President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising promise to dispatch U.S. Navy hospital ships to Greenland didn’t come from a Pentagon briefing or a State Department strategy session—but a casual conversation from a bricklayer that snowballed its way to the Oval Office.
Jørgen Boassen, a 52-year-old Greenlandic construction worker and outspoken Trump supporter, told The Wall Street Journal he was the unlikely spark behind the president’s sudden weekend declaration that America would send floating medical facilities to the Arctic island.
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