Donald Trump Jr. lands private plane in Greenland amid takeover bid
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President-elect Trump said he will ‘make Greenland great again’. Donald Trump Jr. has arrived in Greenland’s capital Nuuk for a private visit.,. The visit on Tuesday comes shortly after his father, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, reiterated his interest in the resource-rich Arctic island.
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Trump Jr. arrived in his father’s “Trump Force One” private plane at about 1250 GMT, according to a livestream from Nuuk airport and flight tracking websites. The visit to a freezing, snow-covered Nuuk was expected to last four to five hours, and no meetings were scheduled with government officials, a local official told Reuters.
“No, I am not buying Greenland,” Trump Jr. said in a podcast on Monday, alluding to his father’s recent comments. “Funny enough, I’m actually going on a very long personal day trip to Greenland.”. Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, is geographically part of the North American continent, and its capital Nuuk is closer to New York than to the Danish capital Copenhagen.
Map of Nuuk in Greenland:. On Monday, President-elect Trump praised the island on his social media platform Truth Social, promising to “MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”,. “Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation,” he wrote.
