Overview
- Witnesses from the meeting say Graham addressed Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen as “little lady” and mock‑yawned at Greenland’s Jens‑Frederik Nielsen.
- Puck first reported a combative, profanity‑filled tirade, later corroborated to Scripps News by a U.S. senator who heard colleagues’ accounts.
- The exchange occurred during a Munich Security Conference meeting focused on Trump’s threats to acquire or assert control over Greenland.
- Sources told Scripps News the anger targeted Trump’s restraint on Iran and Russia, a characterization Graham’s spokesperson called “categorically false” while declining to discuss his conduct.
- Graham separately told POLITICO, “Who gives a s*** who owns Greenland,” and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis publicly rebuked dismissing Greenland’s sovereignty.