Special Report: Greenlander’s Jorgen Boassen is a man on a mission to help Greenland take advantage of its untapped resources and economic potential. He is known as President Donald Trump’s “Son of Greenland.”
Nuuk, Greenland – First of all, Jorgen Boassen wanted to meet for Gin and Tonic. immediately. At his house. “Can I pick up some tonics and lime along the way?” he said, urgently in his voice.
Bossen then wanted to hot foot into a spongy sports hall for a Thai boxing match where the DJ was playing a remixed version of the 1980s global hit “Smooth Operator.”
A few hours and rounds – not a type of boxing – Boassen appeared at the largest hotel in Nuuk. There he waved a few hands, heard the lounge singers running through some jazz standards, and shook some hostile stares.
Former Brick Layer. Political influencer. Become a mining consultant. A man on a mission to help exploit Greenland’s undeveloped resources and economic potential. Traitors, some say – especially the man who smacked him in the face at a Nookdive bar in late April. Boassen, 51, says he is the version of all these. Most of them are the result of defending President Donald Trump in the dark place where he tends to end with rolled eyes, or in Boassen’s case, blackened with unusual support for the US president who vowed to take over Greenland “in some way.” Boassen is Greenland’s de facto representative of Maga.
“This is about the fight for the people of Greenland,” Boassen said one evening in June, sitting on the sofa in a cozy home in Greenland’s capital.
“It’s not because I hate Denmark. It’s about the power of Denmark in Greenland.”
Boassen almost stopped wearing them due to Trump’s rebound in Greenland, but he still wears a maga hat and a t-shirt depicting an American flag decorated with something like “American Badas.” He has been a Trump fan since 2019, when the US president first began talking about getting Greenland.
Trump says the US needs to “acquire Greenland” for national security reasons. It is located in a strategic location in the Arctic Circle. The melting of ice is increasing new routes and military activity in the Arctic. It also has a wealth of products such as oil, gold and rare earth minerals, which are essential for the production of smartphones and other advanced technologies.
Boassen is part of a very small but small Greenlander who appreciates Trump’s interest, polls show.
However, his support for Trump has not always been easy.
Boassen is bullied and laughed at, and faces death threats on social media. He has publicly declared he has almost a spiritual connection to Trump. He disagrees with every word he says. Bossen hopes that Greenland will become an independent country, but he hopes to have a close security and economic alliance with the United States.
Greenland son obsessed with Trump
Born in Qaqortoq, a town in southern Greenland, Boassen was raised by a single mother. Money is tough. Their home was modest. The fever was lacking. That world is far from what he now seeks to live as an Arctic political player with the ears of those in Trump’s inner circle.
“Trump is someone who can save us, but it’s hard to support him when we don’t know what his plans are,” he said.
Boassen is not a social media influencer. However, he owes some of his early influences on social media. He was discovered on Facebook by Thomas Duns, an American advisor to the Treasury Secretary for International Affairs, during Trump’s first term. DANS was also a member of the US Arctic Research Committee. Now he is promoting closer US Greenland bonds.
“I learned about Jorgen from a friend in the Greenland community,” Dance said. “He was called “Trump’s Greenland Son.” I said, “I need to meet this guy.” ”
Dans eventually tapped Boassen to serve as Greenland Director of American Daybreak, a nonprofit organization that works to educate and advance Trump’s first American foreign policy, particularly in the Arctic.
It was America’s dawn that in March attempted to arrange a visit to Greenland by Usha Vans, wife of US Vice President J.D. Vance, for Greenland’s National Thread Dog Race. However, after reports of planned protests by Greenland activists, the visit was revised to a short stop by Vance at a remote US military front post base on the island.
Greenlandic’s eavesdropper
Boassen has an impressive build. He was a boxing enthusiast and was used to train boxers. He sharply cleans his hair to one side. Like more than 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders, he identifies him as Inuit, an indigenous person living in the Arctic. But Bossen’s father is from Denmark and said he describes his bright skin tone and blue eyes.
Greenland was colonized by Denmark from the 18th century. That era ended in 1953, when Greenland became an autonomous territory.
Boassen is also a fast speaker to make publicity a court.
He has not eschewed the relative fame that his relationship with President Trump brought him to Greenland. Most days he demands journalists from around the world from journalists who want to see and talk about Trump’s unofficial local “Greenland envoy.” More than a few journalists have gone to his house.
“He is a natural leader with a deep love for Greenland and its people, coupled with his bold, crowd-pleasing personality and expert communication skills,” he said of Boassen. “He is also a true fighter as a former boxer and as a modern Inuit man formed in the great Arctic traditions of his people.”
“We’re different from Denmark.”
During my night with the USA Today reporter this summer, Boassen’s calls continued. He called DANS and placed him on his speakerphone. He wanted to prove that there were fellow Greenland travelers when it came to supporting Trump, so he video summoned a friend from High North in Greenland, not far from the Pitaffic space station Vance visited. Bossen is considering whether he wants to grant Danish filmmakers access to his life story for the documentary.
Bosen’s wife didn’t want to participate in the interview, but as her husband spoke, she sometimes sighed deeply, giving him a side eye he knew. If his comments were too closely wandering into their personal lives, she sometimes tried to steal him from the other side of the couch.
“Even if Danes have been here for 300 years, we’re different from Denmark,” Boassen said.
Boassen insisted on sharing his selection of “Greatest Hits” stored in YouTube video clips saved on his TV. When Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland in January, he was at the arrival door at the airport in Nuke. It was born after Boassen put on a canvas for a former president on the streets of Pittsburgh for weeks during the US presidential election in November 2024. Bossen went to an election night party in Palm Beach, Florida, near Trump’s Mar Arago residence. He attended Trump’s inauguration and was present along with opposition lawmaker Knofenker, a member of Greenland’s nationalist Narerak Party. It seeks Greenland’s independence, but it wants closer ties with the US.
On his mobile phone, Boassen has American musician Kidlock, MMA fighter Conor McGregor, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, political commentator Benshapiro, and others.
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“He has a very good feeling about how ordinary people in Greenland feel about issues affecting their daily lives,” said Fenker, a lawmaker who is Bossen’s best friend.
At his house, sipping gin and tonic, drinking beer and coffee, Bossen said, “I’m Che Guevara from Greenland.” It was a reference to Argentine physicians and revolutionaries who fought for social change in Latin America before being killed in the Bolivian jungle with the help of the CIA.
Of course, the trait was stretchy and partly joking, which Boassen admitted, but it still speaks how seriously he takes his dream of seeing Greenland, which has become independent in one day.
Romanian magazines
A few weeks ago, Boassen was in Romania with Dan. Bossen said he was invited to observe the Romanian elections by far-right candidate George Simion in the country’s election. Simion has a great belief in Trump’s Magai deology, Boassen said. (Simion lost his vote and later claimed it was due to foreign interference.)
When Bossen’s wife vented the opportunity, she grabbed the TV remote and switched the channel to a rerun of the music festival. Some of my favourite bands were playing, including Green Day, American Punk Rocker and British alternative rock bands. She also came to a boxing match. unwillingly.
On a walk from their home to the sports hall, Boassen said he was trying to form more partnerships with Greenland officials to help Trump’s White House, but it has been difficult recently to attract the attention of the US administration as he is immersed in other crises in the wars of Ukraine, Iran and Israeli Hamas. He said he is confident his phone was being stolen by Danish authorities. He admitted that he has not made a living from his work with America’s Dawn. People often ask if Trump is worried that he is “using him” in a way that he doesn’t appreciate, in a way that is not in Greenland’s best interest.
“I don’t know,” Bossen answered the question.
“But I would rather have Trump as President of the United States now than Kamala Harris,” he said. “Anyway, bricklaying didn’t make a lot of money for me. It’s too honest. No one would hire me because I support Trump.”
Kim Hjelmgaard is an international correspondent for USA Today. Follow him on Bluesky, Instagram and LinkedIn.
