Overview
- The online petition has drawn roughly 280,000–290,000 signatures and remains live on Denmarkification.com.
- Its mock plan targets a $1 trillion crowdfund and rebrands California as “New Denmark,” with “Løs Ångeles” and “Hans Christian Andersenland.”
- Swiss-French activist Xavier Dutoit created the campaign with Danish friends to parody Trump’s renewed drive to acquire Greenland.
- The Greenland dispute has widened into a diplomatic rift, with tariff threats from Washington and an EU emergency meeting in Brussels scheduled this week.
- Danish and Greenlandic leaders say the island is not for sale as protests continue in Nuuk, and Trump has recently said he does not intend to use force.