Jørgen Boassen

Jørgen Boassen (born 1974) is a Greenlandic bricklayer and political activist known for his support of incumbent US president Donald Trump. Boassen rose to notoriety in 2025 following a series of statements by Trump about the United States acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. In August 2025, he was mentioned in the context of covert US operations to foment secessionism and anti-Danish sentiment in Greenland.[1][2][3] Danish media including DR reported that these three individuals were conducting influence operations in Greenland such as collecting lists of American-friendly individuals, Trump critics, and arguments to use against Danish rule.[4][5][6] He decried the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025.[7][8]

Early life

He was born in Qaqortoq, a small coastal town in southern Greenland, in 1974 and raised by a single mother and maternal grandmother.[9]

Political activities

After the 2020 US election, Boassen said on 6 November that he thought Biden would underprioritize Greenland.[10] In November 2024, he expressed skepticism about building Praxis in Greenland.[11]

Donald Trump Jr. visit to Greenland

During the 2024 United States presidential election, Boassen canvassed for the Trump campaign on the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[12][13] During the visit of Donald Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk to Nuuk on 7 January 2025, Boassen was their guide,[14][15] although he also stated his opposition to American acquisition of Greenland.[16] Boassen at the time also expressed interest in running in the 2025 Greenlandic general election held on 11 March.[17] On how the visit came about, Boassen stated that he had been contacted by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, who had offered him to become their guide.[18][19]

Local media reported that Boassen coordinated a group of up to 15 Greenlanders who waited for the president's son wearing "Make America Great Again" caps and accompanied him throughout his four-and-a-half-hour stay on the island.[20][21] Following Trump Jr.'s visit to Greenland, Politiken characterised him on 7 January as "unofficial liaison officer between Greenland and the Trump camp".[22][23] Kuno Fencker and Boassen met with Thomas Dans when the latter arrived in Nuuk on 11 January.[24][25][26]

Later activities

Dans and Boassen travelled to the United States on 13 January,[24] having organised a Greenlandic delegation to the second inauguration of Donald Trump, while Pele Broberg attended a watch party of Trump's inauguration speech at Greenland's Parliament, formed in case the US President would mention Greenland. Trump did not mention Greenland, but Broberg nonetheless welcomed Trump's interest, both for increasing the island's value and for "freaking out Denmark".[27] Boassen was invited to Washington D.C. to attend Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony and to talk to Americans about Greenland. He filmed himself in the House of Representatives and photographed himself in the West Wing of the White House.[20][28][29] He visited Mar-a-Lago.[30]

To Jyllands-Posten, Boassen told in March 2025 that he had played a role in making the Americans fund an annual dog sledding race on the occasion of the visit of US vice president JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance to Greenland on 28 March.[31][32] The New York Times described in March 2025 Boassen as "Trump's No. 1 Fan in Greenland".[33][34]

On 11 March 2025, Boassen told Il Post:[35]

We will become an independent state. We are only 56 thousand people, we cannot have everything, and the United States is our closest ally, regardless of who the president is, even if it is not Trump. I'm thinking of an association of some kind, like Puerto Rico

— Boassen to Il Post, 11 March 2025

For the second round of the 2025 Romanian presidential election in May 2025, Boassen travelled with Dans to Bucharest, Romania to support George Simion against eventual winner Nicușor Dan, clarifying to HotNews that the trip was financed by Dans' organisation, American Daybreak.[36][20]

Boassen has said that his work, including travel and living expenses, has been financed by wealthy American donors, who he did not name when asked to do so.[37][26]

Altercations with other Greenlanders

Ben Taub of The New Yorker magazine "was told by several people [in Nuuk] that Boassen was known for groping women and getting into drunken fights"; Boassen denies these allegations.[26] A man who grew up with Boassen in Qaqortoq told Reuters that, in the 1990s, Boassen had stabbed him in the shoulder with a knife, due to a rivalry over a girl.[37]

Boassen has been banned from Nuuk's public swimming pool, from a mixed martial arts gym in the city, and from the Hotel Hans Egede;[26] Boassen claims that he was banned from the MMA gym due to his political association with Donald Trump, while staff at the hotel say they had banned him for "repeatedly harassing or threatening patrons."[37] Boassen has "repeatedly hurled verbal abuse at Greenlandic politicians in public," including 2 parliamentarians at a café in Nuuk in 2025.[37]

In early February 2025, Boassen stated that he had received death threats.[38][39] On 10 March 2025,[40] Boassen stated that two days prior he had been violently assaulted at a bar and had reported the alleged crime to the police on Greenland.[40]

Other activities

On 19 May, Statstidende, the official government gazette of Denmark reported that Boassen's company founded in 2019 had filed for bankruptcy.[41][42][43] Boassen stated to B.T. that the bankruptcy was caused by a lack of time due to his political activities.[44] He is a former boxer.[45] In February 2025, Boassen said that he has supported Trump since his 2016 campaign.[19] On his support for Trump, Boassen told The Washington Post in an interview published on 14 January that "The more the Danish media hated Trump [during his first term] the more I liked him", adding "My friends were all laughing at me".[45]

References

  1. ↑ Milne, Richard (30 August 2025). "The pro-Trump influencer making waves in Greenland". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Trump-støtter i Grønland: Vi kender ikke til "hemmelig" amerikansk påvirkningskampagne". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Disse mennesker forsøger helt åbent at trække Grønland tættere på USA". Politiken - Den levende avis (in Danish). 28 August 2025. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  4. ↑ Kirby, Paul (27 August 2025). "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation". BBC News. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. ↑ "Denmark summons US envoy over claims of interference in Greenland". AP News. 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  6. ↑ Milne, Richard (27 August 2025). "Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged covert influence operations in Greenland". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  7. ↑ Krog, Thomas Nørmark (11 September 2025). "Jørgen kendte skuddræbte Charlie Kirk: 'Det er skræmmende'". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Charlie Kirks grønlandske ven: "Han havde altid tid til at snakke med mig"". Frihedsbrevet (in Danish). 11 September 2025. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  9. ↑ Tekeli, Maya; London, Jeffrey Gettleman From (11 May 2025). "Trump's No. 1 Fan in Greenland: A Bricklayer Turned Political Player". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "VIDEO Jørgen Boassen er glødende Trump-fan og har svært ved at sove om natten". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Grunnet, Clara (16 November 2024). "Han tiltrækker tech bros, neofascister og modeller. Mød den 28-årige millionær, der vil købe Grønland". Zetland (in Danish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  12. ↑ "Jorgen Boassen, le trumpisme version groenlandaise" (in French). 10 March 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  13. ↑ Wenger, Brigitte (11 January 2025). "Grönlands grösster Trump-Fan: Wie ein Maurer den PR-Besuch von Trump Jr. orchestrierte". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  14. ↑ "Trump's folly? Greenland girds itself for U.S. onslaught". POLITICO. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  15. ↑ Ritzau. "Donald Trump Jr. er landet i Grønland". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  16. ↑ Colchester, Max. "Trump's Talk of Buying Greenland Energizes Island's Independence Movement". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "Hvem er Jørgen Boassen? - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 14 January 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  18. ↑ Synnestvedt, Anne Meisner (7 January 2025). "Forleden fik grønlandske Jørgen Boassen en uventet besked: »Hi Jorgen,« stod der – i dag har han fået en særlig opgave". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  19. 1 2 "Interviu în Groenlanda cu inuiții susținători ai ideilor lui Trump: "Sigur că vrem o zonă arctică fără tensiune. Dar nu putem fi naivi: trebuie să ne dotăm mai bine dacă și alții se dotează. Sunt de acord cu Donald Trump" - HotNews.ro" (in Romanian). 8 February 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  20. 1 2 3 "Oaspete neașteptat din Groenlanda pentru unul dintre candidații la alegerile prezidențiale din România. "Am ajuns joi noaptea. Mi-au plătit hotelul" - HotNews.ro" (in Romanian). 17 May 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  21. ↑ "Jørgen Boassen er på kram med Trump Junior: Jeg blev inviteret med tilbage". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  22. ↑ "Trumps kontakt i Grønland hedder Jørgen og er murer". Politiken - Den levende avis (in Danish). 7 January 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  23. ↑ "Jørgen Boassen lægger ikke skjul på stoltheden over, at han har fået rigsfællesskabet til at vakle". Politiken - Den levende avis (in Danish). 30 March 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  24. 1 2 Holm, Mads Malik Fuglsang; Christiansen, Andrea (17 January 2025). "Trumps sande mand i Grønland" (in Danish). KNR. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  25. ↑ Nuuk, Af Maja Nyvang ChristensenMarie Ravn NielsenLasse Lindegaard i (2 March 2025). "Forretningsmand drømmer om et Grønland tættere på Trumps USA – uden det koster bloktilskud". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  26. 1 2 3 4 Ben Taub (15 June 2026). "Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland". The New Yorker.
  27. ↑ Mark Leibovich (26 January 2025). "Greenland's Prime Minister Wants the Nightmare to End". The Atlantic.
  28. ↑ Thorsson, Elías (3 March 2025). "Trump's man in Greenland is on a mission to establish American control". ArcticToday. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  29. ↑ Thorsson, Elías (26 March 2025). "Obscure U.S. group 'American Daybreak' central to controversial Greenland visit". ArcticToday. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  30. ↑ Synnestvedt, Anne Meisner (15 January 2025). "Trumps mand i Nuuk har forladt Grønland. Nu sidder han tæt på Mar-a-Lago og venter på et vigtigt opkald". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  31. ↑ Mygind, Peter S. (24 March 2025). "Han var vært for Trump Jr. – nu har han en aktie i andendamens besøg i Grønland". Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  32. ↑ Klinge, Af Karen KlærkeTobias Leth (24 March 2025). "USA poster penge i transport af hunde, slæder og kuske ved grønlandsk slædeløb". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  33. ↑ Tekeli, Maya; London, Jeffrey Gettleman From (11 May 2025). "Trump's No. 1 Fan in Greenland: A Bricklayer Turned Political Player". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  34. ↑ O'Sullivan, Donie (9 February 2025). "Trump's desire for Greenland sets feelings on fire in the Arctic". CNN. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  35. ↑ "L'uomo di Trump in Groenlandia". Il Post (in Italian). 11 March 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  36. ↑ "Pludselig stod kontroversiel grønlandsk Trump-fan i Rumænien og støttede højreradikal præsidentkandidat". Frihedsbrevet (in Danish). 23 May 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  37. 1 2 3 4 Pete McKenzie; Jacob Grønholt-Pedersen (17 April 2026). "MAGA figures are pushing Trump's campaign to grab Greenland. But it's tough sledding". Reuters.
  38. ↑ "Jørgen Boassen har modtaget dødstrusler". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  39. ↑ Børding, Per (7 February 2025). "Fik taget billeder med Trump Jr.: Modtager dødstrusler". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  40. 1 2 Krog, Thomas Nørmark (10 March 2025). "Kendt Trump-støtte: Jeg blev slået ned på bar". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  41. ↑ Emma Buus Mosegaard (22 May 2025). "Trumps superfan i Grønland går konkurs". ekstrabladet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  42. ↑ Citathistorie, Det Nordjyske Mediehus / (22 May 2025). "Kendt for Trump-støtte: Jørgen Boassen er gået konkurs" [Trump's superfan in Greenland goes bankrupt]. www.sermitsiaq.ag (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  43. ↑ "Jørgen Boassen på konkurs - auktioner.dk - auktioner.dk". auktioner.dk. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  44. ↑ Fruergaard, Oliver (23 May 2025). "Grønlandsk Trump-støtte går konkurs: 'Fordi jeg har arbejdet med amerikanerne'". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  45. 1 2 "In Greenland, a cold shoulder for Trump, but curiosity about U.S. ties". The Washington Post. 14 January 2025. Archived from the original on 26 July 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
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