Followed live by the Danish media, Donald Trump Junior’s trip to Nuuk, capital of Greenland, on Tuesday January 7, was brief. Came “as a tourist”the eldest son of the president-elect of the United States stayed for barely five hours, time to meet some local supporters and take a selfie in front of the statue of missionary Hans Egede, founder of Nuuk in 1728 and symbol of the colonization of the largest island in the world by the Kingdom of Denmark.
If this whirlwind visit by Donald Trump’s son caused annoyance in Copenhagen, it is nothing compared to the astonishment caused by the father’s statements, during a press conference, organized the same day, in West Palm Beach , in Florida. Not ruling out seizing Greenland by force, the billionaire exclaimed: “We don’t even know if Denmark has legal rights to it, but if it does, it has to give them up, because we need them for national security reasons. » If Copenhagen refuses to give in, the president-elect says he is ready to impose “very high customs duties on Danish products”.
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