A senior lawmaker in Greenland slammed Donald Trump Jr.’s go to to the sovereign nation, calling it a “staged” occasion and saying that actual Greenlandians don’t wish to be taken over by the US—it doesn’t matter what Donald Trump and his son say.
Trump despatched his son to Greenland on Tuesday to fulfill with native residents and persuade them that being taken over by the US could be actually nice, belief him!
However Greenland parliamentarian Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen instructed Politico Europe that the occasion was a sham, amounting to nothing greater than a PR stunt to make it appear like the folks of Greenland wish to be annexed by the US, when in actuality they very a lot don’t.
“No journalists were allowed to interview him. It was all staged to make it seem like we—the Greenlandic people—were MAGA and love to be a part of the USA,” Lynge-Rasmussen mentioned.
She added, “People were curious, but some took pictures giving him [the] finger at the airport … Some wrote on Facebook: ‘Yankee go home.’”
Trump has been all bluster about his want to buy Greenland, even suggesting that he may seize the nation by navy drive—a wild and harmful assertion of which members of his personal occasion are usually not certain what to make.
However Lynge-Rasmussen says that a part of the rationale Greenland won’t ever be a part of the US is due to the best way Trump treats Alaskan Natives, who’re much like Greenland’s inhabitants of Inuit descent.
“We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska,” she instructed Politico. “Make that great before trying to invade us.”
Each Trump and his son, nonetheless, appeared more than happy with their PR stunt.
Trump Jr. posted images on X after arriving within the nation, and the president-elect claimed to be “hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA,’” in a submit on Fact Social that included a video of a person in Greenland donning a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Sarcastically, the person in that video, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug seller and violent legal, based on a Danish media outlet. How becoming that he’s a fan of the felon-elect.
In any occasion, Greenland’s officers have mentioned a number of occasions that they won’t develop into 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 after Trump first expressed his want to amass the nation in December.
“Greenland is not MAGA; Greenland is not going to be MAGA,” Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenland resident and member of the Danish Parliament, instructed CNN on Tuesday.
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“Greenland is not MAGA; Greenland is not going to be MAGA.”
A Greenlandic member of the Danish Parliament hits again as Trump doubles down on shopping for Greenland pic.twitter.com/EhvClIsBzA
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) January 8, 2025
However Greenland just isn’t the one place Trump has his eye on.
On Tuesday, Trump made a submit on Fact Social of a map of the US and Canada, each of that are overlaid with the American flag, and the caption, “Oh Canada!” That very same day, he introduced plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Trump, saying that she goes to rename the US “Mexican America,” as parts of the US have been initially Mexican territory.
Equally, chief of the Inexperienced Celebration of Canada Elizabeth Might provided to simply accept Washington, Oregon, and California as new Canadian provinces.
Finally, it’s unclear why Trump is on this bizarro imperialist streak, however his menace to take over these nations with navy or financial drive actually goes in opposition to his marketing campaign promise to finish U.S. involvement in wars.
It’s going to be an extended—and really silly—4 years.
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