Greenland Official Reveals Finger-Flipping Welcome For Donald Trump Jr.
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Pipaluk Lynge said the reception of Donald Trump's son in the autonomous Danish territory wasn't as bright and happy as he has claimed.
A member of Greenland’s parliament has slammed Donald Trump Jr.’s recent private visit to the autonomous Danish territory, which took place while his father Donald Trump heightened his rhetoric about the United States taking control of the island.
In an interview with Politico published Thursday, Pipaluk Lynge claimed the optics of the Trump scion’s trip two days earlier — during which he was pictured with multiple residents wearing his dad’s red “Make America Great Again” hat — were “staged.”
Local media reported that the MAGA caps were handed out just before the photos were taken.
“No journalists were allowed to interview him,” Lynge, a member of the ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit party (which wants independence for Greenland) told Politico. “It was all staged to make it seem like we—the Greenlandic people—were MAGA and love to be a part of the USA.”
“People were curious, but some took pictures giving him [the] finger at the airport… Some wrote on Facebook: yankee go home,” she added.