On Wednesday evening, downtown Nuuk was busy with Greenlanders commuting home, picking children up from school and visiting local supermarkets. Yet as residents continued with daily life, there lingered an ever-present cloud of anxiety after Donald Trump doubled down on his threats to annex Greenland in a speech in front of world leaders at Davos.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, the US president said that he would not use military force to acquire Greenland, but that he was “seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States”.
