Jorgen Boassen tells his communicative in 1 breath. He told it dozens of times to journalists from all over the planet and became a local star. Especially since Trump's boy Donald junior visited last January. This minute has made the island, which has been under the control of Denmark for over 200 years, the centre of the world's attention. “When I started showing my support for Trump on Facebook in 2016, I was ridiculed. I was the only 1 here. I was seen as a joker,” said Boassen with amusement, relying on the bench.
But his efforts yet paid off. A fewer days before the 2024 presidential election, Grenlandian was invited to Pennsylvania to walk from door to door and convince the last undecided voters. Boassen witnessed Donald Trump's triumph on November 6 at the Palm Beach region Convention Center, Florida.
Niels Ackermann / Lundi13 / Blick.chJorgen Boassen, Nuuk, Greenland
"Private" visit the full planet was talking about
In early January 2025 he was contacted by Charlie Kirk, an highly popular conservative influencer in the US. “He asked me to meet a tiny group of people who would meet Don Jr. at the airport and show him the city. Boassen did what he asked. 7 January Boeing 757 with Trump logo landed on an icy runway of Arctic metropolisWith Trump Junior on board. This is how a “private” visit began, which caused a large stir.
Neither Greenland nor the Danish government were informed of it. On the erstwhile day, Donald Trump stated on the community portal fact Social that "control over Greenland is an absolute necessity for national safety and freedom worldwide." Even if he had to consider annexing the country by force.
Trump's Desire Object
The island of 57,000 inhabitants, of which 90% of the population are Inuit, has for years been targeted by the fresh leader of the world's largest power. As early as 2019, Trump wanted to buy this semi-autonomic territory, which has been under the sovereignty of Denmark since 1814.
Greenland (‘green land’) is closer to fresh York City than Copenhagen and has been home to the U.S. military base in Pitufik in the northwest of the island since 1943. Global warming causes the ice sheet to melt. Greenland so becomes a strategical epicentre of fresh polar trade routes linking the Pacific to the Atlantic.
An island of 2.2 million sq mi, 80 percent of which is covered by ice, attracts everyone's attention besides due to the rich natural resources hidden underground. These include zinc, coal, gold, platinum, rubies, uranium, nickel, copper, and iron ore — as well as uncommon earth metals that are essential for technologies specified as electrical batteries and wind turbines. This so far unused treasure, the mining companies are drooling.
Parliamentary elections at advanced pressure
Donald Trump's expansionist ambitions towards the Arctic island have revived the independency aspirations of the Inuits who dream of independency from Denmark. A fewer days before Parliamentary elections held on Tuesday 11 MarchThe moods in Nuuk are very tense.
— Unlike the 2021 elections, erstwhile environmental protection was more crucial to the Greenland electorate even than independence, this time the question of possible dependence on the US will most likely be decisive,” explains Michael Paul of the German Institute of global Affairs and Security. Greenland seeks to separate itself from the Danish kingdom, but will not be prepared to quit independency for the fresh order of America First — especially if neither the right to self-determination nor the protection of the environment are sufficiently respected.
Niels Ackermann / Lundi13 / Blick.chNivi Rosing, Nuuk, Greenland
Price of independence
While independency is the mark of a vast majority of political parties, the timetable and means of achieving this goal vary according to the political group. independency besides has its price: Copenhagen pays Greenland 4.4 billion Danish crowns (about PLN 2.5 billion) each year.
Nivi Rosing, a left-wing green candidate for 1 of the 31 seats in Inatsisartut, Greenland's parliament, besides wants Greenland's independence. But in due time. “We must put the Inuit culture back in the spotlight. halt comparing yourself to Denmark and realize the tremendous impact of 300 years of colonial oppression on Inuit intellectual health, he says. A young female mentions a suicide rate in Greenland (about 80 per 100,000 inhabitants per year), which is 1 of the highest in the world. “ We inherit the traumas of the past, but I am curious in our future restoration,” he says and concludes: “We will shortly become independent.
