MAGA Hats and Middle Fingers
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) took a break from throwing out tens of thousands of his constituents’ votes this week to take a little foray to Greenland, the off-and-on target of President Donald Trump’s imperialistic whims.
Predictably, the locals did not take kindly to the special envoy’s visit.
One woman followed his entourage, reportedly yelling at him to “go home.”
In another episode that is physically uncomfortable to watch, a little boy asked whether Landry is famous. When Landry offered to take a photo with him, the boy said no.
His offer of MAGA hats to local children was reportedly rebuffed, and he was greeted by at least one middle finger.
He vented by lashing out at the journalists covering his trip, berating them for not giving Trump adequate credit for being the first president to pay attention to Greenland. That the attention was solely rapacious, he did not mention.
“Who cares more about Greenlanders than the Trump administration and the president? Because it seems that before the president, no one cared,” Landry exclaimed to the scrum.
While Trump has backed off (read: gotten distracted from) his desire to take Greenland by conquest, the United States is demanding a permanent installation of troops, veto power over major investments on the island and a share in the country’s natural resources, per the New York Times.
— Kate Riga
