Homeless Greenlanders took up Donald Trump Jr.’s lunch invitation for ‘free food’: report
Guests dining at a luncheon in Greenland hosted by Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly invited off the street and just showed up at the exclusive Hotel Hans Egede for free food, according to a new report.
While the group donned MAGA hats, they were not in fact dedicated supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, and many in the group were homeless people who “his team had met on the street who found out only later who Trump Jr. was,” the Guardian reported.
“[Trump Jr.] had just met them in the street and invited them for lunch, or his staff did,” Jørgen Bay-Kastrup, the hotel’s chief executive, told the publication. “But I don’t think they knew who they were inviting.”
Trump Jr.’s brief trip to Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, came last week as part of a “personal” goodwill visit as his father, the incoming president, has refused to drop his fixation with the United States acquiring the Danish territory in the interest of national security.
Part of Trump Jr.’s visit included a stop at the hotel for lunch with a group of about 15 MAGA hat-wearing locals who dined on what is being described as a “traditional Greenlandic lunch including fish and caribou.”
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“That of course was a little bit strange to us because we saw guests that we have never seen in our hotel before – and will probably never see again because it’s out of their economical means,” Bay-Kastrup told the Guardian.
He added, however, that they didn’t appear to be Trump supporters.
“They were just, ‘Hey, somebody invited us for lunch, let’s go and join him,’” Bay-Kastrup said, as reported by the Guardian.
But Arthur Schwartz, a close ally of Trump Jr., poured cold water on the Guardian report, describing the idea that the president’s son would invite homeless people to lunch “beyond the pale ridiculous.”
“Do you think Donald Trump Jr. was wandering around Greenland inviting homeless people… to lunch, or do you realize that the suggestion sounds so beyond the pale ridiculous that you should feel stupid even asking the question?” he said, according to the publication.
Trump’s interest in buying Greenland has received support from some MAGA lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who have embraced a bill – titled “Make Greenland Great Again Act” – authorizing the president-elect to engage in discussions involving its purchase.