NOT MY pres drumpf's / trump's continuing obsession with Greenland is not only embarrassing it is childish, greedy, disturbing and disgusting. Fascist ass kisser jeffie landry is a pathetic drumpf / trump sycophant lacking the ability to do anything meaningful requiring social, political and diplomatic skills except conning the people of Louisiana to elect him governor. The good people of Greenland continue to show they are politically and diplomatically smart and savvy and united in their opposition to the fascist drumpf / trump-vance administration's imperialism. From the New York Times and The Hill.....
UPDATE: The Trump Administration Is in a Psychotic State & Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate 10&13APR26
Trump’s Special Envoy to Greenland Receives a Cold Welcome From Locals
President Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, came to the island this week on a self-proclaimed good-will mission to “make a bunch of friends.”
So far, he has not found many.
Within hours of landing on Sunday in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, Mr. Landry was touring the town in a cold drizzle when one Greenlander gave his entourage the finger.
After he offered some MAGA hats to Greenlandic children, several shook their heads.
He even told some kids that if they came to his mansion in Louisiana, they could have “all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat.”
The next day, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, expressed his discomfort with the whole thing.
“We have our red lines,” he told DR, Denmark’s public broadcaster. “And no matter how many chocolate cookies we get, we are not going to change them.”
When asked about that later, Mr. Landry said, “There’s only one line and it’s red, white and blue.”
Mr. Landry’s high-profile visit — his first since being appointed in December as Mr. Trump’s point person on Greenland — comes at an exceedingly awkward time. Confidential negotiations over Greenland’s future have been unfolding in Washington, and officials have told The New York Times that Greenland’s leaders are wary of the direction in which the talks are headed.
The United States is insisting on a much bigger role in Greenland, perhaps not as drastic as seizing the island as Mr. Trump has threatened, but with major oversight over the country’s economic and security affairs.
The Trump administration wants effective veto power over any sizable investment deals to box out competitors like Russia and China, officials said. And the American officials are pushing to insert a forever clause into a decades-old military agreement so that if Greenland ever becomes independent, U.S. troops will remain on the island.
Mr. Trump has said he needs Greenland for national security reasons, and there is no doubt that the Arctic island is a huge piece of the North American security picture. It is more than 1,500 miles long and 600 miles wide, and sits high up in the Arctic Circle, a region that is increasingly contested by China, Russia, the United States and Europe.
But the way Mr. Trump has constantly threatened the island, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, and vowed to “get” it, “one way or the other,” has frightened, angered and alienated many Greenlanders.
Greenlandic officials are watching Mr. Landry’s trip closely and have taken issue with an American doctor accompanying the governor to assess the medical situation. The Danish territory’s health care system, which is publicly supported, is one of the top reasons Greenlanders cite for not wanting to join the United States. They fear losing their Scandinavian-style social net under an American system that to them stands for vast inequality and dysfunction.
“Greenlanders are not experimental subjects in a geopolitical project,” said Greenland’s health minister, Anna Wangenheim.
As Mr. Landry was sightseeing on Sunday, several onlookers scowled at him.
“They should fix their own country first,” said Hanne Hansen, a homemaker.
“They need to get out,” said her friend, Vivi Nielsen.
To Nuuk’s residents, the trip seemed tone-deaf. Mr. Landry’s delegation carried cardboard boxes stuffed with red MAGA hats but few residents wanted them. Greenlandic entrepreneurs have made their own version: red baseball caps that read, “Make America Go Away.”
Mr. Landry’s tour guide was Jørgen Boassen, a former bricklayer who has emerged as the No. 1 Trump fan on the island but is reviled by many locals.
“Traitor!” and “Shame on you!” residents yelled as he walked past with Mr. Landry.
Mr. Landry would not discuss the negotiations, and his visit was timed to catch a business conference that started on Tuesday in Nuuk.
“I’m going to try to make as many friends, see as many things, talk to folks, and see if there are additional opportunities where the U.S. could engage economically — and certainly create opportunities for Greenlanders as well,” he told reporters.
American investors, including allies of Mr. Trump, have been scouring the island for deals in water, minerals and energy. A former Green Beret who served as an adviser during Mr. Trump’s first term even floated a plan to build a gigantic data center on a remote fjord.
The Trump administration is clearly expanding operations in Greenland and reopening old military bases to bring in more troops for Arctic training exercises. This week, the United States will upgrade its consulate, moving from a little red house on the outskirts of Nuuk to one of the few office buildings in town.
Mr. Landry said he spoke to Mr. Trump over the weekend and that the president encouraged him to “make a bunch of friends.”
When asked by journalists what kind of friends, Mr. Landry replied: “All kinds of friends.”
But in an emotional speech at the business conference on Tuesday, a young Greenlandic woman expressed a different sentiment. “Trump wants to buy a country. Our country,” she said. “But what about us?
“Would he buy us too?”
Jeffrey Gettleman is an international correspondent based in London covering global events. He has worked for The Times for more than 20 years.
A version of this article appears in print on May 20, 2026, Section A, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump’s Special Envoy To Greenland Receives Cold Welcome by Locals.
US envoy: Greenland ‘was not on a map’ until Trump ‘put it on a map’
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) claimed that Greenland “was not on a map” until President Trump “put it on a map,” comments that follow rhetoric for months from the president to acquire the island.
“What I’ve found, that Greenland was not on a map, until Donald Trump put it on a map,” Landry, who is also Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, said in a clip posted to the social platform X on Tuesday.
“In other words, the United States, before Donald Trump, had basically ignored this place,” he added. “And I think it’s really to the detriment of both the relationship between the United States and Greenland, and opportunities that we could bring Greenlanders, I think that that’s important as well. And so, I would tell you, that the credit to bringing opportunity to Greenland is squarely on Donald Trump.”
Landry visited Greenland this week and told a Danish media outlet that he spoke on Saturday night to Trump, who told him to “go there and make a bunch of friends,” according to the Times-Picayune/NOLA.com.
The New York Times reported that when he was touring the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk, a local flipped off Landry and a group he was with.
“As I leave this great island, I am incredibly grateful for the warm welcome and eye-opening conversations. I regret that I only had time to visit the people of Nuuk, and look forward to experiencing everything else that Greenland has to offer on future trips,” Landry said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, Trump faced tensions with European allies over his quest to acquire Greenland. The Arctic island is a territory of Denmark, which is a member of the NATO alliance alongside the U.S.
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