An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

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https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/npr-news/2026-06-17/an-inside-look-at-president-trumps-campaign-to-acquire-greenland

An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland

NPR | By Dave Davies
Published June 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM CDT
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So they arrived in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and were greeted by a solitary Trump supporter, a Greenlander named Jorgen Boassen, who led them down to the harbor and over to Nuuk's most expensive hotel, where they hosted a number of locals for a very expensive lunch. And it was only after they left that local journalists in Nuuk working for the Greenlandic publications found that, in fact, among those supporters were a number of homeless people who had been recruited with the promise of a free meal. And the portrayal in sort of both Charlie Kirk's words and those of Don Jr. was that actually, this was evidence of a profound support building for an America takeover, effectively - framed as these people would like to join the United States.

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland

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