'Final proof that he has gone mad': Denmark mocks Trump's reported desire to buy Greenland
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Source: raw story
Published 6 hours ago on August 16, 2019
Amid reports that President Donald Trump has directed aides to examine whether the United States can purchase Greenland—an autonomous territory of Denmark—Danish lawmakers on Friday condemned the idea as both absurd and “grotesque.”
“If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof that he has gone mad,” Soren Espersen, foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People’s Party, told local broadcaster DR. “The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.”
“We are talking about real people and you can’t just sell Greenland like an old colonial power. But what we can take seriously is that the U.S. stakes and interest in the Arctic is significantly on the rise.”
—Martin Lidegaard, Danish Social Liberal Party
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland Thursday night..........................
...........Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, Danish MP from Greenland’s second-largest party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), told Reuters on Friday that she is “sure a majority in Greenland believes it is better to have a relation to Denmark than the United States, in the long-term.”..................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/final-proof-that-he-has-gone-mad-denmark-mocks-trumps-reported-desire-to-buy-greenland/
Trump sure put his foot in his mouth on this one.
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