Ben Taub

Wait, this is true?

Well, so Charlie Kirk and Don Jr.

arrived in Nuuk, Greenland, with very little warning.

There was a sort of advanced team that had gone before them carrying MAGA caps to hand out to people.

But the locals weren't really sure what was happening until the Trump-branded 757 landed in their airport.

And at first, people were very curious, very open to the idea of a high profile visit, I think.

But during the course of the day, President Trump himself mentioned the prospect of a military takeover.

But the people at the time didn't know that this was happening.

They were simply hanging out with friends.

Don Jr.

and Charlie Kirk.

So they arrived in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and were greeted by a solitary Trump supporter, a Greenlander named Jorgen Boasen, who led them down to the harbor and over to Nuuk's most expensive hotel, where they hosted a number of locals for a very expensive lunch.

And it was only after they left that local journalists in Nuuk, working for the Greenlandic publications, found that in fact, among those supporters were a number of homeless people who had been recruited with the promise of a free meal.

And the portrayal in sort of both Charlie Kirk's words and those of Don Jr.

was that actually this was evidence of a profound support building for an American community.

takeover, effectively, framed as these people would like to join the United States.

And in the aftermath of their trip, there was a huge surge in propaganda and influencers, pro-Trump influencers arriving in Greenland and trying to sort of get a piece of their own

And the strange thing about this propaganda is it wasn't actually directed at persuading Greenlanders that it would be good for them to join the United States.

It was mostly aimed at convincing conservative Americans that this is something that Greenlanders wanted, rather than actually building organic support.

Actually, yes.