Greenlanders are something people laugh at on American TV – here’s what Trump voters are served [Danish Article]

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2025-03-26-groenlaendere-er-noget-man-griner-af-paa-amerikansk-tv-her-er-hvad-trumps-vaelgere-faar-serveret

by darkside1977

32 comments

  1. My hate and disgust is growing daily coming to Americans. Thank you for that

  3. Did something happen to Americans to cause them to develop such contempt for Europe or is this something that they’ve always felt but kept hidden out of political correctness or political expediency?

  4. Translation:

    **Greenlanders are something you laugh at on American TV – here is what Trump’s voters get served
    Greenland is now something we talk about on conservative American TV channels. It happens with lots of alternative facts.**

    What does Donald Trump’s core voters really know about Greenland when they turn on the television?

    > Denmark has admitted that they cannot defend Greenland- Carla Sands, former US ambassador to Denmark

    Lately, we’ve heard a lot about what the president himself thinks, and at the same time, Greenland has also become a topic that viewers of conservative channels like Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network are being served stories about.

    The number of interviews about Greenland was increased after US Vice President JD Vance and his wife decided to go on an unofficial visit to the island, which has created a diplomatic crisis between the US and the rulers of Nuuk and Copenhagen.

    Here on TV 2 we have looked at how the conservative American broadcasters cover the conflict and how the Greenlandic people whom Donald Trump would like to submit to are mentioned.

    **Stone Age people**

    Tuesday had the TV channel Newsmax for example, a visit by the former US ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands.

    > They lived under Stone Age-like conditions- Carla Sands, former US ambassador to Denmark

    She told viewers that Denmark sees Donald Trump’s desire to take over Greenland as “common sense”.

    > I believe that Denmark has admitted that they cannot defend Greenland. They can’t secure it. Internally, they even make fun of not being able to defend their own small country, Denmark. I think they see it as common sense, Carla Sands said, adding that she is unsure how the government in Denmark will respond to Donald Trump’s specific offer that the world has not yet seen.

    According to Carla Sands, Denmark cannot afford to “develop” Greenland, and she said that, in her opinion, things went much better with Greenland, as the United States was present without Danish interference during World War II.

    > We actually occupied Greenland during World War II. We had about 5000 soldiers there, which is when Greenland’s population was 20,000. All the development in Greenland was due to our occupation for decades. We made them live in more modern conditions rather than living under Stone Age-like conditions because of Denmark’s oppression of the people, Carla Sands said.

    **Alternative facts**

    The envoy’s host Rob Finnerty seized the reference to the occupation of Greenland during World War II and compared the situation today with the war against Nazity country:

    > During World War II, it was a necessary strategic move because German submarines attacked thousands of Allied ships from the United States as they tried to get to Europe. So we had to do it. Here we are now 80 years later and we may have to do it again.

    *The TV channel Newsmax has interviewed Carla Sands, ambassador to Denmark during Trump’s first presidential term. She says the Danes may well see the reason for Trump’s desire to annex Greenland.
    Rob Finnerty also suggested that Denmark should deliver Greenland because the Danes do not fulfill their obligations to NATO.*

    > Denmark is a NATO country, but a small one. They haven’t contributed 2 percent of their GDP in defense yet, that’s something Donald Trump has been talking about for the past eight years. Could this be a way to contribute? Donating Greenland for Freedom? asked Rob Finnerty.

    “I’m not sure they look at it that way,” said Carla Sands, but during the interview she made it clear that she believes that among the Greenlandic people there is “interest and appetite” for the US to govern Greenland .

    She did not mention the big demonstrations against the US in Nuuk and elsewhere in Greenland, and before we change the TV channel, we probably also have to point out that Denmark actually lived up to NATO’s 2 percent target in 2024, that no one in the Danish government has publicly called Trump’s plans for “common sense” and that many Greenlanders probably disagree, that their captive culture in the mid-20th century can be described as “stone age-like conditions”.

    **A wink with the eye**

    However, the interview with Carla Sands is not the only thing where alternative descriptions of the Greenlandic people are used in American television.

    > When they freeze their ass in a tuktuk, or whatever it is called in Greenland, we show them what it looks like in Miami in December, and then they’re on board- Andrew Schulz, guest in talk show on Fox News

    On March 17, the topic “Greenland” was taken up in the talk show ‘The Will Cain Show’ on Fox News.

    Here, host Will Cain had invited comedian Andrew Schulz to talk about current events.

    “The idea of taking land has really been fun again,” said Andrew Schulz.

    > Really funny, Will Cain said, adding:
    >
    > Who doesn’t want Greenland?
    >

    Student host Will Cain laughs after saying “who doesn’t want Greenland?”. Photo: Fox News
    Then he tried to be funny.

    “No, we shouldn’t go ashore,” he said, and then he turned his face to the camera and blinked emphatically with one eye – probably as a signal that you can say a lot under the pretext of not being serious .

    *On Fox News, comedian Andrew Schultz is happy about the Greenlanders, saying he is a supporter of conquering land.*

    **’Hearts and memories’**

    Immediately after, the comedian made it clear that he thinks Greenland should be part of the United States.

    > What an upgrade. Do we know what the Greenlanders think? asked Andrew Schulz afterwards.

    “There are 50,000 of them,” said study host Will Cain, shaking his head.

    Then he suggested converting the Greenlanders with political advertising.

    > Even if they don’t like it, even if they don’t want it, it’s just a big Super Pac advertising flash, and everything is fine, Will Cain said.

    > I think it would convince them. Hearts and memories. We’ll show them Miami in December. When they freeze their ass in a tuktuk, or whatever it is called in Greenland, we show them what it looks like in Miami in December, then they’re on board, Andrew Schulz said.

    *On American Fox News, studio host Will Cain and comedian Andrew Schultz laugh at a possible conquest of Greenland.*

    > What do they have over there, are they minerals? continued Andrew Schulz.

    > That’s what you say. They have plenty of land, but most of it is covered with ice, Will Cain replied, stressing that he likes the idea that the United States should have more land.

    > I like to conquer, replied Andrew Schulz and started laughing.

    “They’re only 50,000,” Will Cain said with a broad laugh.

  5. who wants to bet that very soon the EU will be called the NU (Nazi Union) by the MAGAts?

  6. Americans might be worse than russians bc the americans actually wanted a crazy rapist moron to run their country

  7. The way the anchor says « there is only 50’000 of them » and then laughs in an evil way, sends chills down my spine. Sounds so much like a war crime preparation

  8. Any historian could tell you that the US administration is preparing for an illegitimate invasion.

    This is standard procedure. Discredit, humiliate, dehumanize your “enemy”. The domestic population needs to see them as something lesser than themselves, so they won’t bat an eye when you tell them to commit war crimes against them.

  9. I’d go to war for you,greenlanders.

    Love from Sweden.

  10. I used to have to watch this kind of stuff on Russian TV with subtitles. At least I can listen to it in English now.

  11. So dehumanisation before invasion, huh?

    Straight out of the Russian playbook.

  13. I hate how they are talking about the loss of human live like it is some joke. This shit makes me sick to my stomach. Let people fucking live their lives in peace.

  14. I’m waiting for Russian and American TV personalities to make a show together about the glory of expansionism .

  15. A few months ago I visited a museum exhibition about Greenland. One part of the exhibition was about their natural resources and the increased geographical significance once more ice melts away and paves way for new shipping routes for example. I left the exhibition with a bad feeling because this is just a recipe for disaster. In no way did I believe that it would only take a few months for this bullshit to kick off, even less so that the US would be the first to lay claim on Greenland

  16. Greenlanders and Greenland aren’t a group or a country that Americans think about at all. Not in a negative light, not in a positive light, just not at all.

    Until Donald Trump decided that Greenland was the most important thing of all time, Greenland was less significant in the American zeitgeist than Madagascar, which was at least the name of an animated movie.

  17. Always remember MAGA members, even years later you should spit on them. They should be declared mentally ill, a threat for society and therefore lost their right to vote, for lifetime.

  18. make no mistake- this is Trump doing Putin’s work

  19. That seems to be a very bad idea if they want to talk to greenlanders and get support for their idea.
    I often see a hunters pride in most greenlanders I talk to. A slow temper, but long memory.

    USA could have used diplomacy and kindness.

  20. I would advice the greenlanders to sack the US consulate in Greenland.

  22. Oh wow!

    This really does go to show the level of exceptionalism some Americans feel. Normalising the invasion of a country in such a pervasive way just goes to show how easily manipulated they are. What ego’s.

    Not only that but it implies the general level of education in US to be markedly lower than Europe if this actually has an effect on the public.

    It’s amazing how far they’ve slipped in terms of politics, attitudes and lastly, in terms of comedy.

    From the country that gave us greats like Robin Williams, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, we have this wet towel of a person, banded together under the same category as ‘Comedian’ as them. It’s not even funny in an Andy Kaufman – trying not to be funny, funny – way. He’s the kid that stops the rest of the class learning while he’s the only one laughing at his own material; it’s just embarrassing.

    This is the way you tell me they’re still putting lead in the water, without telling me they’re putting lead in the water.

  23. This belittling and dehumanizing discourse is exactly how Russian propagandists joke about whichever people the Kremlin is bullying at the moment… Georgians, Ukrainians, Estonians…

  25. This Andrew comedian guy recently said some pretty imperialistic things about Greenland on a show. It’s genuinely disgusting and concerning that some Americans say fucked up shit like this and don’t see an issue with it. I won’t forgive Russia for being imperialistic towards my country and I will hold the same standard for Americans. Id you think this way you are no better then those russians that want to expand their empire onto other people.

    Video https://youtube.com/shorts/5E0Kx2lBqBQ?si=or9uKcrCVROVWQcF

  26. Russian and American propagandists could shake hands.

  27. Puerto Rico is American territory. Not a state

    40% live below the poverty line. Wealth inequality is .545 compares to the already crazy amount of US level of 0.482 on the GINI coefficient.

    This is by design. Puerto Rico is only there to extract wealth for the US.

    That what’s in store for greenland.

  28. “i just like to conquer stuff”

    I hope he has massive diarrhea until the day he dies. From the diarrhea. So it could be pretty quick actually.

  29. Anyone who thinks America isn’t serious about taking Greenland by force if they don’t get their way is deluded. The mystery of why America supports Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a mystery any more. We’re back in a 19th century mindset. Canada and Mexico are almost certainly the subject of some “theoretical” plan deep inside MAGA HQ.

  30. IMO before it’s too late, France and UK should offer to put their nukes in Greenland.

  31. “Taking land is fun”.

    Great reasoning there. Have you considered other pe- ah, sorry, you’re extremely selfish and sociopathic. Almost forgot.

  32. The same networks have told viewers that Canada is now run by the Mexican drug cartels. They could not tell us WHICH cartel. I’m busy looking for tacos.

    They have said that fentenyl is “flooding” across the Canadian Border and had increased by 2000% (pick a bigly good number). It HAD gone up a significant percentage. From 2 kg the previous year to 43 kg this year.

    They need NOTHING from us. Except water, electricity, potash, oil, gas, meat without hormones and antibiotics, chickens, eggs. I have not seen anything at all about the catastrophes that are still unfolding in the States. Nothing about the fires, tornado, and hurricane damage. The impact of Elon”s slash and burn campaign. Just the latest crap out of his mouth.

    The distraction is working.

    They are convincing viewers that the USA has done nothing except selflessly give money and support to any and everyone with no strings attached. Every other country has been a leech, including Canada, Europe, the UK. Any and everyone. They made up completely fictional nonsense about trade deficits. They have peddled tarrifs as a “win” against those evil, self-centered, irrelevant countries that are not us. They don’t tell them it is a tax US consumers will pay.

    Then there is the endless whine. They took advantage!! Whine, moan, complain, distract, destroy.

    If his lips are moving, he is lying. We know he’s lying about Greenland and Denmark.

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