Angry demonstrators in Greenland converged on a newly-built U.S. consulate on Thursday to protest the activities of President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the island, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.
According to The Hill, “Hundreds of Greenlanders took to the streets Thursday to protest the opening of the U.S. Consulate, chanting that the Americans must ‘go home.’ Protesters waved Greenlandic flags and held signs that read ‘USA Asu,’ or Stop USA,” The Guardian reported. Others shouted ‘Greenland belongs to Greenlanders’ outside the Greenlandic Parliament.”
Greenland is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Danish officials had their own frosty reception, per the report.
“Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and other politicians declined invitations to attend the consulate’s opening,” said the report. “‘We haven’t made a decision in principle, but I won’t participate,’ Nielsen told the Greenlandic daily Sermitsiaq, according to Reuters.”
Trump has for years fantasized about the United States annexing or purchasing Greenland, something neither Denmark nor Greenland has consented to. Greenland has a strategic military purpose for the United States, being a staging ground for some critical operations in the far north, but the United States already has access to the island for that purpose because Denmark is a NATO ally.
This comes after a stunt in which Landry attempted to pass out MAGA hats to Greenlandic kids — and got an extremely negative reaction.
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