“You will have a government that will look at the world as it is and not as it wishes it to be,” Van Weel said this week. Van Weel is a member of the liberal VVD party, which has joined with Jetten’s centrist D66 and the CDA christian democrats to form what will be a minority government. Jetten has not yet decided his new cabinet, though Van Weel is open to continuing in his role. The damage Trump’s Greenland demands have done to transatlantic trust is real: “I think that is undeniable,” he said. So whether or not there is trust, I think that is something we need to work on, but we need each other.”