Thursday’s opening of a new U.S. consulate in Greenland‘s capital city of Nuuk did not go well for the Americans, as protesters swamped the street, according to video posted by Orla Joelsen, a native Greenlander and prison official in Nuuk.

“Go home USA!” participants could be heard chanting.

At least one protester held up a sign that read, “Greenland is not for sale!”

It’s been a difficult week for Americans in Nuuk.

The Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said he would not attend Thursday’s opening of the new consulate.

“We haven’t made a decision in principle, but I won’t participate,” the prime minister told the Greenlandic news outlet Sermitsiaq, according to a Google translation.

President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry, touched down in Nuuk on Sunday, saying he arrived “simply to build relationships,” and to “see if there are opportunities” to expand them.

His appeal to several young Greenlanders, free chocolate chip cookies if they traveled to visit him, was met with a poor response.

“If you come to Louisiana,” Governor Landry said, “and you come to the governor’s mansion — all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat.”

But Prime Minister Nielsen on Monday said Greenland would not become part of the U.S., “no matter how many ‘chocolate cookies’ we get,” according to the Times-Picayune.

The relationship between Greenland and the United States has been tense since President Donald Trump began his campaign to have the U.S. take over the autonomous territory that is part of Denmark. Trump at times has threatened to use force to secure Greenland, even saying he would do so the “easy way” or “the hard way.”

“We’re not gonna have Russia or China occupy Greenland, and that’s what they’re gonna do if we don’t,” Trump said in January. “So we’re gonna be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way.”

The demonstrators are chanting “Go home, USA” outside the consulate.

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— Orla Joelsen (@OJoelsen) May 21, 2026

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was dispatched to Capitol Hill to present details of President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate alleged victims of “weaponization” by the Biden DOJ.

According to reports, the meeting with Senate Republicans “did not go well.”

CNN’s Manu Raju reported that Blanche faced “stiff resistance.” He added that he was “told most senators voiced opposition to the fund — hardly any came to its defense.”

“Blanche struggled Thursday to quash GOP concerns over a newly announced $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund,” Politico reports. “Blanche met privately with Senate Republicans as the administration and GOP leaders tried to defuse the controversy over the fund.”

“Nearly 2-hour meeting with Acting AG Todd Blanche and Senate Republicans was incredibly hostile, per multiple attendees,” Punchbowl News senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio reported.

“As many as 25 GOP senators spoke (this is very rare for these meetings), all in opposition to weaponization fund,” he noted.

For their part, Republicans “pitched specific ideas such as dictating how the 5 commissioners are chosen,” and “not allowing people convicted of violence against cops to be eligible for a payout.”

One prominent Senate Republican, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, confronted Blanche “about the weaponization fund at the Senate GOP meeting,” reported Semafor congressional bureau chief Burgess Everett.

“Meeting being described as a ‘s——’ per people familiar with it,” Everett noted. He added that the senator “hates the fund” and called it “stupid on stilts” earlier today.

Not only did the meeting not go well, the D.C. Examiner’s Ramsey Touchberry said that he hasn’t heard that any Republican changed their minds. The D.C. Examiner’s David Sivak described the Senate GOP as “super tight-lipped after the Blanche meeting.”

Earlier on Thursday President Donald Trump was asked if he is “losing control” of Senate Republicans.

“I don’t know,” the president replied.

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As more and more Senate Republicans break ranks with him, President Donald Trump says he’s not sure if he still has control over them.

Republican Senators are increasingly pushing back on key elements of President Donald Trump’s agenda, especially the $1 billion for security enhancements to his White House ballroom project, and his $1.8 billion “weaponization” of the DOJ fund for alleged victims.

At an Oval Office event on Thursday, reporters asked the president if he’s losing control of Republicans.

“Mr. President, with many Americans concerned about affordability ahead of the midterms, there is some backlash from the Senate Republicans to some of your other priorities: the ballroom and the anti-weaponization fund,” a reporter said. “You clearly still have a stronghold on the Republican Party, and your candidates did very well during the primaries.”

“But are you in control of the Senate, sir?” the reporter asked. “Are you losing control of the Senate, Senate Republicans?”

“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “I really don’t know.”

“I can tell you, I only do what’s right,” he continued, before launching into great detail about the ballroom.

“I don’t need money for the ballroom. You know I’m making a gift of the ballroom. This is the biggest misreporting that I’ve ever seen. The ballroom is being built. It’ll cost, it was gonna be $200 million, I’ve doubled the size of it, ’cause we need it, and it’s being done in conjunction with the military and with the very much in conjunction with the military and Secret Service. We’re on time, on budget, it’s going beautifully.”

“We’re making a gift to the United States,” he said. “The ballroom is paid for. It’s a gift.”

When asked about the $1 billion in security enhancements, and what would happen if Congress does not approve the funds, Trump was matter-of-fact.

“Then the White House won’t be a very secure place,” he lamented.

Q: “Are you losing control of the Senate, Senate Republicans?”

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— CSPAN (@cspan) May 21, 2026

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