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26 May 2026
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VIDEO GREENLANDERS PROTEST AGAINST TRUMP AS U.S. OPENS NEW CONSULATE & Trump’s envoy went to Greenland to make ‘friends.’ They were left unimpressed. 23MAI26
Protestors hold the Greenlandic flag as the demonstrate against the new American consulate in Nuuk on Thursday.Oscar Scott Carl / Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
MORE on the corrupt neo-nazi fascist drumpf / trump-vance administration's imperialistic attempts to take Greenland from Denmark. Their ass kissing sycophant, fascist jeffie landry is not qualified to represent America anywhere and it is a disgrace he was sent. It was also disgraceful and insulting to Greenlanders and Danes that a doctor was part of landry's delegation. The residents of Greenland and Denmark have access to one of the best universal healthcare systems in the world, there is no way they would switch their healthcare system, their education system, their housing system, basically their national social contract for America's inadequate social safety net and America's neglected national social contract, both underfunded so America's billionaires and millionaires get their tax breaks. Indigenous Greenlanders need to be aware of the history of America's theft from, cheating of, neglect of American indigenous peoples that continues to this day and generally is worse under gop / greed over people-republican party controlled governments. The drumpf / trump administration's interest in Greenland is not for the welfare of the indigenous people, it is based on the increasing the profit margins of the American military-industrial complex by taking all the rare earth minerals Greenland holds and then leaving you to clean up the mess. DO NOT believe the lies, deception and propaganda of the corrupt neo-nazi fascist drumpf / trump administration and DO NOT trust anyone from this administration. God bless and keep Greenland and Denmark!!! This from NBC News
Trump’s envoy went to Greenland to make ‘friends.’ They were left unimpressed.
President Donald Trump’s envoy to Greenland says he got a warm welcome on his first visit this week. But the mood on the Arctic island was decidedly frostier, with one of its most prominent lawmakers calling the visit “appalling” and “offensive.”
Pipaluk Lynge, who chairs Greenland’s foreign and security policy committee, slammed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s trip as “a clear attempt to divide us” during the sensitive negotiations on the future of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
She singled out his attempts to offer chocolate chip cookies to a group of Greenlandic children, seen by some as a surreal effort to win approval despite grown-up Greenlanders saying no to American advances.
“I think it’s remarkable that they feel welcome even though they weren’t invited,” Lynge said in an interview with NBC News.
Trump has caused outrage in Greenland and Europe by suggesting he could use force to seize the island, which has vast mineral resources and is strategically positioned in a region increasingly contested between the United States, Russia and China. Most officials and experts agree that were the U.S. to invade a fellow NATO member, it would spell the end of the troubled military alliance.
While Trump has rowed back these explicit militaristic threats, his designs on Greenland have not gone away. Arriving this week, Landry said his mission was to “make friends” but also that it was time for Washington “to put its footprint back” on the Arctic territory.
There was little evidence of any friendliness on the street, with the governor being heckled by people shouting “Don’t come here” and others giving him the finger.
Polls consistently show Greenlanders overwhelmingly reject American annexation, with pollster Sune Steffen Hansen finding in February that 76% were against and 8% for the idea.
“We don’t want to be Americans,” said Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, a lawmaker who represents Greenland in the Danish parliament and wants independence from Copenhagen. He described the “extraordinary” situation in which “an ally is coming to us with what is basically an ultimatum.”
Despite the anger and fear, the Greenlandic government has acknowledged a willingness to listen to U.S. security concerns. Negotiators from Greenland, Denmark and the U.S. are currently holding a high-level, closed-door “working group” trying to find a way forward. One reported suggestion on the table is increasing American military presence in Greenland, which since 1951 has hosted a U.S. base.
Landry’s office did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Speaking to journalists during his visit, he said that Trump had told him to “go over there and make as many friends as we can get.” He said he was there “simply to build relationships, to look, to listen and to learn,” and alleged that Greenland had been “ignored” by the U.S. until Trump took office.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in Sweden on Friday for a summit of NATO countries’ foreign ministers, told reporters Friday that Greenland had not been directly discussed, but said “there’s a growing commitment” to make Arctic security a regular focus of NATO engagements, “for obvious reasons.”
The White House said Landry was there “to further strengthen U.S.-Greenlandic ties and engage with local leaders,” assistant press secretary Olivia Wales said in an email. The U.S. is “optimistic that we are on a good trajectory to address U.S. national security interests in Greenland,” she said, saying Landry was doing “a great job” as governor and special envoy.
That could not be further from the opinion of many Greenlanders.
“We’ve seen how they treated the Native Americans, how they treated the Black people and the Mexicans over the last couple of years,” said Lynge, the lawmaker in Greenland’s parliament, which has power over most domestic policies while Denmark controls defense and security. “Most of us in Greenland tend to be Indigenous peoples, and we tend to stand with other Indigenous peoples.”
She called it “peculiar” that Landry had visited while this working group was still sitting. “It’s clear for me to see that he’s trying to affect us.”
Unlike America’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, Landry was not confirmed by the Senate but rather appointed by Trump himself.
“This is an f—ed up situation,” Høegh-Dam said. “This is not an accredited diplomatic envoy, but nonetheless this is someone who has close ties to the highest office in the United States.”
Landry was not invited to Greenland by its government. He held a “courtesy meeting” with Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who said it was held with “mutual respect and in a positive atmosphere.” But Nielsen remained resolute that his country was “not for sale,” he said afterward. The governor also attended a business conference, as well as the unveiling of a new U.S. Consulate in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, an event Thursday that attracted hundreds of demonstrators chanting “No means no.”
One thing that caused particular uproar during Landry’s visit was the accompaniment of a U.S. doctor to “assess the medical needs” of the island. This is a deeply sensitive issue. Greenlanders have been victims of decades of medical abuses under Danish rule, including women and girls as young as 12 being fitted with IUDs in the 1960s and ‘70s in an apparent attempt to reduce the population.
Greenland Health Minister Anna Wangenheim said it was “deeply problematic when people with a political mission to make Greenland part of the United States send a so-called volunteer doctor to Nuuk to ‘assess our needs.’”
Her statement decried “political envoys with hidden strategic interests” and pointed out that “Greenlanders are not experimental subjects in a geopolitical project.”
Something else criticized by Greenlandic officials was Landry’s interaction with a group of children while on a walkabout in Nuuk. He offered them unlimited chocolate chip cookies if they ever visited his governor’s mansion in Louisiana.
Nielsen said his compatriots would not be so easily wooed.
“We have our red lines,” Nielsen told Denmark’s public broadcaster DK. “And no matter how many chocolate cookies we get, we are not going to change them.”
For others, this was more sinister: an emissary from a hostile state trying to win over children after having been firmly rejected by their parents and politicians.
“I think it’s appalling and I think it’s offensive” that he “went on the streets and tried to affect children” like that, Lynge said.
There is another wrinkle in the question over who should control Greenland: While most Greenlanders balk at the idea of being taken over by America, some also want to be freed from Danish rule. Polls vary, with a survey last year finding that 56% favored independence, with another in February finding 62% wanted the island to stay part of Denmark.
“There is no such thing as a ‘better colonizer,” said Sara Olsvig, a former lawmaker in both the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments. She is now chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents 180,000 Inuit across Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.
“It’s important to remember that as a people and as a nation, we have already been through colonization once,” she said. “And we don’t want to go through it again.”
Trump’s Special Envoy to Greenland Receives a Cold Welcome From Locals & US envoy: Greenland ‘was not on a map’ until Trump ‘put it on a map’ 19&20MAI26
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
After President Trump’s threats to seize the island, Gov. Jeff Landry’s offers of MAGA hats and chocolate chip cookies fall flat.
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.
U.S.-Greenland Negotiations
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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