Denmark, before Trump’s order with Greenland: “You can buy it if I will pay less taxes with that”

They are calm, like a good part of the citizens of Copenhagen. The turbulence caused by Hurricane Trump and his desire to annex Greenland to the United States claiming national security motifs, has not altered Danish trust too much, especially that of young people, who do not believe that this order will reach anywhere.

“I think she underestimate Denmark”says Oscar, a student at the KVUC, the institution where he performs the preparatory courses for the university. He is 20 years old and relaxes with his friends at the door of a supermarket during a break. None of them, who hurry a cigar before returning to class, has special interest in talking about the subject.

“He thinks it will be easy, that he can simply buy Greenland”he says after watching the video in which the tycoon, from the oval office, insists on his interest in buying the island.

Trump’s ability to launch numerous slogans, both new and recycled, makes young people as an Oscar, do not trust that he carry out their plans and believe that the Danish government will simply let the situation die. «It has totally opposite values ​​and ideas To those of the Danish population, I do not think it could be chosen here. Not closely, ”he says before saying goodbye to his group of friends, who stated his head as Oscar spoke.

Come by the success of Trump in Denmark. However, just three hundred meters from the KVUC, the classic ocher and tile colors that dress the facades of the city center contrast with a tone of intense red that safely crosses the Kultorvet Square. This is Daniel, a 41 -year -old Danish nurse who saw a dark coat and the famous “magician” cap, with his characteristic motto ‘Make America Great Again’ Written blank in front.

“I wear his cap because he puts the United States ahead of other things, I would love to have a Trump in Denmark,” says Daniel before the elusive look of some curious who noticed his cap. For him, Trump’s struggle against “the established order, the media and the Woke culture is important.” However, he differs with him in some affairs, such as Greenlands sovereignty.

“Greenland is not something you can occupy and take, I agree on other things with Trump but in this no, I think Greenland must decide on herself.”

“Nobody talks about that here,” Marcela says in a perfect Spanish, the person in charge of a bar from the Copenhage center. It is from Parla And with 20 years he came to try Luck to Denmark, in a few days he will fulfill his first anniversary in the city and at the moment he remains: «In Spain I could not carry the standard of living here. With a salary I pay a house of a room for me alone ». The portrait of a generation.

Marcela’s thesis is reinforced when Joshua, her co -worker, joins the conversation. He is twenty years old and with a resounding and friendly: “I don’t give a shit,” he makes clear his position on Greenland. “The war in Ukraine affects me more, in my school I have colleagues who have come from there,” he says. Another friend joins the conversation: «We never talk about it, it is something that worries older people. For me that bought Groenland if that means that I will pay less taxes, ”he says with a laugh.

Citizen passivity, government concern

The position of some Danes does not surprise James Kristofell Milesjournalist of the newspaper Ekstra Bladet. «I think that the Danish population tends to be carried away and relax, historically we are a nation of treaties and agreements. Donald Trump is a businessman, I think many people think that this will end with a negotiation, ”he says since the newspaper’s writing, in the middle of Rådhuspladsen, one of the main squares of the city where the City Council is also located.

To enter the editorial building, several controls and security doors must be passed, implemented after the Jyllands-Postten newspaper published in 2005 twelve satirical cartoons of Muhammad, an international crisis that resulted in threats and burning flags Danish in the Middle East.

“That was one of the biggest crises since the end of World War II, but I think this (Greenland) almost overcome it.”

Miles speak from experience. For twelve years he has covered the country’s political news, he remembers that it is not the first time that Greenland’s name goes up, his purchase is something that Trump already suggested in 2019. Already then, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksenhe referred to this idea as “absurd.” A few words that were qualified as “disgusting” by the tycoon and that caused the cancellation of his visit to Denmark.

«There is nervousness in the government, they are trying to find out how to respond to maintain their alliance with the United States and to be firm in their position on Greenland. It is something that nobody thought he would have to deal with. There is no plan ».

On the possibility that a Danish figure arising approaching what Trump has meant in the United States, James is sharp: “Donald Trump is extremely unpopular in Denmark”.

At the moment Danish secretism continues. At the entrance of the Foreign Ministry, composed of a cement buildings complex located on the Nyhavn channel, there is a small black plastic phone on a white table. The Ministry employee encourages it to lift it and call to talk to someone from the Foreign Minister. In doing so and explaining whether it is possible to talk to someone about the relationship with the United States, the conversation suddenly is cut.