Max Colchester

I was walking around the port in Nuuk and I bumped into a fellow who was walking his dog and started chatting to him.

And he invited me into his office and he works at a shrimp trawler company.

And we started chatting and I said, oh, well, what do you think?

Do you think you'd like to be part of America?

He said, no, no, no, absolutely not.

But then the more we chatted, the more he said, well, actually, I'd be interested to hear what Trump is offering.

What's the deal?

And I found that interesting because it's, you know, I know a lot of Greenlanders say they don't want to become American, but I think it would be very interesting to see what happens if Trump did put an offer on the table.

I don't know.

I just think what we've seen in the last 24 hours has been so kind of crazy.

I mean, you saw these private texts between leaders and Trump.

Based on those texts, it seems like the leaders want to have a talk with him and try and work out a solution without escalating.

Well, good luck with that.

Yeah, exactly.

It sounds like a good theme.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's what they'll be hoping.

Dialogue.

I think they're hoping they can apply the Ukraine playbook to Trump, which is that, you know, he comes out, says something which sends everybody into a tears, and then they all rush over to Washington and chat to him.

And then actually he kind of kicks the can a bit down the road and they walk him back from the cliff a bit.

And so I suspect that's what they'll try to do.