Greenland: That’s what’s behind the alleged Trump fans

Many Greenlanders saw the visit as an affront: Last Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr., the son of the future US President Donald Trump, arrived in Greenland’s capital Nuuk for a visit. Shortly before, his father had brought up a possible annexation of the resource-rich autonomous Danish territory to the USA. These considerations met with little sympathy among Greenlanders. The mood was correspondingly heated when the Boeing 757 bearing the name “Trump” landed at the capital’s airport.

But Trump Jr. got positive pictures: He met what appeared to be real Trump fans in a restaurant. They even wore caps with the Trump campaign’s slogan: “Make America great again” (“MAGA”). The images suggested: Greenlanders are nowhere near as united in their rejection of Trump’s fantasies of unification as the harsh reaction from politicians suggests.

The trip was planned as a charm offensive: Father Donald used his son’s telephone to tell those present in Nuuk that he would treat the Greenlanders well once he had freed them from the Danes’ yoke.

But the action has one flaw: According to a report in the “Bild” newspaper, the entire scene was staged. Citing eyewitnesses, the paper writes that Trump Jr. In the absence of real fans, I recruited homeless and poor people from the streets and were lured with the prospect of a free meal.

This is how the group of people ended up in the elegant steak restaurant on the 5th floor of the Hotel Hans Egede. In order to fill their stomachs there, the 30 or so freshly cast extras simply had to put the “MAGA” baseball caps on their heads and feign interest in the plans of the US President-elect. The PR stunt was ready.

“I’m only going there as a tourist,” Donald Trump Jr. said. promised in a posting on the online platform Rumble before his departure. This is how you can see it: Tourists are often only interested in good pictures.