Trump Jr.’s visit occurred weeks after Trump re-ignited the calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland
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Donald Trump Jr. was promised a large crowd of Greenlanders when he landed at the Nuuk airport Tuesday. Instead, he got, at best, a handful of fans for his unofficial visit.
While aboard “Trump Force One” to visit Greenland, Sergio Gor, a Trump ally and the incoming director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, told Trump Jr. a significant number of people would show up.
“The whole town is showing up, I think, at the airport,” Gor said in a teaser clip of Art of the Surge, an Apple TV docuseries on Donald Trump’s resurgence and presidential victory.
A few hours later, when he arrived in Greenland, it appeared that some citizens showed up to greet Trump Jr. and his team.
A clip of the organization that arrived showed a small collection of other people outside the Nuuk airport, waving Trump Jr. , a video, taken on a neighboring road, showed that some citizens who left their cars to take photos of “Trump Force Force One “landing.
A video taken inside the airport showed 20 or so Greenlanders waiting at the terminal for the U.S. president’s eldest son. By the time Trump Jr. and his team departed from the terminal, it appeared more locals had joined the welcome crowd, but it had remained relatively reserved.
Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is a city of fewer than 20,000, according to the United Nations.
Trump Jr. happened weeks after Trump has revived the calls to the United States to win Greenland, an autonomous territory in Denmark. On Tuesday, the president -elect said that he did not exclude the use of the US army to take the country.
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede and Danish prime minister put Frederiksen in several events that the island “not for sale. “
“Greenland is ours. We are not on sale and we will never be to sell. We will not have to lose our long struggle for freedom, ”said Egede in December.
Trump Jr.’s short trip was considered a personal visit, not official business. Greenland representatives said they would not meet with him. The president-elect’s son said the purpose of the trip was to “talk to people and see what they think about America.”
Local media noted that there were “several” supporters who showed up dressed in MAGA products, but the maximum were “curious citizens” who sought to attend at the desirable time.
A source familiar with the trip told The Hill that Trump Jr.’s visit was “to shoot some fun video content for podcasting.”
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