Trump Jr. plans surprise greenland visit after talk of US purchase

Sara Sjolin, Bloomberg News on Jan 6, 2025

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Donald Trump Jr. will travel to Greenland this week in a surprise visit to the Arctic territory, just weeks after his father, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, rekindled the idea of buying the island from Denmark.

A delegation arrived in the capital Nuuk on Monday, and Trump Jr. himself will land on Tuesday, the head of Greenland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Mininnguaq Kleist, told Bloomberg News.

The visit is “private” and Trump has scheduled no official meetings, Kleist said. Trump Jr. does not have an official role within his father’s incoming administration.

Trump Jr.’s surprise trip to Nuuk coincides with Greenland Premier Múte B. Egede postponing a planned meeting with Denmark’s King Frederik X on Wednesday in Copenhagen. Kleist said the timing of the canceled meeting with the king and Trump Jr.’s visit is “pure coincidence.”

Egede has long pushed for Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, to gain independence, and stepped up his rhetoric during his New Year speech. In the remarks, he expressed a need for Greenland to cooperate with neighboring states, saying “our cooperation with other countries, and our trade relations, cannot only continue to happen via Denmark.”

Relations between the U.S. and Nuuk were thrust into focus again last month when Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security. Egede said the island is “not for sale and will never be for sale.”

Elon Musk, a close adviser to Trump, on Monday also joined the conversation, saying in a post on X that “the people of Greenland should decide their future and I think they want to be part of America!”