Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’

Conservative communities accept president's arguments for why the US needs the Arctic island as genuine

Owen Strickland's life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics. But this particular moment has been giving his political science degree - with a concentration in national security policy and international relations - a workout.

Donald Trump's call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president's supporters in conservative communities - to the degree that this issue has their attention at all - are apt to accept his political argument as genuine.