Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland. Then things got weird.
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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For half an hour the free beer flowed at Daddy’s, a low-ceilinged pub located on a back street of this remote ice-encrusted capital, while “Y.M.C.A." blasted out of the sound system. Donald Trump Jr.
mingled with a small group of hastily gathered MAGA-hat-wearing Greenlanders to extol the virtues of being part of America. Some locals did the Donald Trump dance while being filmed. And then the president-elect’s son left.
“It was very weird," says Malik Dollerup-Scheibel, a 20-year-old Greenlandic student who attended the event last week. Life in Nuuk hasn’t been the same since Donald Trump offered to buy the place. The low-key capital, 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle, where highlights include the annual snow-sculpting festival and eerie Northern Lights that streak the night sky, has for days been besieged by journalists from Russia to Brazil all asking the same question: Does Greenland want to be part of America? On a recent day, a news ticker in the center of town beamed on a loop the answer from the Greenlandic prime minister to Donald Trump: The autonomous Danish territory isn’t for sale.
It is a view that most locals echo. But the Trump family’s opening gambit has lighted a fire under something else here, with residents suddenly enthused about new possibilities, be it independence from Greenland’s historical colonial master, Denmark, or an influx of investment from America. “I think people are a bit frightened but also excited that something could happen, that new industries could come," says Ivik Paulsen, a lawyer in Nuuk.
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