TRUMP'S A GANGSTER

We'll never sell our country out.. not even for a $1m each

- BY MARK McGIVERN in Greenland

IN Greenland's tiny capital of Nuuk an imposing new building dominates the skyline on the main drag.

It’s hardly a skyscraper but it grabs my attention as I arrive in Nuuk. And I soon learn that its purpose has become the focus of heated debate among locals.

The building is America’s brand new consulate and it dwarfs the cheerful, multi-coloured low-rise housing and office blocks that characterise the picture postcard town.

It was, until recently, looked on as a welcome addition to the world’s most remote city of just 20,000 inhabitants, a further commitment by American friends.

But statements by the world’s most powerful man have put a chill into the bones of people already living in the coldest place on earth.

Nuuk-based plumber Mads Pedersen, 35, told me of his disgust at President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take Greenland - by force if necessary.

Mads said: "It’s a s***show. This man has no boundaries, he doesn't care about laws or people and he is making direct threats to people who care so much about people in their communities.

"He is talking about buying everything - buying the land, buying the people.

"We can see he has been working on a plan to take over and we don't know what will be going on with extra US consular people coming over. But people don't want our home to turn into an American colony."

My first impressions of Nuuk - a five-hour flight from Copenhagen - reveal a modern town and Greenland's only shopping mall.

But with temperatures of -17C on our arrival, there was no mistaking life in Greenland is one of extremes. This is a town whose main industry is fishing and life is hard.

There are no McDonalds or Starbucks here. And that's the way locals like it.