"Colorful houses line the snowy coast of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland. The city has a population of around 20,000"
Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk
Hotel Aurora Nuuk
Posted on 01/10/2026 12:46:53 PM PST by DFG
Longtime Greenlanders have told the Daily Mail they are furious with President Donald Trump for once again floating the possibility of taking over their country.
Trump revived talk about the United States asserting formal control over Greenland on Sunday, one day after US soldiers captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and brought the deposed leader back to New York to face a litany of criminal charges.
'It's so strategic,' Trump told reporters on Air Force One. 'We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.
Jørgen Bay-Kastrup is the CEO of Hotel Hans Egede, a four-star hotel in Nuuk, Greenland's capital and largest city of around 20,000 residents.
Bay-Kastrup, who has lived in Greenland for the last 11 years, said Trump's treatment of the people of Greenland has been 'disgraceful' and 'disgusting.'
'He's talking about us as if we are just some kind of tool,' said Bay-Kastrup, who is originally from Denmark. 'This is disrespectful toward our country and toward our citizens.'
Klaus Iverson, another Danish transplant to Greenland, told the Daily Mail that Trump's repeated demands to seize the country are 'offensive' and 'bizarre.'
'It is also a bit scary,' Iverson said. 'We have seen what President Trump - I wouldn't call him President Trump, just Trump - [is] capable of.'
Iverson, a veteran of the Danish military, is in the hospitality business as well. He and his wife run the 32-room Hotel Aurora Nuuk.
'I have been in Bosnia together with American troops. I have colleagues who died in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting alongside the US troops. So I find it extremely bizarre that Trump approaches Greenland in this manner,' said Iverson, who has lived in Greenland for the past 17 years.
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"Colorful houses line the snowy coast of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland. The city has a population of around 20,000"
Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk
Hotel Aurora Nuuk
Will Muslims move there en mass?
The Daily Mail is TDS trash.
The money the Greenlanders would have a neutral impact on their economic standing.
It’s President Trump, Klaus.
"The capital of Iceland, is Reykjavík. Do you want to do, an awkward pause, blow on a harmonica, or win the big cash prize?"
“The Daily Mail is TDS trash.”
Agreed. They need to report on the big decline in their own country.
What do they feel they would lose by joining America less isolation?.
Could be DM bs going on in this article. I hear natives loving the idea especially the young. I hear eff Trump from others. Most of the eff Trumpers dont look Inuit. They look like Danes.
“The Daily Mail is TDS trash.”
Yes. I highly doubt that Greenlanders would be fuming over getting 500;000 a piece, military protection and a better quality of life from US investment.
China and Russia won’t do that.
They’ll just go in there and take over and Denmark couldn’t do a damn thing about it.
It’s hard for me to believe that the average Greenlander has a very great attachment to Denmark.
I suspect a deal can be made.
Longtime Greenlanders? All of them or just the ones that the Mail wanted to find?
I’d like to see a credible poll of the citizens.
Stories like this seem so contrived.
I sure wish someone would make me a six-figure offer!
What keeps Chy-nah from invading?
Greenland used to be “owned” by what constitutes Norway today.
What constitutes Denmark today stole it from Norway back in the day.
Let the peeps of Greenland decide who is going to protect them and promote their economy, so as to encourage their progeny to choose to stay there. [It’s apparently not happening now...]
Say the “subjects” of the King of Denmark . . .
If they think being under the protection of the US is slavery, they should look at the countries and workers where Chinese development has moved in to extract natural resources or position Chinese military expansion
There is no such thing as a credible poll, in my opinion. To me they are all scams. Maybe that's due to the decades they have spent attempting to manipulate elections and public opinion here in the US.
Right. They’ll fight us tooth and claw tomorrow but if Muslim “refugees” just happened to wash up around Nuuk month after month, year after year…
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