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Eugene

(63,030 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:37 AM Jan 12

Greenland Official Reveals Finger-Flipping Welcome For Donald Trump Jr.

Greenland Official Reveals Finger-Flipping Welcome For Donald Trump Jr. (HuffPost)

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.”


https://news.yahoo.com/news/greenland-official-reveals-finger-flipping-091736147.html

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Donald Trump Jr.’s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker (Politico)

“People were curious, but some took pictures giving him [the] finger at the airport. … Some wrote on Facebook: Yankee go home,” she added, per Politico.


https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-junior-visit-was-staged-says-greenland-lawmaker/
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Greenland Official Reveals Finger-Flipping Welcome For Donald Trump Jr. (Original Post) Eugene Jan 12 OP
Every single thing the Trump family does is staged, fake, a total lie. Irish_Dem Jan 12 #1
Right on Greenland!!!!! Stargazer99 Jan 12 #2
Oh, good. My wish came true. tanyev Jan 12 #3
I side with Greenland. twodogsbarking Jan 12 #4
I know little about Greenland other than 3/4 of it is covered with ice and we doc03 Jan 12 #5
Greenlanders are full citizens of Denmark. niyad Jan 12 #7
I don't think they would want to join the USA then. nt doc03 Jan 12 #8
Probably not. niyad Jan 12 #9
NAZI Playbook Kid Berwyn Jan 12 #6

Irish_Dem

(62,819 posts)
1. Every single thing the Trump family does is staged, fake, a total lie.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:40 AM
Jan 12

They are not capable of doing the right thing.

doc03

(37,297 posts)
5. I know little about Greenland other than 3/4 of it is covered with ice and we
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:15 AM
Jan 12

have an Air Force base there. I wonder if the people of Greenland have the same healthcare
and other programs as the people in Denmark or does Denmark treat its territory like the USA does
ours?

Kid Berwyn

(18,980 posts)
6. NAZI Playbook
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:42 AM
Jan 12
The Gleiwitz Case reconstructs in detail the 1939 surprise attack by a Nazi unit on the radio station in Gleiwitz, a German town on the Polish border. This attack was blamed on Polish forces, thus served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland and starting WWII. It shows how facts and opinions can be manipulated and how people are made to accept lies, murder and war.

Source: https://www.umass.edu/defa/film/3548
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