“I don’t know who he is, I don’t know anything about him, but he’s going to be in big trouble.” , Prime Minister of Greenland, the territory that has been put between his eyebrows. Territory that is an autonomous island, but dependent on Denmark.
“Greenland does not want anyone to own it or anyone to control it. If right now we had to choose between the US and Denmark, then we would choose Denmark,” Nielsen defended a couple of days ago alongside the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen.
At that appearance, some were struck by the Greenlandic’s attire. While the Dane was wearing a formal jacket, by comparison Nielsen seemed ‘underdressed’ with a kind of deep blue sweatshirt. But nothing of that.
an expert in non-verbal political communication, has explained on her X account what the garment chosen by Nielsen actually is and what powerful message she is sending with it.
A traditional garment with formal range
“In reality, it is a kind of anorak typical of the Inuit people (roots, belonging, patriotism),” said the politics and fashion specialist.
In March 2025 the British newspaper The Independent He went so far as to point out in an article that when he saw his predecessor, Kim Kielsen, at an official event wearing that outfit and then looked ‘silly’ when he found out that it is a modern version of the traditional Greenlandic outfit, the anorak.
A spokesperson for the embassy in London clarified to the newspaper, as they pointed out, that the anorak “should be considered as respectful and formal as a suit.” “When Kim Kielsen’s party won the election by a narrow margin, he wore a similar blue anorak,” they recalled.
A blue that is not at all casual
Returning to Patrycia Centeno’s thread, the journalist analyzes that Nielsen, who usually wears this garment in navy blue, “a more sober and institutional color for a ruler,” wore one with an intense and striking tone.
Again, it is not a coincidence. The expert recalls that “in the Greenland shield, the polar bear is bathed in the blue of the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. Therefore, the blue serves to defend the island’s natural resources.”
Furthermore, the blue evoked that of the flag of the European Union; “protection,” she emphasizes, highlighting that it conveyed a message “as coherent as it was firm and forceful.”
Measure power through clothing
Can the curl be curled? Of course. Centeno also notes that this blue is the opposite “to the red of Trump’s everlasting (Republican) tie and his MAGA cap. The blue (water, calm, wisdom) to extinguish the red (fire, anger, passion).”
The expert leaves one last reflection about the rejection that Trump feels for those who do not wear a suit. For example, Zelensky with his military clothing, which he ended up jumping through hoops and putting on a suit to reduce tensions when meeting with the American.
“Zelensky’s stylistic submission does not mean that it has brought him better treatment from Trump. If the Greenlandic leader has any chance of getting out of this confrontation alive, it is by standing up and wearing his blue anorak,” says Centeno.
