Donald Trump Jr. flew to Greenland this week and filmed a video there in which local residents allegedly ask to “save the island.” A lawmaker from Greenland’s largest party called the visit a “spectacle” and gave details.
The eldest son of the elected US president “played along” with his father amid his provocative statements regarding the annexation of the island to the United States. Trump Jr. met with local residents who, in published videos, claim that Greenland loves America and Trump.
But Pipaluk Linge, a lawmaker from Greenland’s largest party and head of parliament’s foreign policy and security committee, called Trump Jr.’s visit to the island “staged” and warned the U.S. against an “invasion” given its historical treatment of Alaska’s indigenous population.
She said that the so-called “walks” of the famous guest around the island were just a carefully planned show.
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No journalist was allowed to interview him. It was all staged to make it seem like we Greenlanders were MAGA and wanted to be part of the US,” Linge said.
Local media reported that Trump Jr.’s camp handed out MAGA hats to residents on the day of the visit, and video footage from the trip showed the president-elect’s son talking to Greenlanders on speakerphone during lunch.
Linge emphasized that outside the camera lenses of the camera operators accompanying Trump Jr., the visit “was not entirely warm.”
People were interested, but some took pictures, giving him the finger at the airport… Some wrote on Facebook: “Yankee, go home,” she said.
Trump Jr.’s spokesman, of course, objected that the visit was staged and called the criticism “ridiculous.”
We know how they feel about the Inuit in Alaska. Do this better before you try to invade us,” Linge replied.
Alaska Natives—part of the indigenous peoples who inhabit the Arctic regions of North America, like the Greenlandic Inuit—face a wide range of economic, educational and health disparities, including some of the highest rates of alcoholism and suicide, and some of the lowest in the United States. In the 1970s. The U.S. Congress passed legislation directly granting Alaska Natives financial compensation and land rights, and their political influence has grown significantly in recent years.
But historically they were also subject to segregation, including boarding schools that attempted to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, and Jim Crow laws.
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