Stellan Skarsgård denounces Trump’s Greenland pursuit as 'absurd'

Movieweb reports that Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, speaking at the European Film Awards in Berlin on January 17, described US president Donald Trump's pursuit of Greenland as "absurd."

On the same day Trump announced he would impose 25% trade tariffs on Demark, Norway, France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland if a deal for the US to take over Greenland was not secured. The president has said his interest is based on a militaristic strategy, while detractors point to a seizing of untapped natural resources. Skarsgård said, "It's absurd, isn't it? It's a little man who got megalomania, and he's trying to take the world. He took Venezuela, suddenly, and that's for [energy company] Chevron. He'll take Greenland for minerals. He's a criminal."

Director Joachim Trier, a Danish-Norweigan civilian, echoed the concern, saying, "I agree with Stellan that it's an absurd notion, and international law must be respected, because grinding that down will have such tremendous domino effects..." Deadline reported the European Union would hold an emergency meeting over this "blackmail" today, and the story notes that Mark Ruffalo and Judd Apatow also criticized Trump's ambitions at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards last weekend, with Apatow saying the US was "a dictatorship now."

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Politics, Stellan Skarsgård, Donald Trump, Greenland, Denmark, European Union