Charlie Kirk came back from a two-day trip to Greenland convinced that its people want to throw off the mantle of Danish control and become part of the American empire.
The 31-year-old MAGA youth leader joined his friend Donald Trump Jr. for a quick trip to Greenland to “get to know the culture” ahead of Trump Sr. taking office on Jan. 20, he told Glenn Beck on Wednesday.
After Trump Force One touched down, “We were met by hundreds of people,” he said. “People in MAGA hats in the streets of [capital city] Nuuk. People that love America. That want to be part of America.”
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Donald Trump announced last month he wanted to take another crack at buying Greenland, an autonomous region of Denmark that is very much not for sale. A disastrous attempt to buy the island—which is strategically located in the North Atlantic and has extensive mineral reserves—during Trump’s first term in office caused a diplomatic firestorm.
Now the president-elect is hinting he would seize Greenland by military force if he had to. But after spending about 48 hours there as a tourist, Kirk—who founded the activist group Turning Point USA and is host of an eponymous show on the conservative Salem News Channel—is convinced the people of Greenland don’t really want independence anyway and want to be controlled by Trump.
“A young boy comes up and says, ‘Charlie, I follow you on TikTok. I need to show you something,’” Kirk said during an episode of his own show on Wednesday, the same day he spoke to Beck. “He says, ‘In my village three hours from here when we just kind of go out into the countryside, we find rubies the size of baseballs.’”
The young boy then reportedly told him, “The Danes don’t let us mine our rubies, our gold, our lithium or our gas, and it’s time for a rebellion against the Danes.”
This supposed interaction made Kirk realize the young people of Greenland want to be rich, he explained, as all lithium-loving young boys do. From there, he apparently made the leap that they want to be rich Americans.
“I saw that the people of Denmark mistreat them, take advantage of them. And they want to be part of America,” he told Beck.
The conservative pundits agreed that spending $1.5 trillion to buy Greenland was the best investment America could make in their lifetimes, though they didn’t address where the money might come from.
After being reminded that the Danes weren’t interested in selling, Kirk replied, “How much of a say do the Danes actually have? We pay for all of their military defense basically for NATO. We’re the ones keeping Putin at bay… It’s time we flex a little bit of that muscle.”
And if that doesn’t work, there’s always Trump’s backup plan of not ruling out a military invasion. But according to Kirk, at least, the people of Greenland would be enthusiastic subjects.
