7 January 2025 landed a plane in Nuuk. On the side of it, in big letters, was TRUMP. And on the tail fin was the American flag.
Donald Trump Jr. stepped out of the plane. Son of the US President.
7 January 2025 landed a plane in Nuuk. On the side of it, in big letters, was TRUMP. And on the tail fin was the American flag.
Donald Trump Jr. stepped out of the plane. Son of the US President.
And with that visit, everyday life in Greenland was turned upside down.
It is now a year since Trump Jr. walked around the streets of Nuuk. Here you get an overview of what has happened between Greenland and Trump in the last year, and what the latest new developments are.
January 2025
· January 7, 2025. Trump Jr. comes on visit to Nuuk as a tourist. He hands out caps with Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” to people on the street.
· 07 January. President Donald Trump holds a press conference in Florida, where he does not refuse to use military or economic coercion in relation to gaining control over Greenland.
· January 10. The then chairman of Naalakkersuisut Múte B. Egede (IA) says at a press conference in Copenhagen that “We don’t want to be Danes. We don’t want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders.”
March 2025
· March 10, 2025. The day before the Inatsisartut election, Trump writes on his social media Truth Social, that the USA is ready to invest billions of dollars in Greenland and make the Greenlanders rich.
· 15 March 2025. Hundreds of Greenlanders took to the streets in Nuuk, Sisimiut and Qaanaaq for to demonstrate against Donald Trump’s statements about annexing and taking control of Greenland.
· March 25, 2025. US Vice President JD Vance and wife Usha Vance announce, that they will visit Pituffik Space Base. Usha Vance should have visited Nuuk and Sisimiut and attended Avannaata Qimussersua. It is canceled following criticism that the American visit will come before the new Naalakkersuisut is in place, and several reports of demonstrations.
· March 28, 2025. On the same day that the new Naalakkersusiut led by Jens-Frederik Nielsen (D) is presented in Nuuk, JD Vance a press conference at Pituffik Space Base, where he says that Denmark has not invested enough in Greenland over the years.
April 2025
· April 29, 2025. In the middle of the crisis with the USA, King Frederik visits Nuukwhere, among other things, he goes on a sailing trip on the fjord with Jens-Frederik Nielsen and holds a public coffee meeting in Katuaq.
June 2025
· June 15, 2025. French President Emmanuel Macron visits Greenlandwhere he holds a press conference together with Jens-Frederik Nilsen and Mette Frederiksen in Nuuk. Here he says that “Everyone in France and the European Union believes that Greenland cannot be taken.”
August 2025
· August 18, 2025. German Deputy Defense Minister Nils Schmid visits Nuuk. He meets with the Danish Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt (S).
· August 28, 2025. The armed forces are extra busy with activities in Greenland in Augustincluding several exercises with NATO allies.
December 2025
· December 8, 2025. Meetings are held in the Joint Committee and Permanent Committee between Greenland, Denmark and the USA in Nuuk. US Ambassador Ken Howery says at a press conferencethat the USA respects the right of the Greenlandic people to determine their own future.
· December 22, 2025. Trump appoints the governor of the state of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as the United States’ special envoy to Greenland.
January 2026
· 05 January 2026. Jens-Frederik Nielsen holds a press conferencewhere he says that we should not be worried. He says that Naalakkersuisut continues to seek dialogue with the US through ‘proper channels’.
· 05 January 2025. A number of European leaders and the EU support Greenland and Denmark.
· 06 January. An extraordinary meeting of the Danish Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee is heldwith one point: the Kingdom’s relationship with the United States.
· 07 January 2026. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announces that he will meet with Denmark to talk about Greenland. Vivian Motzfeldt confirms to Sermitsiaq that she will attend the meeting.
