A member of Greenland’s parliament has slammed Donald Trump Jr.’s current personal go to to the autonomous Danish territory, which came about whereas his father, Donald Trump, heightened his rhetoric about the USA taking management of the island.
In an interview with Politico printed Thursday, Pipaluk Lynge claimed the optics of the Trump scion’s journey two days earlier — throughout which he was pictured with a number of residents carrying his dad’s pink “Make America Nice Once more” hat — had been “staged.”
Local media reported that the MAGA caps had been handed out simply earlier than the photographs had been taken.
“No journalists had been allowed to interview him,” Lynge, a member of the ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit celebration (which needs independence for Greenland) informed Politico. “It was all staged to make it look like we — the Greenlandic folks — had been MAGA and like to be part of the USA.”
“Individuals had been curious, however some took photos giving him [the] finger on the airport. … Some wrote on Fb: Yankee go dwelling,” she added, per Politico.
A consultant for Trump Jr. dismissed the “staged” claim to Politico.
The president-elect’s son himself wrote on Instagram: “So many individuals enthusiastic about our go to, particularly the youth. They love America and Trump.”
On Tuesday, Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede mentioned independence from Denmark was the island’s purpose, not being taken over by the USA.
In addition to speaking about seizing Greenland (and probably utilizing army drive to take action), the incoming POTUS has in current weeks additionally instructed the merger of Canada with the U.S. and taking management of the Panama Canal.
Trump additionally this week overrated the concept of renaming the Gulf of Mexico because the “Gulf of America,” a suggestion that drew some deadpan trolling from Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum.
