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Fox News Sends Reporter to Find MAGA in Greenland and It Majorly Backfires

There was one die-hard Donald Trump fan who made his way to the Fox News cameras, however.

A Fox News reporter dispatched to Greenland’s capital city found that “most” of the residents it spoke to were not so keen on Donald Trump.

The network aired a live report Tuesday afternoon from Nuuk, where its London-based correspondent Alex Hogan made the revelation while standing outside in the frigid weather.

Hogan tracked down one MAGA superfan—who has also made his rounds in interviews with Danish media—who showed off his Trump merch like a t-shirt and pins. That man, Jørgen Boassen, called Greenland the “front door” to America and said it needs protecting from China and Russia.

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Other residents of the Danish territory did not share his sentiment, it seems.

“Most other Greenlanders we spoke with quickly bashed Trump’s comments, calling them offensive,” Hogan reported.

The network then aired snippets of interviews with Greenlanders, which included one saying he wanted to “stick with” the Danish government and another saying he would “prefer to be with Denmark.”

How Greenland’s 56,000 residents feel about joining the U.S. has been all the rage in conservative circles this month. Trump has stated the U.S. needs to annex the island, which is three times the size of Texas, for military and economic purposes.

Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Nuuk for a day trip with the right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk earlier this month to scout out the city and meet with residents. They left the territory with scores of photos where they posed with Greenlanders donning the signature red MAGA hat.

It emerged shortly after the trip that most of the MAGA support in Nuuk had been “staged,” a Greenlandic politician alleged.

Pipaluk Lynge, from Greenland’s largest party and chair of the parliamentary foreign and security policy committee, told Politico that the younger Trump had pulled off a “stunt.” Local reports said most of the red MAGA hats included in photos were handed out by the Trump traveling party, and Denmark’s national radio station, DR, reported that some of those included in photos were homeless.

“No journalists were allowed to interview him,” said Lynge, referring to Don Jr. “It was all staged to make it seem like we—the Greenlandic people—were MAGA and love to be a part of the USA.”

The president-elect raved about his son’s trip on Truth Social, going as far as sharing a video of a Greenlander who praised him. That man, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted smuggler who was sentenced to four years in prison after a 2019 drug bust, DR reported.

These apparent public support setbacks have not stopped Trump from flirting with a Greenland acquisition. When asked last week if he would rule out using military force to take the territory from the longtime U.S. ally Denmark (and the Panama Canal from Panama), he refused.

“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two,” Trump responded. “But I can say this, we need them for economic security.”

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