USA-Analyst: King Frederik will be able to stop Donald Trump

Diplomacy can come in many forms – also with king crowns and elephant orders.

And according to US analyst Torsten Jansen, Denmark’s best bet to tame Donald Trump’s storm of Greenland and national security being to send the majesty into the offensive.

On his Instagram profile, former DR correspondent and long-time knows of American politics does not know his fingers in between when analyzing the situation around the Republican president and his sustained interest in Greenland.

An interest that has again put Denmark in a delicate position between great powers and stormy announcements.

Torsten Jansen draws parallels to Britain, where Prime Minister Keir Stormer recently visited Trump and presented a personal invitation from King Charles. A gesture that, according to Jansen, speaks directly to Trump’s need for magnificence and symbolic victories.

« The only thing that in reality might … make this go away. It would be if she (the prime minister, ed.) Did like Keir Stormmer. If she now took the upcoming Greenland government leader under her arm and went to the White House and gave Trump a letter from the king and said, ‘Come to Greenland, and see what it is and then come to a gala dinner in Copenhagen and then get an elefantic order’, ‘