Aaja Chemnitz says she is skeptical of the new U.S. agreement until its content can be seen
Aaja ChemnitzFormer 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
In a Danish-language Facebook post on the morning of September 19, 2026, former Folketing member Aaja Chemnitz wrote that she looks forward to the new agreement with the USA being finalized and its content becoming visible, that until then she is skeptical, and that she does not have much confidence in Trump. The same post says more U.S. military presence is not the solution for Greenland right now, and that she is grateful for the work behind the agreement and is crossing her fingers for the best. The quotation is an English translation of two consecutive paragraphs of the Danish original.
“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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Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
On September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he said gives the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland.” Danish and Greenlandic officials initially described an expected agreement and emphasized sovereignty and self-determination. On September 22, the White House published an agreement text dated that day. It reaffirms Denmark’s sovereignty and Greenland’s right to self-determination; provides for U.S. defense areas and access under stated procedures; bars non-NATO states from establishing military installations unless the parties agree otherwise; and has no end date. The text says it enters into force only after diplomatic notice of necessary parliamentary procedures. The dispute remains over how Trump’s “permanent control” description compares with the document’s terms.
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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 quotation 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. The post's timestamp is shown 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.
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First published 2026-09-18 22:09 UTC; the current version, updated 2026-09-19 11:36 UTC, 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.
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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.
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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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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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