Accompanied by a small entourage, Landry, who is also Governor of Louisiana, travelled for a business summit and will attend the opening of a new US consulate building.<\/p>\n
Also travelling with him is an American doctor, who told Danish network TV2 that he had volunteered “to assess the medical needs” in Greenland – a move that the country’s Health Minister Anna Wangenheim criticised as “deeply problematic”. <\/p>\n
Trump announced in February that he was sending a US hospital ship to Greenland, an offer flatly rejected by Greenland’s leader.<\/p>\n
Having been appointed to the envoy role in December 2025, Landry said the US president had told him to “go over there, and make a bunch of friends”.<\/p>\n
Jorgen Boassen, a Greenlandic Trump-fan who attended the president’s inauguration, accompanied Landry as he toured the city. <\/p>\n
The envoy also met a former mayor and various business leaders too.<\/p>\n
Controversially, his visit takes place without an official invite and as delicate high-stakes talks between the US, Denmark and Greenland continue. <\/p>\n
On Monday, Landry, who insists he is visiting on a goodwill mission, and the US Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery met Nielsen. <\/p>\n
“We clearly reiterated that the people of Greenland are not for sale and that Greenlanders have the right to self-determination,” the prime minister later told reporters. <\/p>\n
Nielsen noted the “good tone” of the meeting, but emphasised there would be no parallel discussion while top-level talks continued.<\/p>\n
Greenland’s foreign minister, Mute Egede, also said the US had not given up on its aims to acquire the territory. <\/p>\n
“We have our red line. The Americans’ starting point has not changed either,” Egede said, according to Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accompanied by a small entourage, Landry, who is also Governor of Louisiana, travelled for a business summit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-594144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}