Aaja Chemnitz says she is skeptical of the new U.S. agreement until its content can be seen
Former Inuit Ataqatigiit member of the Danish Folketing for Greenland (2015 to March 2026) and senior adviser at the consultancy Inuva, on her public Facebook page
“I'm looking forward to the ink being dry on the new agreement with the USA. And to us being able to see the content. Until then, I'm skeptical. I don't have much confidence in Trump.”
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Her own public post on her Facebook page (photo post, 'feeling thankful at Nuuk', shared with Public). Danish original of the quoted paragraphs: 'Jeg glæder mig til blækket er tørt på den nye aftale med USA. Og til at vi kan se indholdet. Indtil da er jeg skeptisk.' / 'Jeg har ikke den store tiltro til Trump.' The English exactQuotation is a translation; Facebook's own machine translation renders the first sentence as 'I'm looking forward to the deal being finalized' and differs. The post continues with six more paragraphs: she does not buy Trump's premise of acute threats near Greenland other than U.S. political ones; the solution for Greenland right now is not more U.S. military presence but a more robust economy, welfare and security; respect for sovereignty and self-determination should be a matter of course; she is crossing fingers, is grateful for the work put into the agreement and hopes it solves many challenges. Facebook may block automated fetching; the timestamp is visible on hover.
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Danish-language news item that quotes the first two paragraphs of her Facebook post word for word as two bulleted quotes, calls her 'tidligere folketingsmedlem for IA' and paraphrases other parts of the post. Opened twice on 2026-09-19; unchanged between reads.
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First published 2026-09-18 22:09 UTC; the version opened was updated 2026-09-19 11:36 UTC and carries this quotation, which post-dates the first publication. BBC's own English rendering of her Danish is 'until then, I'm sceptical' and 'I don't have much confidence in Trump'. It also states the agreement text has not been published.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Before the quotation
On September 18, 2026, President Trump announced on Truth Social a U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, and the Danish Prime Minister's Office and Greenland's government issued a joint release describing an expected agreement. The text of the agreement had not been published.
After the quotation
Sermitsiaq and the BBC reported her post later on September 19. That day the agreement's text remained unpublished, and signing was expected at the UN General Assembly the following week.
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Case context: Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is President Trump's description, in his September 18 Truth Social post, of a not-yet-signed, unpublished U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement as giving the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. Chemnitz does not address that wording; she says she looks forward to the agreement being finalized and its content being visible, and that until then she is skeptical and has little confidence in Trump, so her position waits on a text nobody outside the three governments had seen. The closest competing label is condemns, because she voices distrust of Trump and elsewhere in the post says more U.S. military presence is not the solution. That loses because she does not reject the agreement or Trump's description of it, and the same post says she is grateful for the work behind the agreement and hopes it addresses many of Greenland's challenges.
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