Wearing an "American badass" T-shirt emblazoned with Donald Trump's picture, Jorgen Boassen walks to a painting at Nuuk's Cultural Centre showing the US President in Inuit costume looking at minerals by a fjord. An avid Trump fan, the Greenlander also took part in a highly publicised visit by Trump's son Donald Jr in January, but he says he is against a US takeover of Greenland.
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00:00This is Daddy, Papa.
00:17He wanted us to be independent from Denmark and let us become a state and make it the
00:24best ally to the U.S.
00:25And that's also my view, that's my policy.
00:29We will not become American citizens, we will not become a 51-state, but Trump says many
00:34things to get his will, to try to figure out, how can I get that, you know, out of the deal,
00:41he says many things, many big words, and in the reality, maybe he wants to have this one.
00:46My political support to Trump has been that, since I was in the U.S., some Danish companies
01:04will not use me anymore, and some other Greenlandic people, because I'm supporting Trump and it
01:12has kind of blacklisted, but also many people support me.
01:20I'm not against the Danish people and Denmark, but Denmark has changed, they want to have
01:25a war all the time, and the defense system and everything is in bad condition, they have
01:35nothing, they have no soldiers to that, so the Danish have been very arrogant all that
01:41last year.
01:42It's more relevant to have a debate about independence and more...
01:46But, you know, people don't... the only thing about is U.S. and...