Effectively, that is awkward.
However the reporter didn’t encounter scores of Trump followers who need the nation to be taken over by the U.S. As an alternative, the reporter mentioned that “most” of the folks she spoke to had been towards Trump’s plan to accumulate the territory.
“I want to stick with Danish … government,” one other particular person interviewed by Fox mentioned. (Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.)
Trump has had a weird fixation with annexing Greenland since at the very least 2019, when he first saber-rattled about shopping for the island.
He had gone quiet in regards to the concept till after he gained the 2024 election. And now, as soon as once more, he’s saying that the U.S. ought to take management of Greenland, going so far as saying he could use army power to accumulate the land.
Earlier in January, Trump despatched his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to the nation to attempt to construct assist among the many folks for a U.S. acquisition. However Greenlandic politicians described Jr.’s go to as a staged public-relations stunt.
Donald Trump Jr., middle, poses after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 7, 2025.
Actually, a Danish media outlet reported that the pro-Trump of us whom Trump Jr. featured in pictures he posted of his go to included unhoused individuals who had been provided free lunch in alternate for carrying MAGA gear.
“They are being bribed, and it is deeply distasteful,” Tom Amtoft, a Greenland resident, instructed the Danish outlet, in line with Google’s translation of the remark.
Trump additionally posted a video of a person in Greenland carrying MAGA gear, saying, “I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA.’” However apparently unbeknownst to Trump, the person within the video is a convicted drug trafficker, in line with a Danish media outlet.
In the end, officers from each Greenland and Denmark officers say the arctic territory is not going to grow to be a part of the US.
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Greenland’s prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, mentioned in a press release.
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