Greenland's future

Frederiksen: Has proposed a conversation with Trump

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has contacted Donald Trump's team and proposed a conversation, she says, according to DR.

- We expect, hope for and are working to have as good cooperation with the future president as with the previous ones, she says.

However, Frederiksen does not believe that any conversation will take place until Trump takes office. No one from the Danish government has been in direct contact with Trump yet, she says.

The statements were made after an emergency meeting on Thursday evening. Frederiksen called all the party leaders of the Folketing to explain how the government is handling Trump's Greenland threat and its aftermath.

Information: Trump Jr. bribed homeless people with lunch to pose in Maga caps

Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to Greenland was a choreographed stunt. Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen, chairman of the Greenlandic government's foreign and security policy committee, tells Politico.

– No journalists were allowed to interview him. Everything was staged to make it appear that we, the Greenlandic people, are Maga and want to be part of the USA.

At the same time, sources for Danish DR state that residents of Nuuk, including homeless and socially vulnerable people, were bribed with lunch at a hotel to put on red Maga caps and appear in videos.

Ekstra Bladet has published a clip in which people from Trump Jr.'s team invite people on the street to the hotel and hand out caps. An elderly woman in a cap says she was offered lunch, and does not know who Trump is.

A spokesperson for Trump Jr. denies that the visit was staged, calling it "ridiculous".

Prime Minister: Greenland is entering a new era

Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede's traditional coffee break with New Year's speech in Copenhagen was covered this year by a significantly larger press contingent than usual, writes DR.

- Greenland is entering a new era, and into a new year where we have stood at the center of the entire world, Egede said in the speech.

He noted that Trump's speech and the subsequent debate had not gone unnoticed by many Greenlanders, but chose not to say anything more about it.

Egede emphasized the importance of the Greenlandic people standing united in the face of the future, and stated that Greenlanders want to be treated as equals, both in Denmark and the rest of the world.