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Donald Trump Jr will go to Greenland Tuesday, at the same time as his father triggers native anger by renewing his push to make the Danish territory a part of the U.S.
The elder Trump introduced on his social community Reality Social on Monday that Don Jr and “numerous representatives” would quickly be touring the island’s “magnificent areas and sights.”
The soon-to-be president added: “Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
The Danish authorities confirmed to CNN that Trump’s eldest son would arrive on Tuesday, however declined to remark additional because it was “not an official American go to.”
Trump has advocated for the USA to take over Greenland, even calling it an “absolute necessity,” regardless of outright opposition from Greenland’s folks and its authorities.
“For functions of Nationwide Safety and Freedom all through the World, the USA of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump stated ominously final month.
Greenland’s prime minister Múte Egede responded: “we aren’t on the market and by no means can be on the market.”
The King of Denmark additionally modified the nation’s royal coat of arms to make the symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, one other Danish territory, extra outstanding, in an obvious rebuke to Trump.
Nonetheless, on Monday Trump claimed: “I’m listening to that the folks of Greenland are ‘Maga,’” referring to his diehard supporters.
He hooked up a video in his put up of a lone Greenlander in a MAGA hat urging him to “purchase Greenland” as a result of “we do not wish to be colonized by the Danish authorities anymore.”
Greenland is at the moment an autonomous territory of Denmark, which has claimed sovereignty over the island for tons of of years and commenced actively colonizing it in 1721.
Vikings from Iceland and Norway first settled in Greenland in 986, however their colonies finally collapsed, and a lot of the nation’s trendy residents are of Inuit or combined Inuit and European descent.
There’s a lengthy historical past of U.S. politicians in search of management over the island as a consequence of its strategic location, which affords entry to the Arctic and guards one flank of the watery “hole” that hyperlinks Russian naval bases to the Atlantic Ocean.
At current Greenland hosts the world’s most northern U.S. army base, which incorporates key early warning methods designed to identify missile and space-based assaults from overseas adversaries.
