(11 Mar 2025)
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Nuuk, Greenland – 7 March 2025
1. Jørgen Boassen, fan of the U.S. President Donald Trump, showing banners that he got in Washington
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jørgen Boassen, Greenland’s fan of the U.S. President Donald Trump:
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"We’re not to be the 51 state. But we can be the closest ally, just like Marshall Islands to with the U.S. with the Pacific agreement.
3. Various of Boassen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jørgen Boassen, Greenland’s fan of the U.S. President Donald Trump:
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"In defense area and mining section, we can be close, very close and best ally and best partners with everything I know, I think it will maybe we will have more 40% more money per person in Greenland if we going to work with the US. Now and this place, almost 70% people have not money enough to the end of the month. And if you go to Denmark, you can see the difference how the difference is, or the salary from Danish and Greenlandic people, or also in police department and in Justice department and the prison workers are different. We are second class people in our country, so we should become state and activate article 21.1 so we can negotiate with the process of to be independent from Denmark. And then after we can try to negotiate with U.S with many things."
5. Close of objects shaped of Trump
6. Trump bank note
7. Close of White House coin that Boassen received
8. Close of hats
9. Greenland’s flag
10. Houses
STORYLINE:
As Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight, Jørgen Boassen has become its most ardent supporter for U.S. President Donald Trump, who maneuvers to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory.
Trump’s interest in Greenland, restated vigorously soon after he returned to the White House in January, comes as part of an aggressively “America First” foreign policy platform that includes demands for Ukraine to hand over mineral rights in exchange for continued military aid, threats to take control of the Panama Canal, and suggestions that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.
Jørgen Boassen, who has visited the White House and welcomed Donald Trump Jr. when he recently visited Nuuk, said he does not wish to be the "51st state" but hope closer ties with America would bring more money to the Greenlandic people.
"We are second class people in our country," said Boassen, wearing an "American badass" T-shirt at home.
Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a long-time U.S. ally that has rejected Trump’s overtures. Denmark has also recognized Greenland’s right to independence at a time of its choosing.
The potential for independence raises questions about outside interference in Greenland that could threaten U.S. interests in the country.
Amid concerns about foreign interference and demands that Greenlanders must control their own destiny, the island’s prime minister called an early parliamentary election for Tuesday.
Boassen said he does not believe that Trump would use military force to gain the control. "Otherwise I could be completely wrong," said Boassen.
The world’s largest island, 80% of which lies above the Arctic Circle, is home to about 56,000 mostly Inuit people who until now have been largely ignored by the rest of the world.
AP Video by Kwiyeon Ha
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