Max Colchester

It's more of a money pit.

They provide the Greenlandic government with what's called a grant every year to help pay for education and whatnot.

They also cover health care for the Greenlandic people, and they pay for the defense of Greenland.

So it's quite an expensive tab for the Danish government to pick up every year.

No, it's not really something he's addressed.

And it is this huge welfare state that he would be inheriting that would receive, you know, federal funding-wise, it would receive way more per capita than, say, Alaska or Washington, D.C.

does.

So it would be, to start with at least, it would be a huge drain on the federal purse to own and run Greenland.

I think many people feel that they've come to an accommodation with Denmark which works for them.

And they're wary of just throwing it all up in the air.

And of course, America has a bad record in dealing with indigenous people.

And they know that.

So I think the idea of letting in a load of mining prospectors from America in return for cash is a model they've seen has not worked for others in the past.

So I think they're wary.

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.