But this visit also caused a lot of ink to be spilled. Trump Jr was notably filmed eating at the Hans Egede Hotel with a group of people wearing “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) caps, Donald Trump’s slogan. During the meal, the president-elect’s son broadcast through a loudspeaker his father’s words touting a deal with Greenland and saying: “We are going to treat you well.” If the guests at Trump Jr’s meal appeared to be true supporters of his father, several Greenlanders say that was absolutely not the case.
Fake Donald Trump supporters?
Starting with Pipaluk Lynge, member of the territory’s largest political party and chair of the parliamentary committee on foreign and security policy. Speaking to Politico, she lamented that “everything was staged to make people believe that the Greenlandic people were ‘MAGA’ and would like to be part of the United States.” She explained that no journalist had been able to interview Trump Jr and that he had not been particularly warmly welcomed by the residents.
Local media also assured that Trump’s son’s teams had distributed MAGA caps to several people on the day of the visit. This is corroborated by the statements of the general manager of the hotel Hans Egede. Speaking to the Guardian, he said: Trump Jr. “had just met them in the street and invited them for dinner, him or his team. But I don’t think they knew who was inviting them.” “It was obviously a bit strange for us, as we saw guests that we had never seen in our hotel before – and will probably never see again, because they can’t afford it” , he added.
A spokesperson for Trump Jr denied any staging and replied that these criticisms were “ridiculous”. “Cameras followed him from the second he arrived to the second he left. Did they miss the moment when he allegedly recruited homeless people for dinner?” he quipped, in a response sent to the Guardian.
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