– You think, what's next?

It is quiet on Campus Ilimmarfik.

A few university students are sitting around the campus with hot coffee in thermoses and looking intently at their computer screens – focused on preparing for January's exams.

It is quiet on Campus Ilimmarfik.

There is a bit of life in the canteen, though. People are getting coffee and buying sandwiches here.

- 65 kroner, says Maren Blytmann, who is behind the cash register.

The card machine beeps.

- Qujanaq.

From inside the canteen's large kitchen, steel dishes and trolleys rattle.

Together with her two colleagues, Aningâk Tobiassen and Lena Bidstrup, Maren Blytmann is busy making open sandwiches and making meatballs that can be frozen.

- Reindeer meatballs, explains Lena Bidstrup, who is the canteen manager.

When Lena Bidstrup has time off and isn't busy, she follows the news about the USA, Trump and Greenland.

She has been doing this ever since January 3rd, when the United States attacked Venezuela, took the country's president and his wife prisoner, and shortly after chose to reiterate its desire to take over Greenland.

- Of course I'm following along. 110 percent, she says.

Maren Blytmann washes her hands in the large kitchen sink. She is also excited about how it will all go – even though she is mostly interested in the immediate things going on at home.

“I don't follow it that much,” she says.

- I just ask my partner what's going on. He follows the TV news and radio news and stuff like that a lot.

Aningâk Tobiassen, a nutrition assistant, follows developments most on Facebook and on the radio.

- You think a lot about what he has done in Venezuela. Are we next, or what is happening, he asks.

Checking TV2 News at night

At the port of Nuuk, a handful of fishermen are busy fixing things on their dinghies. The seagulls scream and the engines hum.

Nukaaraq Lund Serritzlev comes walking up the jetty. He has just been out longlining, but he usually fishes for halibut in the fjord.

Now he has to change clothes before picking up his soon-to-be 2-year-old child from daycare.

It's mostly the Danish live news, like TV2News, that he's currently following, he says.

- I don't normally do it, but right now I do it at night because of the time difference, he says.

He follows along because he is worried.

- Trump would like to have Greenland. He says so – and there are many who say he means it, says Nukaaraq Lund Serritzlev.

- I am most worried about whether soldiers and military will come here.

Although he is worried and does not want Greenland to be the next US military target, he tells his family not to worry. You will have to wait and see what Donald Trump really wants, he tells them.

What do you hope will happen in the future?

- We don't know. But I'm looking forward to seeing if there will be any new opportunities for Greenland. For example, in relation to minerals or fishing, Nukaaraq's Lund Serritzlev answers.

Inside the warmth of the library in Nuuk sits Lisathe Møller. From the information desk on the first floor, she helps people with questions – mostly about books.

"Now again?" she thought when Donald Trump – just like last year and in 2019 – said he wanted to buy Greenland.

"A lot of people have been scared. But I don't want to be," she says.

- Last year I might have been a little scared, but this time I'm calmer.

Although Lisathe Møller follows a bit on Facebook and in the Greenlandic news media, she tries not to let the USA fill too much of her daily life.

So you're not worried?

- If you think about what he can do or start analyzing whether Trump will come with soldiers and conquer Greenland – that is the worst thing that can happen. But right now I don't want to think about that, she answers and continues:

- He is the president, but the United States also has other politicians who have to decide and decide. Not just him.

Hope for cooperation with the US

Back on campus in Nuuk, canteen manager Lena Bidstrup is rolling a trolley of narwhal meat from Uummannaq into the freezer.

In the commercial kitchen, it is the work that she and her colleagues concentrate on, and they can leave their worries about Trump behind.

The food still needs to be prepared. The students still need to eat.

- But of course we talk a little about what we've seen on the TV news and things like that when we come to work, says Lena Bidstrup.

When they arrive in the morning, there has often been a new development during the night that they can discuss with each other.

- You wonder what's next?, says the canteen manager.

Does it feel different about Trump's statements this time than it did last year when Donald Trump Jr. landed here in Nuuk?

- Now it's more serious, I think. Very serious, responds Lena Bidstrup.

Aningâk Tobiassen agrees. However, he finds some comfort in the fact that other countries – especially in the EU – are sending statements of support for Greenland.

"You feel a little safe when you think that some countries support us," he says.

What do you hope will happen in the near future?

- I hope that more of our political leaders can talk to the Americans about cooperation, Aningâk Tobiassen replies and adds:

- Not about taking over Greenland, but about working together.

Lena Bidstrup nods.

- One must hope that the diplomats and the Greenland government are good at negotiating, she says.