A senior lawmaker in Greenland slammed Donald Trump Jr.’s latest go to, calling it a “staged” occasion and saying that actual Greenlandians don’t need to be taken over by the USA—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 USA can be actually nice, belief him!
However Greenland parliamentarian Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen informed Politico Europe that the occasion was a sham, amounting to nothing greater than a PR stunt to make it appear to be the folks of Greenland need to be annexed by the USA, when in actuality they very a lot don’t.
“No journalists had been allowed to interview him. It was all staged to make it appear to be we—the Greenlandic folks—had been MAGA and like to be part of the USA,” Lynge-Rasmussen mentioned.
She added, “Folks had been curious, however some took photos giving him [the] finger on the airport … Some wrote on Fb: ‘Yankee go house.’”
Trump has been all bluster about his need to buy Greenland—an autonomous Danish territory—even suggesting that he may seize the nation by army power. It’s a wild and harmful assertion of which members of his personal get together aren’t positive what to make.
However Lynge-Rasmussen says that a part of the rationale Greenland won’t ever be a part of the USA is due to the way in which Trump treats Alaskan Natives, who’re just like Greenland’s inhabitants of Inuit descent.
“We all know how they deal with the Inuit in Alaska,” she informed Politico. “Make that nice earlier than making an attempt to invade us.”
Each Trump and his son, nonetheless, appeared very happy with their PR stunt.
Trump Jr. posted pictures on X after arriving within the nation, and the president-elect claimed to be “listening to that the folks of Greenland are ‘MAGA,’” in a publish on Reality Social that included a video of a person in Greenland donning a “Make America Nice Once more” hat.
Mockingly, the person in that video, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug vendor and violent prison, in keeping with 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 turn out to be a part of the USA.
“Greenland is ours. We’re not on the market and can by no means be on the market. We should not lose our lengthy wrestle for freedom,” Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede mentioned in a press release after Trump first expressed his need to accumulate the nation in December.
“Greenland just isn’t MAGA; Greenland just isn’t going to be MAGA,” Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenland resident and member of the Danish Parliament, informed CNN on Tuesday.
However Greenland just isn’t the one place Trump has his eye on.
On Tuesday, Trump made a publish on Reality Social of a map of the USA 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 USA “Mexican America,” as parts of the USA had been initially Mexican territory.
Equally, chief of the Inexperienced Social gathering of Canada Elizabeth Could supplied to just 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 international locations with army or financial power definitely goes towards his marketing campaign promise to finish U.S. involvement in wars.
It’s going to be an extended—and really silly—4 years.
Correction: A earlier model of this story incorrectly described Greenland as a sovereign nation. It’s a Danish autonomous territory.