A group of Greenlanders who attended a luncheon hosted by Donald Trump Jr. wearing “Make America Great Again” caps were seduced by the prospect of free food, not ardent supporters of the U.S. president-elect. It is alleged that they were homeless people.
Trump Jr. visited Greenland’s capital Nuuk last week, shortly after his father declared it was “absolutely necessary” for the United States to govern Denmark’s semi-autonomous territory.
During the visit, Trump Jr. had lunch at the Hotel Hans Egede with people wearing MAGA hats and put his father on speakerphone. The president-elect told them, “We’re going to take good care of you.”
But the hotel’s chief executive, Jorgen Bey-Kastrup, said many of the guests were not actually Trump supporters, but people his team met on the street and only later became Trump supporters. He said he now knew who Junior was.
Many in the group were homeless, she said, adding, “[Trump Jr.]either met them on the street and invited them to lunch, or his staff had just invited them. But they didn’t know who they were inviting. I think so.
“Of course, it was a little strange for us because we saw a guest that we had never seen in our hotel before, and we probably would never see again because we can’t afford it.”
The group of about 15 people ate a traditional Greenlandic lunch that included fish and caribou. Bay-Kastrup added that they were not Trump supporters. “They just said, ‘Hey, someone invited us to lunch, let’s go.’ I think we found out who it was afterward.”
A spokesperson for Trump Jr. denied the allegations, calling them “outrageous nonsense.”
Trump Jr.’s visit came as his father did not rule out using military or economic action to capture the world’s largest island.
House Republicans released a draft bill called the “Make Greenland Great Again Act” that would allow the Trump administration, which takes office on Monday, to hold talks to buy Greenland.
Greenland and Denmark have repeatedly said the territory, whose foreign and security policy is controlled by NATO member Denmark, is not for sale. But Greenland’s prime minister said his government was interested in deepening cooperation with the United States and that “the door is open when it comes to mining.”
Asked about President Trump’s interest in Greenland, Bay-Kastrup, who is Danish, said: “We are not for trade, we are not for sale. We want to cooperate, but we are not for sale. there is no.”
Since Trump Jr.’s visit, people wearing MAGA hats and American flags have reportedly been handing out $100 bills and filming themselves outside the supermarket across the street.
The man, Jacob Nordstrom, said his 11-year-old son came home with a $100 bill, Greenlandic newspaper Samiziak reported. “I’m really shocked to learn that my 11-year-old son received money from an adult he didn’t know,” he told Samiziak, who described the people who gave away the money as Canadian-American influencers. Ta.
Bay-Kastrup, who witnessed the scene from his office, said most people would think the stunt was funny, but he did see someone pick up a Maga cap and stomp on it. he said.
In response to the Guardian’s request for comment about Trump Jr.’s lunch guests, Arthur Schwartz, a political operative and friend of the president-elect’s son, said: Do you realize that this suggestion sounds so ridiculous that you have to feel stupid to even ask it? ”
He added: “The cameras were following him from the moment he got there to the moment he left. They saw him soliciting homeless people…his homeless people…for lunch. Were you lonely?”
