Trump came 139 years too late to Greenland

The one American president Donald Trump uses undocumented ship calls to do laugh at the historical ties between Greenland and Denmark.

- The fact that they (Denmark, ed.) had a ship that docked there (i Greenland, ed.) 500 years ago, does not mean that they own the land. We had also many ships that came there, the president said as late as January 9.

The one American president Donald Trump uses undocumented ship calls to do laugh at the historical ties between Greenland and Denmark.

- The fact that they (Denmark, ed.) had a ship that docked there (i Greenland, ed.) 500 years ago, does not mean that they own the land. We had also many ships that came there, the president said as late as January 9.

But what kind of ships in Greenland several hundred years ago, like Donald Trump talking about?

Trump Jr. impressed by Hans Egede

Norwegian merchants also wanted to make a deal with Greenland, and the Bergen Company in 1721 sent three ships across the Atlantic. One ship was knocked back by hard weather at Cape Farewell, but "Haabet" and "Anne Christine" dropped anchor on 3 July The island of hope in the archipelago near Nuuk.

The missionary Hans Egede thus arrived in Greenland with two ships 305 years ago - and not, as claimed by Donald Trump, with a single ship 500 years ago. The defining ship landing in 1721 must have been common knowledge in the White House; otherwise can the president simply ask his son, Donald Trump Jr., as in January 2025 ahead The Hans Egede statue in Nuuk explained the proper context of the case:

- It is the missionary who came here in 1721; super cool stuff, one exclaimed impressed Donald Trump Jr.

Breaking news – in 1861

The very first issue of the Inuit world's oldest newspaper Atuagagdliutit was published on 1 January 1861. The top story, which filled both the front page and the next two pages, was about one naval visit to Nuuk the year before. Due to severe ice in South Greenland had the American schooner "Nautilus", the English naval ship "Bulldog" and four cargo ships on their way to the cryolite mine in Ivittuut sought shelter in Nuuk.

The headline sounded: Umiarssuarnik, aussame 1860me, Nûngmĩtunik. (In Danish: About the ships in the harbor of Nuuk in the summer 1860).

The newspaper did not yet have a photographer attached, but instead an illustrator: Aaron from Kangeq. The renowned artist depicted the intense crowding in the port of Nuuk on a woodcut which was printed in colour.

Thus became Atuagagdliutit the first newspaper in the world with color pictures in the columns. On board the American ship "Nautilus" were Professor Paul A. Chadbourne and students from Williams College in Massachusetts, which collected botanical and zoological specimens around Nuuk and Maniitsoq.

Donald Trump said last week that US ships came to Greenland for 500 years ago in 1526. It will be breaking news all the while that the United States first was founded 250 years ago in 1776. With the arrival of Hans Egede in 1721 and the "Nautilus" landing in 1860, it will be closer to the truth that Trump came 139 years too late to Greenland.