Sorry Donald Trump, no one’s buying it
Donald Trump’s obsession over Greenland has been known since his first term, but grown to new heights recently, likely due to the fact that America owning Greenland would give Russia a strategic advantage, given the degree to which Trump is a Putin loyalist.
The island, which is a semi-autonomous state that relies on economic aid and defense from Denmark, recently held elections. The Democrats (the name of their center-right party) prevailed with 30% of the vote, and decisively beating out the pro-US Naleraq Party which was eager to make concessions with Donald Trump in order to achieve independence.
Contrary to the videos that Trump’s campaign put out during the 2024 election, the issue of joining with the US is massively unpopular still in Greenland, with 85% of its residents not wanting to become part of the US.
Nearly half of them see Trump as a threat, something that his current handling of the economy isn’t exactly doing much to improve, and could probably give them the upper hand in future deals with the US when it comes to trading rare earth minerals and diplomacy. While Trump and Musk are desperately trying to present themselves to the world as strongmen, no one abroad seems to be buying it.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making