The president chose Trump that “Greenland would do again”
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Donald Trump Jr. has reached the capital of Greenland, Nuuk for a tour.
The scale on Tuesday comes some time after his father, the president -elect of the United States, Donald Trump, reiterated his interest in the Arctic Island rich in resources.
Trump Jr. arrived on his father’s “Trump Force One” personal plane around 1250 GMT, according to a feed from Nuuk Airport and flight-tracking sites.
The visit to a freezing, snow-covered Nuuk was expected to last four to five hours, and no meetings were scheduled with government officials, a local official told Reuters.
“No, I’m not buying Greenland,” Trump Jr. said in a podcast on Monday, alluding to his father’s recent comments. “Interestingly, I’m really doing a very long day not public to Greenland. “
Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, geographically constitutes the American continent, and its capital Nuuk is to New York City than the Copenhagen of the Danish capital.
Nuuk map in Greenland:
On Monday, the president -elect Trump congratulated the island on his social media platform Truth Social, promising to “do Greenland again!”
“Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation,” he wrote.
Trump added that his son visited Greenland to see “some of the magnificent maximum spaces and sites. “
In 2019, Trump postponed a planned for Denmark after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen returned to his concept that the United States had bought Greenland.
Trump, who occupies the workplace on January 20, has indicated that he will pursue a foreign policy to discredit through diplomatic subtleties, threatening to take the Panama Canal and point out last month that the United States of Greenland is a “need” need absolute “.
Denmark, a close NATO ally, has seen relations with Greenland worsen in recent years, prompted by revelations of misconduct by its former colonial ruler Denmark.
The Prime Minister of Greenland, Mute Egede, said that the island was not on sale, but in his New Year’s speech, a greater impulse for the independence of Denmark.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen told TV2 on Tuesday: “We want very close cooperation with the Americans. “
“On the other hand, I would like to inspire everyone to respect that Greenlanders are a people, it is their country and that only Greenland can and will outline Greenland’s long streak,” he said. (
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Donald Trump Jr. has arrived in Nuuk
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