Danish-American relations reached a fresh low this week after claims that the US was conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, the vast Arctic island that Donald Trump wants the US to control.
But at the same time, prominent figures linked to Trump and his team have been promoting the US president’s agenda on Greenland in a way that is anything but covert.
One such influencer is Thomas Dans — an investor, former US Arctic commissioner and Treasury official during the president’s first administration, and prolific poster on social media. While he stresses that he has no official role, media on the island have christened him “Trump’s man in Greenland”.