Trump Jr expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday amid father’s interest in island
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Donald Trump’s son to make ‘private’ visit with no government meetings scheduled, island’s foreign secretary says. Donald Trump Jr is expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday as his father, president-elect Donald Trump, has again expressed interest in gaining control over the vast Arctic island.
The visit was a private one, the island’s permanent secretary for foreign affairs, Mininnguaq Kleist, told Reuters, with no meetings scheduled with representatives of the Greenlandic government. “We have not been briefed on the nature of his program, and therefore this is a private visit,” Kleist said, adding that Trump Jr was expected to land at around 1300 GMT and stay for about four to five hours.
A source familiar with the trip told Reuters that Trump Jr was planning a one-day visit to shoot video content for a podcast and that he would not meet with any government officials or political figures. Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark with a population of just 57,000, boasts mineral, oil and natural gas wealth. But development has been slow, leaving its economy reliant on fishing and annual subsidies from Denmark.
The capital, Nuuk, is closer to New York than the Danish capital, Copenhagen. “Greenland is open and those who wish to visit us are welcome,” Greenland’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement. Trump, who takes office on 20 January, said his son and various representatives were going to visit “some of the most magnificent areas and sights”.
