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George Chidi in Atlanta

Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’

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Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Owen Strickland’s life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics. But this particular moment has been giving his political science degree – with a concentration in national security policy and international relations – a workout.

Donald Trump’s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president’s supporters in conservative communities – to the degree that this issue has their attention at all – are apt to accept his political argument as genuine.

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