Before Trump, Greenland was ignored. Now 'we’re not ignoring them anymore,' Jeff Landry told Euractiv
NUUK, Greenland – Donald Trump’s envoy might be handing out Make America Great Again hats on the street and giving chocolate chip cookies to children but he is not yet winning over Greenlanders.
Jeff Landry’s visit comes with warm promises of friendship, but many in Greenland see him as a symbol of an intrusive, colonial-style American approach bound up with President Trump’s repeated demands to control the territory.
Speaking to Euractiv in downtown Nuuk, Landry, who is also the governor of Louisiana, insisted that the trip so far was “a great success” and that everyone he met responded “very positively”, before stressing that Greenlandic people “wish to be closer to America.”
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