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On Sunday, Donald Trump’s personal envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry, landed in Nuuk. The visit has set off a flurry of speculation and difficult political calculations.

Trump’s envoy is causing headaches in Nuuk

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry delivers remarks, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 24, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Foto: Carlos Barria/Ritzau Scanpix
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry delivers remarks, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 24, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Foto: Carlos Barria/Ritzau Scanpix
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How do you host a guest who was never invited?

No officials or politicians in Nuuk or Copenhagen have put it that way in public. But a twist on a well-known coffee advertising slogan neatly captures the diplomatic headache set off by the visit to Nuuk of Trump’s envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry.

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