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Trump to Greenland last night: “Exactly what I feared”

Emil Forsberg

Published 2025-01-06 23.59

Donald Trump Jr has gone to Greenland. Photo: Allison Joyce / AP

Donald Trump wants to make Greenland part of the USA.

Now his eldest son is on his way to the island.

– Exactly what I feared, says Danish Enhedslist spokesperson Pelle Dragsted.

On Monday, a Trump delegation landed by private jet in Greenland's capital Nuuk.

And on Tuesday, the future president’s son Donald Trump  Jr will also arrive in what is described as a “surprise visit”, reports Danish TV2.

According to the TV channel, Trump Jr has no official visits scheduled during his stay.

But Trump has expressed his desire to buy Greenland for several years, and reiterated his desire as recently as before Christmas.

“For national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States feels that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote at the time on Truth Social.

The announcement is described as bad news for the Kingdom of Denmark, which controls the world’s largest island.

“Exactly what I feared. When Mette F. plays hide-and-seek and doesn’t speak out clearly, Trump will get blood on his teeth with his neo-colonial ambitions,” writes Pelle Dragsted, spokesperson for the Danish party Enhedslist, on X.

Greenland. Archive. Photo: Felipe Dana / AP

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has repeatedly denied that Greenland is for sale. Something that prompted Donald Trump to cancel a state visit to Denmark when he was last in power.

“Denmark is a very special country with amazing people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments that she does not want to discuss a sale of Greenland, I am postponing our planned meeting in two weeks until another time,” he wrote at the time.

Trump’s new offensive is being cheered on by the pair horse Elon Musk who writes that Greenland will become part of the United States.

“The Greenlandic people must determine their own future, and I believe they would like to be part of America,” he writes on X.

            

          

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Greenlandic MP Aaja Chemnitz from the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, writes on X that Greenland must get better at saying no to Trump.

“I do not want to be a pawn in Trump’s hot dreams of expanding his empire to include our country. Do not let Trump control the Greenlandic election campaign and leave the population as losers in that game,” she writes on Facebook.

Greenland's provincial government chairman, Múte B. Egede, clearly rejected the idea that Greenland was for sale just before Christmas.

"Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale," she wrote in a comment to Ritzau.