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 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 satisfy 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 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 stated.
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 need to buy Greenland, even suggesting that he might seize the nation by army power—a wild and harmful assertion of which members of his personal get together should not positive what to make.
However Lynge-Rasmussen says that a part of the explanation Greenland won’t ever be a part of the USA 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 informed Politico. “Make that great before trying to invade us.”
Each Trump and his son, nevertheless, 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 put up on Fact Social that included a video of a person in Greenland donning a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Mockingly, the person in that video, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug seller and violent felony, based on a Danish media outlet. How becoming that he’s a fan of the felon-elect.
In any occasion, Greenland’s officers have stated a number of occasions that they won’t turn out to be a part of the USA.
“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 stated in a press release after Trump first expressed his need to accumulate 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, informed CNN on Tuesday.
However Greenland just isn’t the one place Trump has his eye on.
On Tuesday, Trump made a put up on Fact 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 Celebration of Canada Elizabeth Might supplied to just accept Washington, Oregon, and California as new Canadian provinces.
In the end, it’s unclear why Trump is on this bizarro imperialist streak, however his risk to take over these nations with army or financial power actually goes in opposition to his marketing campaign promise to finish U.S. involvement in wars.
It’s going to be a protracted—and really silly—4 years.
