Jacob Heinel Jensen
Role at the time: U.S. correspondent (USA-korrespondent) at Berlingske, in a signed analysis ('Analyse') on berlingske.dk
Statement summary
In a signed analysis published by Berlingske at 7:39 PM EDT on the day of the announcement, U.S. correspondent Jacob Heinel Jensen wrote that the wildest part is not the agreement itself but that ministers, diplomats and officials managed to sell it to Trump as a big personal success. The article's headline says Trump should not be told it is the Kingdom of Denmark that has prevailed. The quotation is a translation from Danish; only the article's opening paragraphs were readable without a subscription.
“The wildest part is not the agreement itself, which the U.S. is entering into with Greenland and Denmark. The wildest part is that ministers, diplomats and officials have managed to sell it to Trump as a big personal success for the president.”
Why we used this label
Heinel Jensen writes that officials succeeded in selling the agreement to Trump as a big personal success, and elsewhere in the analysis says the result is far from Trump's ambition to make Greenland American and that the Kingdom's sovereignty is apparently not violated, while reporting Trump's no-expiry and no-adversary-presence statements without evaluating them. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, because he also calls the outcome a success for the U.S., Greenland and Denmark. That loses because that welcome is of the outcome, is not made conditional on anything and does not endorse Trump's description, while what he says about the description itself is a dispute over what the agreement means and who prevailed.