Donald Trump Jr is heading for Greenland, two weeks after his father repeated his want for the US to take management of the autonomous Danish territory.
The US president-elect’s son mentioned he was going as a vacationer on a “very lengthy, private, day-trip”, to speak to folks, and had no conferences deliberate with authorities officers.
Forward of his son’s journey, Donald Trump revived an argument he ignited final month when he mentioned “possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for US nationwide safety.
Throughout his first time period as president, Trump had expressed an curiosity in shopping for the Arctic island. He has been rebuffed by Greenland’s leaders on each events.
“We’re not on the market and we is not going to be on the market,” the island’s Prime Minister, Mute Bourup Egede, mentioned in December. “Greenland belongs to the folks of Greenland.”
With a inhabitants of 57,000, Greenland has wide-ranging autonomy, however its economic system is essentially depending on subsidies from Copenhagen and it stays a part of the dominion of Denmark.
Egede had been on account of meet King Frederik in Copenhagen on Wednesday, however the assembly was postponed due to what the Greenland prime minister known as “calendar gymnastics”.
The Danish authorities has mentioned little in regards to the president-elect’s son’s go to, mentioning that it was not an official journey.
“We have now famous the deliberate go to of Donald Trump Jr to Greenland. As it isn’t an official American go to, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Denmark has no additional remark to the go to,” the ministry instructed BBC Information.
Nevertheless, a number of opposition politicians have expressed concern.
Conservative MP Rasmus Jarlov posted on social media in English that “this stage of disrespect from the approaching US president in direction of very, very loyal allies and buddies is record-setting”.
President-elect Trump confirmed his son’s journey on his Fact Social social media platform on Monday.
He mentioned Don Jr and “varied representatives” would journey to Greenland “to go to a number of the most luxurious areas and sights”.
Trump added that Greenland and its folks “will profit tremendously if, and when, it turns into a part of our nation”.
“We are going to shield it, and cherish it, from a really vicious outdoors world,” he mentioned. “Make Greenland nice once more!”
Donald Trump Jr, 47, then confirmed his go to on his podcast, Triggered. “No, I’m not shopping for Greenland,” he mentioned, explaining he cherished Greenland and was flying there on his father’s non-public jet, nicknamed Trump Pressure One.
The president-elect’s submit additionally included a video that includes an unnamed Greenlander- carrying a crimson Make America Nice Once more hat – telling Trump to purchase Greenland and free it from “being colonised” by Denmark.
The id of the person within the clip is unclear.
Greenland lies on the shortest route from North America to Europe, making it strategically essential for the US. Additionally it is residence to a big American house facility.
The president-elect’s eldest son performed a key function in the course of the 2024 US election marketing campaign, often showing at rallies and within the media.
Hours after President-elect Trump repeated his curiosity in shopping for Greenland final month, the Danish authorities introduced a big increase in defence spending for the island. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen described the announcement’s timing as an “irony of destiny”.
On Monday, King Frederik X modified the royal coat of arms to extra prominently function representations of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Some have seen this as a rebuke to Trump, nevertheless it might additionally show controversial with Greenland’s separatist motion.
King Frederik used his New Yr’s deal with to say the Kingdom of Denmark was united “all the way in which to Greenland”, including “we belong collectively”.
However Greenland’s prime minister used his personal New Yr’s speech to push for independence from Denmark, saying the island should break away from “the shackles of colonialism”.
