How an Arctic brickie could be the key to Trump taking over Greenland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Until this month, Boassen, 50, was unknown outside Nuuk, the island's tiny, snowbound capital, where he lives in a freight container-like cabin filled with photos of Trump and memorabilia collected on trips to the US, the country he has loved since watching Hollywood movies as a boy.
58% : Fiercely protective of their pristine natural wonders, they are alarmed, too, by Trump's love affair with fossil fuels - restated again on Monday with his 'drill, baby, drill' mantra.
56% : The Reform leader congratulated Greenland for being the first territory to exit the European Union in 1985 (a move prompted by EU fishing quotas).
52% : Given the strategic importance of the world's biggest island, and the wealth of rare earth minerals lying beneath the huge ice sheet that covers 80 per cent of its landmass, Trump is hell-bent on grabbing Greenland before China or Russia.
51% : Using social media, Boassen has banged the drum for closer ties with the US rather than Denmark since 2020, when Trump first voiced his ambitions for Greenland.
50% : A few days later, however, I watched a group of American pro-Trump influencers, who had seemingly flown to Greenland of their own volition, take to the streets to hand out $100 bills to youthful passers-by.To get their reward, all they had to do was wear one of those red MAGA hats, gaze into a camera, and parrot a scripted 'message' to Trump: 'Buy Greenland!
41% : Arctic expert Tom Dans (now Visiting Fellow at the Right-leaning think tank, the Margaret Thatcher Center For Freedom in Washington) believes Boassen - exactly the sort of charismatic outsider Trump admires - might be the man to start it.
39% : 'The Danes have not been good owners of Greenland, and you should know I am not negative about Donald Trump at all,' he tells me, saying Jorgen Boassen would be a welcome recruit to his party.
35% : Trump, who loathes state handouts, would be unlikely to be so generous.
27% : So, as Trump sets about his audacious Greenland gambit - even refusing to rule out force to take the vast territory - why has this obscure Iceman come to prominence?
25% : Yet one suspects Trump has some hope of thawing Greenlandic froideur, for many people here are so angry at the way the Danes have treated them that they long to cut the umbilical cord with Copenhagen and might yet decide that skiing in Trump's slipstream is the lesser of two evils.
24% : We don't need Trump to buy and sell our fish.'Waiting to attend a lecture, Mingus Lyberth, a 17-year-old sociology student was similarly dismissive, saying Trump was 'just a businessman, not a good person, and didn't care for Greenland's interests'.
23% : 'The Left-wing Danish media are trying to portray Trump as the big, bad wolf at our door, but that is not right.

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