‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland
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People in Maga hats at lunch with Trump Jr last week did not know him and were invited in off the street, hotel boss says. A group of Greenlanders who attended a lunch hosted by Donald Trump Jr wearing Make America Great Again caps were not dedicated supporters of the US president-elect but homeless people enticed by the prospect of free food, it has been claimed.
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Trump Jnr visited the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, last week, shortly after his father declared it was an “absolute necessity” for the US to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory. During his visit, Trump Jr went to the Hotel Hans Egede for lunch with a group of people wearing Maga hats and put his father on speakerphone. The president-elect told them: “We’re going to treat you well.”.
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But Jørgen Bay-Kastrup, the hotel’s chief executive, said his many of guests were in fact not Trump supporters but people his team had met on the street who found out only later who Trump Jr was. Describing many of the group as homeless people, he said: “[Trump Jr] had just met them in the street and invited them for lunch, or his staff did. But I don’t think they knew who they were inviting.
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“That of course was a little bit strange to us because we saw guests that we have never seen in our hotel before – and will probably never see again because it’s out of their economical means.”. The group of about 15 ate a traditional Greenlandic lunch including fish and caribou. They were not, Bay-Kastrup added, Trump supporters. “They were just, ‘Hey, somebody invited us for lunch, let’s go and join him’. I think they found out later who it was.”.
