowns' song before signing US-Greenland security deal?

Key Points:

• Claims circulating on social media that Denmark deliberately played the song "Send in the Clowns" to mock US Secretary of State Marco Rubio before a US-Denmark-Greenland deal signing at the UN are false, with no evidence that Danish officials chose the music.
• The song, performed by Judy Collins and written by Stephen Sondheim, was played before President Trump entered the event, but the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed Denmark was not involved in the music selection.
• The signing ceremony marked a new security agreement allowing the US to expand its military presence in Greenland, including modernizing the Pituffik Space Base and establishing new defense areas, following months of tension over US attempts to control Greenland.
• Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, holds strategic importance for the US, and the deal aims to strengthen common security in the Arctic and North Atlantic, with support from NATO leadership.
• The US currently operates one base in Greenland used for missile warning and space surveillance, and the new agreement grants the US free access and movement across defense areas on the island by land, air, and sea.