President-elect Trump said he will ‘make Greenland great again’

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Donald Trump Jr. arrived in the capital of Greenland Nuuk for a visit.

The visit on Tuesday comes shortly after his father, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, reiterated his interest in the resource-rich Arctic island.

Trump Jr. arrived at the “Trump Force” personal from his father around 1250 GMT, according to a live from Nuuk airport and flight tracking sites.

The layover in a cold, snow-covered nuuk was expected to last 4 to five hours, and no meetings with government officials were scheduled, a local official told Reuters.

“No, I don’t buy Greenland,” Trump Jr. said in a podcast Monday, referring to his father’s recent comments. “Very funny, I do a long non-public day trip in Greenland. “

Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, geographically constitutes the North American continent, and its capital Nuuk is New York City than Copenhagen is the Danish capital.

Map of Nuuk 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 a place, and other people will get many advantages if, and when, it will be a component of our nation,” he wrote.

Trump added that his son was visiting Greenland to see “some of the most magnificent areas and sights.”

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 discouraged foreign policy 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.

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has stated that the island is not for sale, but in his New Year speech stepped up a push for independence from Denmark.

Denmark’s PM Frederiksen, told broadcaster TV2 on Tuesday: “We need very close cooperation with the Americans.”

“On the other hand, I would like to encourage everyone to respect that the Greenlanders are a people, it is their country, and only Greenland can determine and define Greenland’s future,” she said. (

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Donald Trump Jr. has arrived in Nuuk

Donald Trump Jr. has arrived in Nuuk

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